Bug#373154: rhythmbox: bitrate of MP3 files always "Unknown"

[Chris Roddy]

Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> Is this still a problem on up to date unstable or testing? I have no problems 
> getting Rhythmbox to display the bitrate for the file you attached.

Yes, I'm afraid it is, however, it only occurs on my amd64 unstable
system. The exact same files which are reported as "Unknown" there show
with the correct bitrates on my i386 unstable system.

In both systems, the version of rhythmbox is 0.9.6-4.


> Can you run this command and report the output?
> "gst-launch-0.10 -t filesrc location=/path/to/song.mp3 ! decodebin ! fakesink"

Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
FOUND TAG      : found by element "id3demux0".
           title: song for the two mile linear particle accelerator,
stanford university, stanford, california
          artist: man or astro man (live)
           album: 2000-11-01 - maida vale bbc studios
            date: 2000-01-01
    track number: 3
           genre: Live
        duration: 191000000000
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstSystemClock
Got EOS from element "pipeline0".
Execution ended after 11462462000 ns.
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...


> Also, what gstreamer plugins and what versions of them are installed on your 
> system? You can find out by running  "dpkg -l | grep gstreamer0.10"

gstreamer0.10-alsa                      0.10.10-2
gstreamer0.10-doc                       0.10.10-2
gstreamer0.10-esd                       0.10.4-3
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg                    0.10.1-2
gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3               0.10.2.debian
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs                  0.10.10-2
gstreamer0.10-gnonlin                   0.10.6-2
gstreamer0.10-gnonlin-dev               0.10.6-2
gstreamer0.10-lame                      0.10.4-0.0
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad               0.10.3-3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base              0.10.10-2
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps         0.10.10-2
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-doc          0.10.10-2
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good              0.10.4-3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-doc          0.10.4-3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly              0.10.4-4
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-doc          0.10.4-4
gstreamer0.10-tools                     0.10.10-2
gstreamer0.10-x                         0.10.10-2
libgstreamer0.10-0                      0.10.10-2
libgstreamer0.10-dev                    0.10.10-2


Thanks for checking up on this. Your work in maintaining the package is
much appreciated!


-- 
Chris Roddy
croddy at emory.edu

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