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

[Sven Arvidsson]

> I'm afraid the problem is still persisting even with the latest
> gstreamer and rhythmbox packages from sid (the complete list of
> installed versions follows at the end of this message). I recursively
> removed ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox and ran 'gconftool-2 --recursive-unset
> /apps/rhythmbox' to remove my existing preferences before testing.
> 
> I've attached a test file, encoded from a WAV file, decoded from the
> FLAC file for "Song for the Two Mile Linear Particle Accelerator",
> available at: http://www.archive.org/details/moam2000-11-01.flac16 (I
> hope I have taken sufficient care to find freely redistributable test
> content; if not, I apologize).
> 
> moam2000-11-01d1t03-V6.mp3 was encoded using 'lame -V6 infile.wav',
> using version 3.97-0.0 from the LAME package at debian-multimedia.org.
> On my system, the file displays with 'Unknown' in the Quality field
> after being added to the rhythmbox library.
> 
> The properties window for the file in nautilus identifies it as MPEG 1
> Layer 3 VBR at 132kbps. This is consistent with the output from LAME
> after encoding.
> 
> If there's anything else I can do, please let me know.

Hi,

Sorry, I missed your reply until now. 

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.

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

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"

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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