I have built Gentoo workstation with KDE on Intel Pentium 4 with 64-bit mode support and noticed that noatun and kaboodle silently refused to play MP3 files, but play WAV and OGG files without problems. Of course, aRts have been compiled with mp3 USE-flag, and according to ldd artsd depends on libmad. In text mode mpg123 and madplay play MP3 files without problems. I tried to start arts in text mode with debug information (artsd -l 0 -a alsa and artsd -l 0 -a oss) and run artsplay File.mp3 on the second terminal. The output of aRts as well as emerge --info follow. [12:33]:apl@wave:~>artsd -l 0 -a alsa artsd version is 1.5.2 gsl: using Unix98 pthreads directly for mutexes and conditions [artsd: 7096] SoundServerStartup --> got lock ALSA driver: default buffering: 7 fragments with 940 bytes (audio latency is 37.3 ms) Closing ALSA-driver virtualize StereoVolumeControl ALSA driver: default buffering: 7 fragments with 940 bytes (audio latency is 37.3 ms) audio format is 44100 Hz, 16 bits, 2 channels addDirectory(/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/mcop,) addDirectory(/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/mcop/Arts,Arts) addDirectory(/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/mcop/Arts/Environment,Arts::Environment) addDirectory(/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/mcop/Noatun,Noatun) addDirectory(/home/apl/.mcop/trader-cache,) Arts::MidiManager registered successfully. [artsd: 7096] SoundServerStartup <-- released lock UnixManager: got notifyIO socketconnection created, fd = 13 search playobject, extension = mp3 creating Arts::GSLPlayObject to play file /home/apl/DiskotekaAvaria-EsliHocheshOstansya.mp3 GSLPlayObject: loadMedia('/home/apl/DiskotekaAvaria-EsliHocheshOstansya.mp3') couldn't load file /home/apl/DiskotekaAvaria-EsliHocheshOstansya.mp3 Synth_PLAY: closing audio fd Closing ALSA-driver [12:34]:apl@wave:~> [12:34]:apl@wave:~>artsd -l 0 -a oss artsd version is 1.5.2 gsl: using Unix98 pthreads directly for mutexes and conditions [artsd: 7100] SoundServerStartup --> got lock device capabilities: revision1 realtime trigger mmap buffering: 7 fragments with 1024 bytes (audio latency is 40.6 ms) virtualize StereoVolumeControl device capabilities: revision1 realtime trigger mmap buffering: 7 fragments with 1024 bytes (audio latency is 40.6 ms) audio format is 44100 Hz, 16 bits, 2 channels addDirectory(/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/mcop,) addDirectory(/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/mcop/Arts,Arts) addDirectory(/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/mcop/Arts/Environment,Arts::Environment) addDirectory(/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/mcop/Noatun,Noatun) addDirectory(/home/apl/.mcop/trader-cache,) Arts::MidiManager registered successfully. [artsd: 7100] SoundServerStartup <-- released lock UnixManager: got notifyIO socketconnection created, fd = 12 search playobject, extension = mp3 creating Arts::GSLPlayObject to play file /home/apl/DiskotekaAvaria-EsliHocheshOstansya.mp3 GSLPlayObject: loadMedia('/home/apl/DiskotekaAvaria-EsliHocheshOstansya.mp3') couldn't load file /home/apl/DiskotekaAvaria-EsliHocheshOstansya.mp3 Synth_PLAY: closing audio fd [12:34]:apl@wave:~> [12:27]:wave:~:#:>emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Last Sync: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:00:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="ru" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cracklib crypt dlloader dri elibc_glibc fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux linguas_ru lzw-tiff mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl oss pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 readline reflection session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userland_GNU userlocales video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa xorg xpm xscreensaver xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY [12:27]:wave:~:#:>
Is this still an issue with arts-3.5.5?
Well, too much time have passed. I noticed this bug when I was setting up Linux workstation for our customer who needed it to run some scientific software written in Fortran. I waited three days and saw no reaction on my bug report. When I unmerged noatun, installed audacious which plays MP3 files very well, and shipped workstation to the customer. So now I have no hardware to check out aRts 3.5. You may close the bug as non-reproducible.
Closing...
