Rhythmbox currently fails to play most "Radio" sources under default install due to lack of mms:// (gst-plugins-libmms) and http:// (gst-plugins-soup) dependency. These plugins are not pulled in by any other package, and need to be done so explicitly by rhythmbox or implicitly through gst-plugins-meta for Rhythmbox to function fully.
I have neither and http streams work just fine. Could you paste a few test urls ? Also the ebuilds clearly says it doesn't provide all dependencies to play music so I'm not sure we are going to change this before we get to bug #241674.
Hm.. It may be due to the redirects to mirror that's involved in the streams I'm listening to. Here they are: http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-vancouver.asx http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr2-vancouver.asx http://shoutcast1.cbcradio3.com
I think I'm hitting that bug on my laptop. I can't play internet radios anymore. I'll try to update RB to 0.12 first, see if that helps. I'll try gst-plugins-soup then. Thanks
I can't play last.fm streams anymore with rhythmbox 0.12.0. Installing gst-plugins-soup fixed this for me. Not sure what changed recently in rhythmbox that this is now needed. If anything this should probably be mentioned in the postinst message, since it's a regression from earlier versions that seemed to handle this directly?
rhythmbox-0.10.1-r1 RDEPENDs on >=net-libs/libsoup-2.2.99:2.2. The latest stable libsoup is 2.24.3. It seems like the libsoup dependency was moved out to gstreamer sometime around 0.11.
remi reported it with 0.11.99.3, upstream bug gives some clues about why it stopped working like this. We will change the ebuild when things get a bit sorted out.
If you don't have gst-plugins-soup, playbin will use the gnomevfs plugin instead, which may or may not work (doesn't for me). I suggest just adding the soup dep at least. As for the mms plugin, we should probably have a handler script that will tell the user which plugin to install.
added them to 0.12.1-r1, dropped gst-plugins-gnome-vfs even though I don't think it is the correct approach, upstream doesn't seem to be willing to/interested in fix it.
Thanks. Closing.
