Using: Rhythmbox 0.8.8 gstreamer and all needed plugins are those marked stable in portage. gnome 2.8 When playing internet radio streams rhythmbox 0.8.8 doesn't show song title. It did in the past, but I don't remember which version of RB. Probably it is a bug in the gstreamer backend. I tried to manually build RB using the xine backend but it always crashes when playing internet radios. This doesn't surprise too much, probably the xine backend in RB is deprecated. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge rhythmbox 2. play a shoutcast radio 3. Actual Results: The stream is played succesfully but the song title and all metadatas are not shown. Expected Results: I'd expect infos for the song currently played.
what versions of gstreamer, gst-plugins & gst-plugins-mad ? (update them to latest ~arch)
These are the versions I have installed. All of them are the latest available in portage: media-libs/gstreamer-0.8.7 media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.5-r1 media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.8.5
This happens to me as well, on two different machines, after upgrading to gnome 2.8. My gstreamer, plugins, etc are all up to the latest versions.
Digging around in the sources, I have tracked the metadata parsing to the gnomevfssrc gstreamer plugin. For some reason, it doesn't seem to be pulling the metadata from the stream, even though the iradio support has been turned on. If only gstreamer's debugging info wasn't so loquacious, I'd have an easier time of finding the audiocast debug messages in the noise. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good stream which has short songs (for frequent metadata)?
Ok, after some more digging I have found the solution: gnome-vfs 2.8.2 or later are needed to support the sending of additional headers for shoutcast metadata. Specifically, this gnome bug describes the issue: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150561
I can confirm this. Upgrading to the (masked) gnome-vfs-2.8.3 fixed the problem. Thanks for the help Eric!
Luca, please test with newer gnome-vfs. If fixed, please close bug. Thanks
I confirm the problem is solved using gnome-vfs-2.8.3-r1 Marking this bug as closed.
