Banshee does not play any music format

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Hi,

i am using openSuse 13.2 and want to use Banshee as musicplayer but it does not play any format. When i first start Banshee and try to play something i get this message: http://imgur.com/A1QpV0k

When i click on search button, the windows dissappears and nothing happens at all.

Now i looked up what could be the problem. Reinstalled codecs from this: http://opensuse-guide.org/codecs.php Does not help.
The i watched at gstreamer but all plugins i can think of and are listed in other threads to similar issues are already installed: gstreamer framework, plugins: good, bad, ugly, ffmpeg, base. gstreamer-fluendo-mp3 and some others.
I removed configfolger banshee-1 but thats not the problem. But what i found is a very long list of failures in the logfile: http://pastebin.com/yP5LdxdW
(Posted it to pastebin cause its to long for this thread, mostly glib-critical failures).

I also reinstalled all of it, Banshee, gstreamer and so on. I don’t know what i can do more, so please help me.
BTW, vlc is working fine, but uses other codecs afaik.

So thanks for the help in advance,

Ace

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Banshee still uses gstreamer-0_10, so you have to have the necessary plugins installed for that, in particular:
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-orig-addon, gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg, gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3

If you have them, try to do a “full repository vendor change update” to Packman, maybe you have some gstreamer-0_10 packages from the standard repo, causing a problem:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Vendor_change_update#Full_repository_Vendor_change

And remove the gstreamer cache: (as user)

rm -r ~/.gstreamer-0.10

If it still doesn’t work, please post your repo list:

zypper lr -d
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The plugins were already installed but i did a vendor change and deleted the cache, didn’t help. :frowning:

Here is the repo list:

#  | Alias                              | Name                                 | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                   | Service
---+------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
 1 | Packman Repository                 | Packman Repository (codec install)   | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/openSUSE_13.2/              |        
 2 | VLC                                | VLC                                  | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/13.2                        |        
 3 | download.opensuse.org-13.2-non-oss | Update Repository (Non-Oss)          | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non-oss/                     |        
 4 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss      | Main Repository (NON-OSS)            | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/non-oss/          |        
 5 | download.opensuse.org-oss          | Main Repository (OSS)                | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/              |        
 6 | download.opensuse.org-update       | Main Update Repository               | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2/                             |        
 7 | games:tools                        | Added for Steam                      | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:/tools/openSUSE_13.2/ |        
 8 | google-chrome                      | google-chrome                        | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64                   |        
 9 | libdvdcss repository               | libdvdcss repository (codec install) | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/13.2/                                  |        
10 | openSUSE-13.2-0                    | openSUSE-13.2-0                      | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | hd:///?device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1PHISON_USB3-part2                 |        
11 | openSUSEKernel_Stable              | openSUSEKernel Stable                | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/    |        
12 | repo-debug                         | openSUSE-13.2-Debug                  | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/        |        
13 | repo-debug-update                  | openSUSE-13.2-Update-Debug           | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.2/                       |        
14 | repo-debug-update-non-oss          | openSUSE-13.2-Update-Debug-Non-Oss   | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.2-non-oss/               |        
15 | repo-source                        | openSUSE-13.2-Source                 | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/       |
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You should never have both the Packman and the VLC repo active. This will break your multimedia sooner or later, as both contain the same libraries in different, possibly incompatible, versions.

Remove the VLC repo, and do the vendor switch update again:

sudo zypper rr 2
sudo zypper dup --from 1

You don’t miss anything when you don’t have the VLC repo. Everything in there is also available from Packman and the libdvdcss repo, even vlc-beta since recently…

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Did so, does not help.

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Have you tried to remove the gstreamer cache again afterwards?

Sorry, no idea then. I don’t use banshee myself, but I installed it now and it seems to work fine. (I only tried to play one mp3 though)

I don’t see anything wrong in your logfile eiter. There are just some messages about bad encoding for some video files.

Try to run banshee in a terminal window, choose “Open Location” in the “Media” menu and open an mp3 file.
Does it work, or do you still get that missing plugin window? Do you get any error message in the terminal?
And please verify that you really have gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3 installed:

rpm -qi gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3
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The gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3 is installed. Yes i deleted the cache. But i found another plugin called gstreamer-0_10-plugins-fluendo-mp3 but it is reported as not working with gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3. Is it correct? I tried both standing alone but does not work.

It still does not work. The missing plugin window only comes once until next reboot but yes.

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That’s the open source version and it replaces the other one, so you cannot have both.

I would prefer the proprietary version gstreamer-0_10_fluendo-mp3. It’s newer and has better performance AFAIK.

It still does not work. The missing plugin window only comes once until next reboot but yes.

Hm. It should work, and it does here.
Maybe try to remove gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg. I’ve seen it causing problems. But I do have it installed.

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Ok, i reinstalled all that ****. Restarted. Works now. Thank you for your help.