[solved] Banshee / Jack audio problem?

[dlalias2k1]

Hi, So I really like a app to act as an audio organizer. I was looking at banshee since rhythmbox seems to be lagging behind in feature development. Banshee will launch, and I can add files to it, however when I try to play a audio track blinks once like it's starting playback and then abruptly returns back like the song is complete.

Launching Banshee from the commandline, I get this message when trying to play a track:
[Error 16:54:08.548] GStreamer resource error: NotFound
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started

Seems like it's trying to output to Jack audio server, which I never installed, nor would I want to. Anyone know how to change it to use alsa, or fix it otherwise(If i've misdiagnosed the problem, or if you have a feature complete alternative. I considered Amarok, but on lxde the KDE libs might be defeat the purpose of running LXDE)

Thanks!

[timc]

I had the same error message a few days ago. I gave up trying to use Xnoise and switched to Audacious and got around whatever the problem was (I didn't have Jack, either, and still don't). Since then, I added vlc, which also works well.

Tim

[timc]

I had the same error message a few days ago. I gave up trying to use Xnoise and switched to Audacious and got around whatever the problem was (I didn't have Jack, either, and still don't). Since then, I added vlc, which also works well.

I also installed some additional gstreamer libraries, but I don't think they were relevant to the solution. gstreamer0.10-plugins-good and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

Tim

edited by cryptosteve: quote fixed

[dlalias2k1]

Hey Timc,

Thanks man, I think you may be right on the ugly plugins bit. I installed clementine and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly and then banshee playback started working. I had the good and bad plugins in, but didn't think ugly would be required. That missing seems to be the common thread.

[tuxracer]

xnoise didn't work either for any audio file.

I asked in irc and an irc channel for xfce but I couldn't obtain any help.

I am not sure but I think I recalled some comment about logging out or rebooting after making some changes (i.e. installing gstreamer-related packages).

I think that did the trick.  

Anyone want to explain what happens there?  Does something get loaded or re-loaded only from a log-out or re-boot?


I did add one of the sections, too, though.  I now have -base, -good, -bad and -ugly sections installed.  I am not sure if all are needed but I thought it wouldn't hurt.