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gst-plugins-ugly0.10 package

Can't play free format MP3

Bug #49522 reported by Paulo J. S. Silva
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gst-plugins-ugly0.10 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

Gstreamer 0.10 can not play freeformat mp3 (gstreamer 0.8 with the mad plugin can read them well, as well as mpg321).

It is simple to reproduce:

1) Rip any music to wav in /tmp

2) Compress it with lame using the --freeformat option:

   lame --freeformat -b 128 my_music.wav

3) Try to play it using gstreamer:

   gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///tmp/my_music.wav.mp3

If you want I can upload a short mp3 sample that presents the problem.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote : Re: [Bug 49522] Can't play free format MP3

> If you want I can upload a short mp3 sample that presents the problem.

Please do.

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Paulo J. S. Silva (pjssilva) wrote : MP3 generated with lame and --freeformat flag

Here is a short sample that presents the problem described in the bug report.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. That works fine for me, can you attach the output of
  dpkg -l gstreamer0.10\* | grep ^ii

to the bug report?

Changed in gst-plugins-ugly0.10:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Untriaged → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Paulo J. S. Silva (pjssilva) wrote :

Here goes the requested information.

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

I have the same gstreamer packages installed and uninstalled the ones that you do not have.

Although it works for me like a charm.

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Paulo J. S. Silva (pjssilva) wrote :

What you mean with "works for me like a charm"? It sounds good for you?

I have tried in three different computers (two AMD desktop systems and a old pentium III laptop with Xubuntu) and it sound horrible, with very weird noises. When I play it using mpg321 (instead of a gstremer based player), it sound *completely* different, without any weird artifacts.

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James Stansell (jamesstansell) wrote :

I'm using 6.06.1 and that file will play (sounds like some guitar plucking) in VLC and Audacity, but gstreamer-based programs won't play it at all.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

do you still have that problem?

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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

Works fine in feisty... closing as fixed.

Changed in gst-plugins-ugly0.10:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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Paulo J. S. Silva (pjssilva) wrote :

I have downloaded feisty today and I can confirm the bug is fixed. Great.

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