Re: Rhythmbox Problems

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 14:28 -0700, lawrence goodman wrote:
> I just installed rhythmbox 0.5.3-0-ximian on my system
> along with Ximian's gstreamer and gstreamer-plugin
> stuff.
> 
> At first I was getting an error message that the
> "spider element" was not installed when I tried to
> click on an Internet radio station. Now, with the
> adding on of gstreamer that error msg is gone, but
> when I try to add an mp3 to my library, I get the
> following msg:
> Gtk-Message: The filename "Music The Cello Suites -
> Inspired by Bach--Disc 1 Suite No. 3, Pr\351lude Yo-Yo
> Ma.mp3" couldn't be converted to UTF-8 (try setting
> the environment variable G_BROKEN_FILENAMES): Invalid
> byte sequence in conversion input
> Gtk-Message: The filename "Music The Cello Suites -
> Inspired by Bach--Disc 1 Suite No. 3, Bourr\351e Yo-Yo
> Ma" couldn't be converted to UTF-8 (try setting the
> environment variable G_BROKEN_FILENAMES): Invalid byte
> sequence in conversion input
> 
> The app also crashes when I click on some, though not
> all, of the radio station selections. 
> 
> Anyone know how to get the mp3 library stuff working.
> I read that I need to add on a certain plug-in, but
> which?
> 
> Thanks.
> Lawrence
> 
> PS: I absolutely love XD2. Rescued me from KDE hell
> and I'm very grateful.

This would be on SuSE Linux 8.2, with packages from the xd-unstable
channel? It might be worth upgrading to 9.0, for which xd-unstable is
more actively maintained.

I have no idea what to do about mp3 plugins, though.  Because of patent
issues, we can't provide those.

-Mark Gordon

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