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SomeGuyDude
July 23rd, 2008, 01:43 PM
I've had this problem for months and have NEVER gotten a solution. Please, it's driving me insane.

I have MPD installed, and rather like it. I decided to try out Exaile. Installed from the repos, got all the Gstreamers and whatnot (restricted extras as well), and fired it up. Nothing.

The song sits at 0:00 and does not play. Nothing I do will make the song play. I seem to remember it worked the one time I installed it with MPD killed, but then if I started MPD up and later tried Exaile the problem came back.

What the hell is going on?:mad::mad:
cozmicharlie
July 23rd, 2008, 01:48 PM
Can you play the file from other players like Rythmbox? Did you install Exaile before you installed the codecs? If so you may want to try and reinstall it.
SomeGuyDude
July 23rd, 2008, 02:00 PM
Can you play the file from other players like Rythmbox? Did you install Exaile before you installed the codecs? If so you may want to try and reinstall it.

I can use Rhythmbox and MPD/Sonata just fine. It doesn't seem to matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall Exaile, it never starts any songs. Is there a conflict maybe?
cozmicharlie
July 23rd, 2008, 02:01 PM
A few other items to check. Do the file names have any spaces in them? If so change it so that they do not. I also read that Exaile has problems with unicode tags. You may want to check any tags and if they have unicode, change them.
EVA01
July 23rd, 2008, 02:27 PM
I actually have the same problem myself. Except, it does that for *all* my music programs, whether I use Amarok, Rhythmbox, or even the Totem Movie Player. It happens on and off too - like sometimes my music files will play, then other times they don't. Sometimes they stop working because of something like opening a Youtube video. Any thoughts?
cozmicharlie
July 23rd, 2008, 04:22 PM
I actually have the same problem myself. Except, it does that for *all* my music programs, whether I use Amarok, Rhythmbox, or even the Totem Movie Player. It happens on and off too - like sometimes my music files will play, then other times they don't. Sometimes they stop working because of something like opening a Youtube video. Any thoughts?

I do recall seeing a number of posts that state you can't have multiple sound apps running at the same time. I believe it is a problem with the Pulse Audio. If it is only happening when you have other sound apps running that is probably what the problem is.