{7.10-8.04} Banshee Not Playing

[IncomingFire]

After a 7.10 to 8.04 upgrade Banshee no longer plays, MPLayer will play music, but Banshee will not play the files. When the play button is pushed it flips to the pause button as would be expected but the progress bar never moves and no audio is played. I've tried removing and with --purge from the command line and then reinstalling and still no luck, am I maybe missing a dependency that was broken during the upgrade??? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

EDIT: Also neither Totem nor Kaffeine are working in the same manner, hit the play button no audio and the progress bar never moves.

[iaculallad]

Try uninstalling it from Synaptics, then Re-install it again with Synaptics.

System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager then search for Banshee.
This could solve dependency problems if present.

[IncomingFire]

That was the first step before I tried from command line with apt-get remove and then apt-get remove --purge. I also removed the .config/banshee directory in my home directory.

[iaculallad]

Try removing hidden Banshee directories in /home/~/ look in .gconfig/apps/ and .config then try reinstalling it again with Synaptics.

[IncomingFire]

Done again... still no change.

[iaculallad]

Could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list. Maybe you're still using 7.04's repo.

[IncomingFire]

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071017)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main multiverse restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
# deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt gutsy main

#AUTOMATIX REPOS START

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-backports main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
#AUTOMATIX REPOS END

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

# deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
# deb http://www.symfony-project.org/get debian/

# deb http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/debian stable contrib

[iaculallad]

Good so far and now I can't think of any possible solutions for Banshee :( Try googling for some solutions and when you find one, do post it here for others to use. Or try to wait for other responses, maybe, they know of a solution or experienced your situation. Goodluck.

[IncomingFire]

Hahah well, I don't post a new thread unless Google leaves me empty. :(

The worst part is its not even just Banshee, like I said in my edit its affecting other media players as well....

I guess I'll do more Google whoring and see what I can find.

[legendmaker]

It's kind of a crappy idea, but usually reinstalling the os fixes these type of problems, although I would hate the thought of it too.

<edit> although I'm sure you've probably already thought of that.

[IncomingFire]

It's kind of a crappy idea, but usually reinstalling the os fixes these type of problems, although I would hate the thought of it too.

<edit> although I'm sure you've probably already thought of that.

Yeah I finally gave up and tried that a few days ago....same thing no fix.

I'm thinking I just need to buckle down and see if a hardware change is in order. I haven't bought a new sound card in years.