QuodLibet music player needs mp3 decoder?

lazylew

I have installed Quod Libet.
In the library when I search for FLAC, it presents flac files that will play when chosen.
All other tracks in mp3 give me this Playback Error:

No GStreamer element found to handle media format. Media format: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder.

Giskard

You probably need to install gstreamer1-plugins-mpg123

When installing py311-quodlibet from the command line, at the end it says:

Message from py311-quodlibet-4.6.0:

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Consider to install the following ports to support additional audio formats:

* multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-faad : AAC audio support
* multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-flac : FLAC audio support
* multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-mpg123 : MP3 audio support
* multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-ogg : Ogg audio support
* multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-speex : Speex audio support
* multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-vorbis : Vorbis audio support
* multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-wavpack : WAV audio support
* multimedia/gstreamer1-libav : Many more audio (e.g., WMA) support

Some Quodlibet plugins require additional ports to be installed:

* audio/py-musicbrainzngs : for Musicbrainz plugin
* devel/py-pyinotify : for audio library update plugin
* www/webkit2-gtk3 : for lyrics window plugin

lazylew

Thank you Giskard, that worked great :-)

Giskard

Also, if you need the intenet radio, podcast and soundcloud features of quodlibet, install gstreamer1-plugins-neon. 😉

vimanuelt

If you'd like to see a music player with GStreamer plugins included by default, please consider submitting a feature request.

ericbsd

I think an improvement we could make to Software Station is to display the software message if there is one.

vimanuelt

That is a good idea. Providing a summary in a pop-up window for the user to read would be helpful.