Comment 48 for bug 1200818

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KruyKaze (kruykaze) wrote : Re: [Bug 1200818] Re: Google music stoppped playing any songs

My bad I thought I needed to disable it in "music labs".
It is working now awesome!
On Jul 30, 2013 1:40 AM, "Jiří Janoušek" <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:07 AM, KruyKaze <email address hidden> wrote:
> > Still broken on my Ubuntu 13.04 64bit system.
> > Log: http://pastebin.com/P54Lzcvy
>
> Are you sure you have turned HTML5 backend off in Nuvola Player
> preferences (menu Application → Preferences → tab Service → turn off
> HTML5 Audio and menu Go → Refresh)? I cannot see it in the log.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1200818
>
> Title:
> Google music stoppped playing any songs
>
> Status in Nuvola Player:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Issue
> =====
>
> Google Play Music suddenly stopped playing music and shows spinning
> arrow regardless if HTML5 audio is on or off. Other services do work.
>
> The issue seems to occur only on newer systems (Ubuntu 13.04, Arch
> Linux, Fedora 19) and is not reproducible on older systems (Ubuntu
> 12.04 & 12.10, Debian 7).
>
> Status
> ======
>
> The cause of the issue is known, but no working workaround has been
> found yet.
>
> Background
> ==========
>
> Google Play Music recently introduced a mechanism to check support of
> HTML5 Audio technology. It tries to play a particular MP3 file encoded
> in data uri. Unfortunately, the playback request never finishes
> because of the bug #1204672 in GStreamer 1.0.x (both GStreamer 0.10.x
> and current development branch do work) and Google Play shows spinning
> arrow forever. This check is always performed regardless if HTML5
> audio is on or off in Music labs settings.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer1.0/+bug/1204672
>
> As a workaround, it is possible to make GStreamer backend non-
> functional by specifying fake plugin path, so Google Play Music falls
> back to Flash plugin based playback:
>
> GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH=/dev/null GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/dev/null
> nuvolaplayer
>
> Unfortunately, the NSPlugin Viewer crashes during loading of Google
> Play Music web interface:
>
> *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: rpc_end_sync called when not in sync!
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Original report
> ===============
>
> It was working yesterday. I have been using HTML5 before. Tried both
> HTML5 ON and OFF , installed the unstable from PPA, tried stable with
> nuvolaplayer-flashplugin , reset and purged everything and tried
> different things for hours . Still fails to play any song.
>
> Currently on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit Nuvolaplayer 2.0.4 and GoogleMusic 3.21
> . Let me know if you need more info.
> Thanks.
>
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