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How to disable plugins auto search at startup?

Asked by Alexey Osipov

When I start rhythmbox each time it scans my music collection and tries to find plugins for some not-playable (such as application/x-mswinurl) files.
It display message "Search for suitable plugin?" and if I click Yes it found nothing.
This message appear several times per collection scan because of several files of that kind.
All gstreamer-[good,bad,ugly,ffmpeg] packages are installed.
At next rhythmbox startup everything happen again.
So how can I disable plugin search function at startup?

(Ubuntu 9.04 beta if it makes sense)

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Are you trying to stream media?

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Alexey Osipov (lion-simba) said : 		#2

What do you mean?

I simply run rhythmbox and listening to music.

At startup it rescans disk folder with my music and display above message for some non-playable files in it. One message for one non-playable type. What is non-playable file? It is file, which is not intended to be playable, such as song lyrics text file or an internet-link file, or maybe some cover art pictures...

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zenith (lasse-bigum) said : 		#3

An example I can elaborate with is also .m3u files.

I got this also, and it becomes somewhat annoying when it turns out that it cannot find the plug-in, and continues to ask for every reboot.

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Alexey Osipov (lion-simba) said : 		#4

I still need an answer.

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Gary Saunders (m0ibus) said : 		#5

Hi, to add my voice,
I had a the same "annoyance" with Rhythmbox on Hardy 8.10.
I recently upgraded to Jaunty 9.04 and the behaviour has worsened.

Now when I start Rhythmbox it gives the same "Search for suitable plugin?" message, if I click "Search" it searches and finds no updates and then the same message pops up. If I click "No" the message closes and reopens again. On 8.10 it only popped up when I initially started Rhythmbox. Clicking "No" would get rid of it.

It doesn't interfere with playback as it's not a modal window - I just send it to the back and play the music - but it is annoying and I'd like to remove it if possible.

I'm running Jaunty 9.04 on an AMD64 processor.
Appreciate Jaunty is only Beta - only mentioning it as I had the same problem under 8.10.

Happy to attach any files you think may be useful.

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Alexey Osipov (lion-simba) said : 		#6

I still need an answer.

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slamdunk (antongiulio05) said : 		#7

same problem for me. Sometime it happens for totem too (rarely). I'm using Jaunty as well.

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Alexey Osipov (lion-simba) said : 		#8

I still need an answer.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#9

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felixq78 (felixq78) said : 		#10

I have the same problem, everytime I run rythymbox.

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knarf (launchpad-ubuntu-f) said : 		#11

just purge the gnome-codec-install package:

sudo dpkg -P gnome-codec-install

or

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge gnome-codec-install

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karl (klive77) said : 		#12

I am running rhythmbox on 11.04 and have the same problem, it searches for files and finds a bunch of large .dat files I have of digitized data from lab experiments and then hangs on these forever.

I tried knarf's solution and it didn't help