[Bug 61683] Error loading files : not an audio stream

[Carthik Sharma]

Public bug reported:

I tried to load a directory with a few songs (.mp3) into rhythmbox.
Rhythmbox errors out with the message shown in screenshot that I will
attach shortly.

The error message is, "This file is not an audio stream".

The output of $rhtyhmbox -- debug" will also be attached shortly.

All of the mp3 files plays just fine with mplayer from the command line.

The following is the output of $mplayer Sundari.mp3

carthik at gabriel:~/media/music/rahman/06 Kannathil Muthamittal $ mplayer Sundari.mp3
MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Celeron 4 Northwood; Pentium 4 EE/Xeon Prestonia,Gallatin (Family: 15, Stepping: 4)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.


91 audio & 204 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing Sundari.mp3.
Audio file file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 44100 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/60208 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le...
Video: no video
Starting playback...

Now for the output of $file:
carthik at gabriel:~/media/music/rahman/06 Kannathil Muthamittal $ file Sundari.mp3
Sundari.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 128 kBits, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo

carthik at gabriel:~ $ apt-cache show rhythmbox && apt-cache policy rhythmbox
Package: rhythmbox
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 6332
Maintainer: Loic Minier <lool at dooz.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9
Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.12.1-4ubuntu1), libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.0), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.9), libavahi-glib1 (>= 0.6.0), libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.13.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.5.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.0.2-2), libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.60), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.60), libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd0 (>= 0.2.35), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.10-1), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.13.5), libgcrypt11 (>= 1.2.2), libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.10.0), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 0.4.3), libgnome2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.11.1), libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.13.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.13.92-0ubuntu4), libgnutls12 (>= 1.2.5), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.1), libgpod0, libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.5), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libhal1 (>= 0.5), libice6, libjpeg62, liblaunchpad-integration0 (>= 0.0patch26), libmusicbrainz4c2a (>= 2.1.2), libnautilus-burn3, libnotify1, liborbit2 (>= 1:2.10.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.12.2), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libpopt0 (>= 1.7), libsm6, libsoup2.2-8 (>= 2.2.92), libtasn1-2 (>= 0.2.13), libtotem-plparser1, libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxi6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.24), libxrandr2, libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), dbus, gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs, gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, libgstreamer0.10-0, gstreamer0.10-alsa | gstreamer0.10-audiosink
Recommends: scrollkeeper, yelp, avahi-daemon, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
Filename: pool/main/r/rhythmbox/rhythmbox_0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9_i386.deb
Size: 1801486
MD5sum: eb5ec9412ae8550e075f651e08d39132
Description: music player and organizer for GNOME
 Rhythmbox is a very easy to use music playing and management program
 which supports a wide range of audio formats (including mp3 and ogg).
 The current version also supports Internet Radio, iPod integration,
 Audio CD burning, and metadata editing.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop

rhythmbox:
  Installed: 0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9
  Candidate: 0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


I do have all the plugins installed to listen to mp3s.
Please let me know if you need any more info.
Thank you.

** Affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Error loading files : not an audio stream
https://launchpad.net/bugs/61683