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Nuvola dependency: gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio

 

Hey folks! I'm a huge fan of nuvola player, and have been squirming for a
few weeks now after my upgrade to Kubuntu 13.04 because it mysteriously
stopped working. It would run normally, but was unable to play music. The
music time indicator would not progress and after a while it would skip the
song. I found several seemingly relevant bug reports existing, but none of
the fixes (installing gstreamer plugins et al) helped the situation. I also
tried toggling flash playback on and off in the Google Music Labs settings
and a variety of other things to no avail. Finally, I ran it from my
terminal and got an interesting error message that repeated as as it tried
to play:

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started

Following the lead, I went about installing jack on my system (kubuntu
doesn't use it by default for anything) and figured out how to get it set
up. Once I had a jack server running, nuvola player _thought_ it was
playing music. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the jack server to connect to
pulseaudio during my hour of fiddling to be sure, but I'm nearly positive
the issue was simply missing a sound sink. At that point, I removed jack
and set about exploring my gstreamer installation to see if I could figure
out the issue. I already knew my system had recently installed gstreamer
1.0, so I explored the available packages related to it. I found
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio and discovered that for some inexplicable reason,
it was not installed. Once I installed it, nuvola player began working
again like a champ.

Hope that helps others who were feeling crazy when the music stopped
playing. Cheers!

Joshua Cole

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