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[Jiří Janoušek <janousek.jiri@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joshua,

thanks for sharing your issue with Gstreamer 1.0 and identifying the
cause. I've reopened bug #1078705 and added information about
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio dependency. The Gst-0.1 to Gst-1.0 transition
is pretty annoying, any related information is very valuable.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nuvola-player/+bug/1078705

Regards,

Jiří Janoušek

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Josh Cole <joshuafcole@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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