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[Locked] MusicPlayer -- Does not track player in Ubuntu 12.04
amites English 7 amites [Read]
07 June 2012 à 18:28

amites, Friday 01 June 2012 à 19:22


Subscription date : 04 April 2012
Messages : 11
Not sure if this is a bug or something I have misconfigured.

Ran into this same issue before in 11.10 where it was a matter of changing the program name to lower case from Rhythmbox to rhythmbox and the same with banshee.

Have tried both variations and tinkered with a few different things to no avail. When set to lower case it will open the program and act as a launcher where if I click on the icon it will bring up the window but does not track the currently playing song.

The odd part is that it will pickup the first song to play and then stop tracking without ever switching to the CD case icon

Any ideas?

amites, Friday 01 June 2012 à 19:27


Subscription date : 04 April 2012
Messages : 11
Some debugging details:

$ cairo-dock -l debug --colors | sed -n "/musicPlayer\// {N;p;}"
cairo_dock_instanciate_module (/home/alvin/.config/cairo-dock/current_theme/plug-ins/musicPlayer/musicPlayer.conf)
message : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-3.0.0.1/src/gldit/cairo-dock-packages.c:cairo_dock_get_package_path:766)
cairo_dock_get_package_path (/usr/share/cairo-dock/plug-ins/musicPlayer/themes, /home/alvin/.config/cairo-dock/extras/musicPlayer, musicPlayer)
message : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.0.0.1/musicPlayer/src/applet-init.c:init:67)
init (/home/alvin/.config/cairo-dock/current_theme/plug-ins/musicPlayer/musicPlayer.conf)
debug : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.0.0.1/musicPlayer/src/applet-rhythmbox.c:cd_musicplayer_register_rhythmbox_handler:336)
debug : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.0.0.1/musicPlayer/src/applet-musicplayer.c:cd_musicplayer_set_current_handler:435)
cd_musicplayer_set_current_handler (rhythmbox)
debug : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.0.0.1/musicPlayer/src/applet-draw.c:cd_musicplayer_apply_status_surface:204)
cd_musicplayer_apply_status_surface (0)
debug : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.0.0.1/musicPlayer/src/applet-musicplayer.c:_on_detect_handler:407)
org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox presence on the bus: 0
message : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.0.0.1/musicPlayer/src/applet-init.c:reload:167)
reload (/home/alvin/.config/cairo-dock/current_theme/plug-ins/musicPlayer/musicPlayer.conf)
debug : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.0.0.1/musicPlayer/src/applet-draw.c:cd_musicplayer_apply_status_surface:204)
cd_musicplayer_apply_status_surface (0)


When I relaunch cairo-dock with rhythmbox already open it will display the currently playing song on rollover but without switching to the cd cover icon -- any changes in rhythmbox fail to create additional debug output

matttbe, Friday 01 June 2012 à 22:45


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 12573
Hello,

This applet works fine for me with RB.

org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox presence on the bus: 0
It says that Rhythmbox didn't activate this bus on DBus. Can you check if these RB plugins are enable (in RB / Edit / Plugins): "D-BUS MediaServer2 interface" and "MPRIS D-Bus interface"

PS: Don't hesitate to use the latest stable version (3.0.1) by adding our ppa

amites, Friday 01 June 2012 à 23:10


Subscription date : 04 April 2012
Messages : 11
that was it -- might be worth adding to documentation?

thank you

matttbe, Saturday 02 June 2012 à 00:05


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 12573
It's written in the applet's handbooks and now in our forum
(...)
Note: you may have to install or activate the MPRIS plug-in of the player.

amites, Saturday 02 June 2012 à 00:36


Subscription date : 04 April 2012
Messages : 11
smarty pants -- showing off my laziness *grin*

guess I should remember that the user docs can be useful when I don't know the coding language (C)

fabounet, Thursday 07 June 2012 à 14:48


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
only 1 plug-in is needed in RB (MPRIS1 or MPRIS2)
of course, MPRIS2 is better. but MPRIS1 should work too.
was MPRIS1 activated or not before you edit the preferences ?

amites, Thursday 07 June 2012 à 18:28


Subscription date : 04 April 2012
Messages : 11
MPRIS (assuming 1) works alone

disabling MediaServer2 stopped all interaction as before

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[Locked] MusicPlayer -- Does not track player in Ubuntu 12.04
amites English 7 amites [Read]
07 June 2012 à 18:28


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