Songbird 1.0.0rc2 on OpenSolaris
Sunday, Nov 16. 2008 – Category: Songbird
Alfred posted to desktop-discuss a couple of days ago with a pointer to his latest build of Songbird for OpenSolaris (1.0.0rc2). You can grab it here. This is the second release candidate of our final 1.0 release. Hopefully once we launch 1.0, we can get it updated into the IPS repository at pkg.opensolaris.org.
One caveat, Songbird normally builds againsts its own bundled GStreamer libraries in order to provide a consistent build across all our platforms (and given we can’t depend on a system GStreamer for Mac or Windows). This means there can be some hiccups with building against a system-wide GStreamer install. Alfred pointed out in his message above that in order for the 1.0.0rc2 build to play media files you need to have the GStreamer input-selector plugin installed.
I’ve gone ahead and made a build of input-selector and packaged it up into an easy-to-install Songbird add-on which you can (and should) download from our add-ons site. If you launch Songbird and then go to that URL, you should be able to click the big green INSTALL button. Restart Songbird and you’ll be able to play media files again happily (or unhappily, depending on your choice of music).
(this was built on a 2008.11-ish machine with Sun Studio 12 against gst-plugins-bad 0.10.8)
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November 17th, 2008 at 13:42
Steve, I installed the latest and noticed that some things in my songbird DB didn’t look right. So, I blew away my .songbird2 directory and let it reinitialize. Songbird doesn’t seem to like any of my files which have non-C-locale characters in them.
On console, I get:
TagLib: Could not open file /aux0/dp/music/Buena Vista Social Club/Buena Vista Social Club/07 - Veinte A�os.mp3 …
My locale is “C” but I also tried with “en_US”.
I thought perhaps taglib was a dependency (and was perhaps downrev) but don’t see it in the pldd output:
$ pldd
pgrep songbird| grep -i tag /aux0/dp/Songbird-1.0.0rc2/components/sbMetadataHandlerTaglib.so