No ffaudio.so in audacious-plugins

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This bug probably causes Audacious to not play WMA files (bug #877644).

Precise is affected too; amd64 versions are affected as well as i386.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/i386/audacious-plugins/filelist
http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/i386/audacious-plugins/filelist
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/audacious-plugins/filelist
http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/amd64/audacious-plugins/filelist
http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/amd64/audacious-plugins/filelist
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/amd64/audacious-plugins/filelist
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This bug really prevents audacious from playing WMA and probably other FFmpeg-dependent formats.
(After copying ffaudio.so, libavcodec.so.52, libavformat.so.52 and libavutil.so.50 from packages found in Natty repositories, it begans to play WMA files at least).
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Audacious is pretty outdated in Ubuntu repositories (it should've been reported).
What is the latest version?
Audacious official site has some technical problems for a quite long time: http://boards.audacious-media-player.org/viewtopic.php?t=522

Heh, it hadn't really been reported yet, so I've posted the version upgrade request as bug #889585.

Who know if/when debian is going to fix this, the main issue I believe is the configure is requiring avcore, (libavcore) which no longer exists, merged into avutil

If the configure|configure.ac is cleaned up then ffaudio will be included

Not to mention 2.4 is quite old - there have been stable releases since then, 3.0.4 & 3.1

If this is a patent issue thens seems a bit nonsensical so will assume it isn't

if self building the latest aud, the issue now would be the libavcodec version number, may be higher than what is used.
Ex. in precise
currently used - libavcodec >= 53.34.0
specified in configure|configure.ac - 53.40.0

Note that the plugin does build & work fine with 53.34.0

On 01/25/2012 09:07 AM, Doug McMahon wrote:
> if self building the latest aud, the issue now would be the libavcodec version number, may be higher than what is used.
> Ex. in precise
> currently used - libavcodec>= 53.34.0
> specified in configure|configure.ac - 53.40.0
>
> Note that the plugin does build& work fine with 53.34.0
>
How can I get my Audacious player to begin recognizing and playing WMF
files again? I'm not a techie, so the instructions need to be fairly simple.

Mark

mr2131,
this can get fixed no earlier than in Ubuntu 12.04, so as a temporary solution you can try to upgrade the packages from the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8 (Audacious will be upgraded to its latest version, 2.3).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

re-filed a new bug for 12.04 which just got the new 3.2.1 aud, same nonsense, no ffaudio support.
Bug 922985
There really is no excuse for this.

On 01/28/2012 08:00 PM, Doug McMahon wrote:
> re-filed a new bug for 12.04 which just got the new 3.2.1 aud, same nonsense, no ffaudio support.
> Bug 922985
> There really is no excuse for this.
>
I followed the instructions given to me and updated my Audacious player.
For the moment, it seems to be working well. Will it stop working again if
I upgrade to 12.04?

Mark

On 01/28/2012 09:35 PM, mr2131 wrote:
> I followed the instructions given to me and updated my Audacious player.
> For the moment, it seems to be working well. Will it stop working again if
> I upgrade to 12.04?
>
> Mark

You'll be ok , one way or the other. Either this gets fixed in 12.04 or
the ppa will have a decent package
>

This bug was fixed in the package audacious-plugins - 3.2.1-2

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audacious-plugins (3.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Team upload.
  * Add gmodule.patch to fix build failure on Ubuntu.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3, no changes needed.
  * Update machine-readable copyright Format to 1.0.
  * Do not disable PSF any more.
  * Run autoconf again to really apply the FFaudio patch
    (Closes: #640931, #641701, LP: #880192, #922985).

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:57:39 +0100