Banshee freezes on copying to iPod music which needs transcoding

hello,

could you maybe attach a screenshot of this issue? also, does this issue happen on 12.10? or just now after upgrade? and could you please run "apport-collect 1159513" in a terminal on your 13.04 installation?

thanks in advance.

On 25/03/2013 05:45, Joeri Eilander wrote:
> hello,
>
> could you maybe attach a screenshot of this issue? also, does this issue
> happen on 12.10? or just now after upgrade? and could you please run
> "apport-collect 1159513" in a terminal on your 13.04 installation?
>
> thanks in advance.

Rather than that, could you follow the instructions in
http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs/ to get a complete debug log when it
crashes please?

  status incomplete

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

This is the stak trace I get in the error popup:

An unhandled exception was thrown: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

at Banshee.Sources.PrimarySource.IncrementAddedTracks () <0x0004d>
at Banshee.Dap.DapSource.OnTrackTranscodeError (Banshee.Collection.TrackInfo) <0x00067>
at Banshee.MediaEngine.TranscoderService.OnError (object,Banshee.MediaEngine.TranscoderErrorArgs) <0x0007c>
at Banshee.GStreamer.Transcoder.OnError (Banshee.Collection.TrackInfo,string) <0x00063>
at Banshee.GStreamer.Transcoder.OnNativeError (intptr,intptr,intptr) <0x000f4>
at (wrapper native-to-managed) Banshee.GStreamer.Transcoder.OnNativeError (intptr,intptr,intptr) <0x00083>
at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Application.gtk_main () <0x00054>
at Gtk.Application.Run () <0x0000b>
at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Run () <0x0005f>
at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup () <0x00049>
at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup (Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup/StartupInvocationHandler) <0x0008e>

I'm attaching the whole contents of banshee.log as requested.

Looking into banshee.log, the underlying problem seems to be the following:

[Error 19:09:33.070] Cannot Convert File - GStreamer encountered a general stream error.: gstbaseparse.c(3038): gst_base_parse_loop (): /GstPipeline:pipeline/GstDecodeBin:decodebin/GstFlacParse:flacparse0:
streaming stopped, reason not-linked

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

I have been having this issue and am now getting around to looking at it. I think it has something to do with gstreamer and not banshee.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 01:32:00AM -0000, Alan Birstok wrote:
> I have been having this issue and am now getting around to looking at
> it. I think it has something to do with gstreamer and not banshee.

Could you try the packages from https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/ppa
and see if they fix the error for you?

  status incomplete

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

I tried the new package of Banshee from the PPA and I detect no problems since the update : now Banshee doesn't crash, the conversion then the import of the musics runs properly. I have the music on my IPod. It seems to work! Anyone can confirm that?

After seeing your success I too added the new package from the PPA and upgraded Banshee. It works!

I had been having the same issue as you but using a Samsung Galaxy SII on Ubuntu 13.04.

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 04:15:29PM -0000, David Legg wrote:
> After seeing your success I too added the new package from the PPA and
> upgraded Banshee. It works!
>
> I had been having the same issue as you but using a Samsung Galaxy SII
> on Ubuntu 13.04.

Great, thanks for your replies. I'll need to get the new patches backported to
Ubuntu 13.04 then.

  affects ubuntu/banshee
  status fixreleased

  affects ubuntu/raring/banshee
  status triaged
  assignee hyperair

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

Hello Tommaso, or anyone else affected,

Accepted banshee into raring-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/2.6.1-1ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Looks like there's a regression in Bug #1193667. I'll make another upload
dropping the BPM portions of the patch.

  tag verification-failed -verification-needed

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

Well, I was previously unable to transcode anything in 13.04x64 and 2.6.1. Having shouted at GStreamer for a few weeks I enabled proposed updates just now and I confirm it works on both my Galaxy Note GT-N7000 and several USB .is_audio_player enabled sticks using Mass Storage. Only issue appears that whilst it does actually transfer and transcode all the tracks - it appears not to stop. The lower left hand indicator still continues. However, just starting another sync seems to push off the previous one and all is well.

Thanks.

Hello Tommaso, or anyone else affected,

Accepted banshee into raring-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/2.6.1-1ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Yes! I have given 2.6.1-1ubuntu1.2 a decent workover and cannot find any regressions. Transcoding is very stable.
Tks Ubuntu and Chow Loong Jin - with the USB interface improvements and this Banshee fix I now have full portability for my music collection across any device. This is something I have never been able to do in Linux . A major step forward. Thank you very much :)

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 06:35:32AM -0000, mark wrote:
> Yes! I have given 2.6.1-1ubuntu1.2 a decent workover and cannot find any
> regressions. Transcoding is very stable. Tks Ubuntu and Chow Loong Jin - with
> the USB interface improvements and this Banshee fix I now have full
> portability for my music collection across any device. This is something I
> have never been able to do in Linux . A major step forward. Thank you very
> much :)

Great, thanks for verifying!

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

This bug was fixed in the package banshee - 2.6.1-1ubuntu1.2

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banshee (2.6.1-1ubuntu1.2) raring-proposed; urgency=low

  * [13571f2] Disable BPM support.
    It doesn't work prior to the GStreamer patch, and sigabrts with the patch
    due to a SoundTouch bug. (LP: #1193667)

banshee (2.6.1-1ubuntu1.1) raring-proposed; urgency=low

  * [6fe3971] Cherry-pick fix for transcoding exceptions (LP: #1159513)
 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Jun 2013 01:07:25 +0800

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.