[SOLVED] Clementine won't play certain mp3's

ahc_fan · 10-25-2016, 09:30 AM

But they play fine in audacious. Clementine spits out the following and fails to play some mp3's:

Code:

07:20:19.703 WARN  unknown                          QTimeLine::start: already running

any ideas why this is happening or how to fix? The filenames and tags have no special symbols, just letters and numbers.

Thank you.

rokytnji · 10-25-2016, 09:34 AM

Make sure there are no spaces in the mp3 names is all I can think of.

ahc_fan · 10-25-2016, 09:51 AM

Hmm, most of my mp3's have spaces and they play fine.

DavidMcCann · 10-25-2016, 10:38 AM

I've seen this sort of thing many times, which is why a lot of distros install more than one media player. Just as there's no such thing as bug-free software, so there are media files that have some minor imperfection: some players accept it and some don't. Just be grateful for Audacious!

ahc_fan · 10-25-2016, 10:48 AM

It's just weird that some mp3's won't play, for no apparent reason. Could it be that something is wrong with the actual encoding of those mp3's? I think I will try to re-encode them with ffmpeg.

Edit: I restarted clementine a few times and it didn't change. Then I added more music to my library, and now it's playing everything without issue. So I guess all I had to do was re-scan my library.