[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 325649] New: gstreamer fail to play x-apetag MP3s

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 GStreamer | gst-plugins-ugly | Ver: 0.10.0

           Summary: gstreamer fail to play x-apetag MP3s
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 0.10.0
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-ugly
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: nigelenki at comcast.net
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: 2.13/2.14
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


Please describe the problem:
Apparently gstreamer-0.10 will look at an application/x-apetag MP3 and fail to
play it.  This is very annoying, as I have no idea what idiot tagged the MP3
with monkey's audio tags or whatever cracksmoke this is; but I'd rather not
randomly encounter broken MP3s that worked before.

Steps to reproduce:
This can be reproduced by attempting to play a 10MB MP3 I have that I probably
shouldn't attach.

Actual results:
$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin
uri=file:///home/shared/audio/incoming/Utada_Hikaru_-_Simple_and_Clean__Remix_-_English_.mp3
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
** Message: don't know how to handle application/x-apetag
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...

(hang)

Expected results:
expected results occur in gstreamer-0.8:

$ gst-launch-0.8 playbin
uri=file:///home/shared/audio/incoming/Utada_Hikaru_-_Simple_and_Clean__Remix_-_English_.mp3
RUNNING pipeline ...
Waiting for the state change...

(at this point the music plays)

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
It should be possible to determine that the file is an MP3 even if you can't
understand the apetag.  If I use 'dd' to nab the first 512KiB, it plays; this
indicates that yes gstreamer-0.10 is quite capable of identifying an MP3.  It
should be made capable of discarding the junk at the end as well, like mpg321
does.


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