[gst-devel] [Rhythmbox-devel] Spider element (fwd)

Benjamin Otte in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de
Fri Nov 7 07:08:12 CET 2003


Do we know why it could happen that someone doesn't have a spider element?
Do distributions package core plugins seperate from the core lib or is
this a registry issue?
I just have never had that problem, so I have no clue why that even might
happen.

Please enlighten me,
Benjamin


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:36:18 +0100
From: Luca Ferretti <elle.uca at libero.it>
To: rhythmbox-devel at gnome.org
Subject: [Rhythmbox-devel] Spider element

A small quote from http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=5066

<quote>
Fedora has also bundled something called Rhythmbox version 0.5.3 to play
radio station music and other types (vorbis). I fired it up and tried to
connect to Digitally Imported (Netherlands) but it popped up an error
'failed to create spider element, check your installation'. So I checked
the properties for that stream, and they were listed as
http://213.73.255.244:8000/, I copied and pasted that address into
Mozilla and it showed me a U ShoutCast D.N.A.S Status page saying the
stream was up and with 43 of 300 users listening, so why couldn't I hear
anything. It quickly dawned on me that once again I needed a plug-in to
listen to these online radio installations, the help files included with
Rhythmbox stated that the player plays MP3, FLAC or OGG/Vorbis files,
but didn't mention where I could add the ability to play MP3 streams. It
would be useful if Rhythmbox included a message like the one in XMMS
detailing that this MP3 support is not included, rather than having
users trying to figure out what a 'spider element' is.
</quote>

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