Audacious (was: Re: MP3 playback in XMMS)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:44:34 -0200, Paulo wrote:

> > > diff -Naur audacious-plugins-1.5.1/src/amidi-plug/i_configure.c
> > > audacious-plugins-1.5.1-new/src/amidi-plug/i_configure.c
> > > --- audacious-plugins-1.5.1/src/amidi-plug/i_configure.c
> >  2008-05-23
> > > 19:44:19.000000000 -0300
> > > +++ audacious-plugins-1.5.1-new/src/amidi-plug/i_configure.c
> >  2008-05-28
> > > 08:39:45.000000000 -0300
> > > @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
> > >  #include "i_configure-dummy.h"
> > >  #include "i_utils.h"
> > >  #include <audacious/auddrct.h>
> > > +#include <audacious/plugin.h>
> >
> > What is that supposed to fix?

> If you want to play a mid file with audacious, you need to
> select preferences->plugins
> 
> 1) enable amid-plug-0.81 (mid player)
> 2) disable timidity-audio plugin
> 
> Then selecting amid-plug-0.81 (mid player), choose preferences at the bottom
> and select Fluidsynth Backend 0.81
> 
> After that, click on the Fluidsynth blue symbol on the left, and specify the
> path of any sound font
> you have available elsewhere.
> 
> Once the configuration is done, you just need to select a mid file to play.
> 
> I think will you need the patch to make this scheme work.

The full story is, without this patch, the amidi plugin fails to load
(undefined symbol): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/478557

It cannot be used at all.

Simply rebuilding the package is not enough. Including the missing
header fixes the build, however. I've made a comment in bugzilla.