Beets on Ubuntu 14.04 Server - Failed to load GStreamer; check that python-gi is installed

[Andy Sayler]

Hi All,

I have the latest version of beets (installed via pip) working fine on a couple of Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop machines. Now I'm trying to get it setup on my backend server running Ubuntu 14.04 Server.

I've installed beets via pip as well as the necessary pip and apt packages for the plugins I'm using (chroma discogs lyrics lastgenre fetchart embedart replaygain scrub importadded inline info missing duplicates copyartifacts). When I go to run beet, however, I get the following error:

$ beet

error: An error occurred in backend initialization: Failed to load GStreamer; check that python-gi is installed

I have gstreamer-1.0 (with good, bad, and ugly plugins) installed, as well as python-gi, python-gst-1.0. ffmpeg is also installed via https://launchpad.net/~jon-severinsson/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg.

What am I missing on the Ubuntu server install that seems to be included by default on the desktop install? Could the issue be the lack of an audio device on the server?

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Andy

[Adrian Sampson]

FWIW, this is being emitted by the ReplayGain plugin in case that wasn’t apparent. (I don’t know why this error message is so uninformative; it should really have made that clearer.) So as a last resort, you can disable that plugin for now.

It is indeed mysterious that this would happen if you have python-gi and streamer-1.0 installed—I can’t think of anything else that’s missing. And, unfortunately, we don’t appear to log any details about what exactly went wrong when trying to load GStreamer (see the `_import_gst` method in replaygain.py).

I’ll look into adding more descriptive error messages/logging, but maybe others have more Ubuntu-specific insight?

Adrian

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[bootstrap]

I recall having similar problems but not what the cause was.  I installed python rgain and in the process of doing that helped me resolve it.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beets-users/6d-TOg0SuPY

[Adrian Sampson]

This commit should help with the error-message situation:

https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/commit/c5293df963d145af6d86b9ae3d5512d0aa1b2ece

[Andy Sayler]

I went ahead and used apt to install python-rgain. That pulled in gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0. Now beets seems to be working! So that must have been the missing piece.

That said, better error logging will be good as well.

Thanks!

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Adrian Sampson <adrian....@gmail.com> wrote:

This commit should help with the error-message situation:

https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/commit/c5293df963d145af6d86b9ae3d5512d0aa1b2ece

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