How can I listen to Souncloud audio using Firefox under Ubuntu Linux?
November 18, 2015 10:37 AM Subscribe
It always just craps out after a few seconds, saying "An error has resulted."
And just in case it's unclear, the instructions in that post are meant to be run in a terminal window.
posted by pahalial at 11:15 AM on November 18, 2015
posted by pahalial at 11:15 AM on November 18, 2015
Response by poster: It does work in Chromium browser; I'm using Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu v42.0
posted by ackptui at 11:26 AM on November 18, 2015
posted by ackptui at 11:26 AM on November 18, 2015
Response by poster: Tried the instructions, this is what I got:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad'
E: Unable to locate package gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly'
Still does not work.
posted by ackptui at 11:37 AM on November 18, 2015
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad'
E: Unable to locate package gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly'
Still does not work.
posted by ackptui at 11:37 AM on November 18, 2015
What version of Ubuntu? gstreamer 1.0 is only available in Ubuntu 14.04 and later.
posted by zsazsa at 11:41 AM on November 18, 2015
posted by zsazsa at 11:41 AM on November 18, 2015
I think gstreamer is in the restricted extras package, so if you install ubuntu-restricted-extras it should come along for the ride, i.e. do the following in a terminal window:
posted by selenized at 1:17 PM on November 18, 2015
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extrasposted by selenized at 1:17 PM on November 18, 2015
Best answer: Wait! My advice was terrible! you wanted 1.0 not 0.1 (reading is not one of my skills).
Gstreamer 1.0 and all its plugins are available for 12.04 from the gstreamer developers ppa. Once you add that repository, you can follow the instructions in the link provided by pahalial.
posted by selenized at 1:36 PM on November 18, 2015
Gstreamer 1.0 and all its plugins are available for 12.04 from the gstreamer developers ppa. Once you add that repository, you can follow the instructions in the link provided by pahalial.
posted by selenized at 1:36 PM on November 18, 2015
Response by poster: Thanks! This worked. What I ran in Terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
posted by ackptui at 3:59 PM on November 18, 2015
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
posted by ackptui at 3:59 PM on November 18, 2015
Response by poster: After a restart, Soundcloud audio now works fine.
posted by ackptui at 4:01 PM on November 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by ackptui at 4:01 PM on November 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
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If that doesn't work, anyone wanting to help will really need more information such as the version of Firefox and whether you have the same issue with Chrome/Chromium.
posted by pahalial at 11:14 AM on November 18, 2015