providing decoder plugins?

Hello, I just fresh installed Debian 7 stable with no desktop environment. First I tried to install moc via apt-get, but it installed a 2.5.0-alpha version, and I figured I should try to install the new 2.5.0 stable.

Per the "README" (http://moc.daper.net/node/87), I went through
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install libdb-dev (Berkley db)
apt-get install ncurses-dev
apt-get install g++

The next part of the README to install plugins for audio format. All I really need, initially at least is mp3 and WAV.

apt-get install libmad0
apt-get install libmad0-dev
apt-get install libsndfile1
apt-get install libsndfile1-dev

I ran "./configure" and at the end of the returned text I received

MOC will be compiled with:

Decoder Plugins: flac sndfile vorbis
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no mp3 or wav? Can someone help?

Thanks!
Jim

wav is handled by sndfile. As to mp3, you probably should post whole configure output - somewhere in there there is an error message explaining what exactly is missing.

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-----------------------------------------------------------------------
MOC will be compiled with:

Decoder plugins: flac sndfile vorbis
Sound Drivers: OSS
DEBUG: yes
RCC: no
Network streams: no
Resampling: no
MIME magic: no
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WARNING: Since MOC version 2 the executable file name has changed to mocp!
Please remove old moc binary if you have installed an older version.

You still need libid3tag devel package.

Ahh, that was it! mp3 is now listed under decoder plugins, thanks!

I opened the player "mocp" and I have a blue screen and nothing at the top. At the bottom the text reads "Getting the playlist..."

I recall when I did the "apt-get install moc" and ran "mocp", it the same blue screen, but at the top some way of navigating to a directory, which doesn't appear to be present right now.

Thanks for bearing with me.

Never saw anything similar. You might try removing your old configuration/playlist/cache in ~/.moc. Also, you could try to run MOC server in a separate window and watch its output for errors (quit MOC, run only server by mocp -SF and then start MOC in separate console). You could also try to start MOC in different directory. Maybe you have some weird file in your working directory which hangs one of the decoders (if so, you should probably tell developer about it, maybe it's some error that should be fixed).

Last attempt would probably be to recompile MOC with --enable-debug configure option and check output produced by mocp -D (mocp_[server,client]_log files).

I never configured a playlist in my initial install, so there was no "/playlist/cache" directory.

I copied the mocp_client_log and here what I get:

Apr 1 07:07:42.074537: main.c:799 main(): This is Music On Console (revision 2668)
Apr 1 07:07:42.074737: main.c:805 main(): Configured:
Apr 1 07:07:42.074758: main.c:811 main(): Running on: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64
Apr 1 07:07:42.074787: main.c:474 log_command_line(): mocp -D
Apr 1 07:07:42.075470: options.c:1149 options_parse(): Can't open config file: No such file or directory
Apr 1 07:07:42.098119: decoder.c:674 load_plugins(): Loaded 4 decoders: flac mp3 sndfile vorbis
Apr 1 07:07:42.098267: interface.c:3483 init_interface(): Starting MOC Interface
Apr 1 07:07:42.098333: log.c:195 log_init_stream(): Writing log to: mocp_client_log
Apr 1 07:07:42.098472: utf8.c:322 utf8_init(): Using UTF8 output
Apr 1 07:07:42.104938: interface.c:478 update_mixer_name(): Mixer name: Master
Apr 1 07:07:42.105146: interface.c:1444 get_server_playlist(): Getting the playlist...
Apr 1 07:07:42.105156: interface.c:944 recv_server_plist(): Asking server for the playlist from other client.
Apr 1 07:07:42.105166: interface.c:946 recv_server_plist(): Waiting for response
Apr 1 07:07:42.105225: interface.c:954 recv_server_plist(): There is a playlist, getting...
Apr 1 07:08:42.015531: log.c:119 log_signals_raised(): SIGTERM
Apr 1 07:08:42.015542: log.c:119 log_signals_raised(): SIGTERM
Apr 1 07:08:42.015546: interface.c:3693 interface_fatal(): FATAL ERROR: The server exited!
Apr 1 07:08:42.015605: interface_elements.c:3672 windows_reset(): endwin() failed!
Apr 1 07:08:42.015621: interface_elements.c:3672 windows_reset(): endwin() failed!
Apr 1 07:08:42.015631: interface.c:3695 interface_fatal(): FATAL ERROR: The server exited!

Edit: sorry, figured it out. I had to reboot after the ./configure, make, make install. Then it worked, as long as I exit the player using the "Q" instead of "ctrl-z".

I don't think you should ever use ctrl-z to suspend MOC. If you want to exit the client but keep MOC playing, just use "q". In your case, I don't think you needed to reboot, quiting previous MOC properly should be enough.

When the client is asked to suspend itself it could disconnect from the server or it could refuse to be suspended. I do not see any need to honour a suspend request as quitting and restarting the client seems to me to be sufficient.

Does anyone have a good reason why the client should be suspendable?

I did find this problem some time ago in testing along with several others which occur when MOC is suspended, but until now nobody's noticed so I didn't work on fixing them.

Your specific problem arises when the first client is suspended and a second client attempts to synchronise its playlist with it (via the SyncPlaylist configuration option). The server makes a request of the first client to obtain its playlist, but as that client is suspended it cannot respond. Thus the second client hangs awaiting the first client's copy of its playlist from the server.

Noticed some things missing and ran:

apt-get install subversion
apt-get install autoconf
apt-get install gawk

I still don't appear to be closer to having the mp3 codecs however.