MOC doesn't recognize mp3 files?

Submitted by cliplayersareso... on Sat, 2020-04-25 14:03

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MOC version: 
2.6-alpha3

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with i3-gaps on an old MacBook Pro (2010ish). In terminal, ls shows that I have an mp3 file named 'Deep Field' (quotes are shown in terminal as well, and that's the name of the song) but in MOC it doesn't recognize that I have an mp3 in that directory. Does anyone have any ideas? This same problem occurred on Cmus, but still no clue how to fix this.

tomaszg

Sat, 2020-04-25 16:52

If MOC doesn't show mp3 files, it suggests that mp3 decoder was not installed. As far as I know Ubuntu installs it by default (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/moc/decoder_plugins/libmp3_decoder.so according to https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/moc/filelist). If you don't have anything funny in .moc/config file it probably means there is some problem with libmad library. You can check if the plugin was loaded by running MOC via mocp -SF and check the "Loaded xx decoders:" line.

You can start MOC client in other window and try to navigate to the directory with the mp3 file and see if some error message appears in the first window.