[SOLVED] Unable to play wv (wavpack) files

[undoIT]

I am currently running Fedora 17 with KDE. I have some wv / wavpack files that I would like to play or reencode. When I attempt to play the files I get the following message:

A program requires an additional plugin to decode this file

APE tag demuxer

After clicking continue:

Could not find plugin in any configured software sources

I have ATrpms and RPM Fusion in my sources. Also, wavpack is already installed. I have tried opening in VLC and other programs with no success. Any ideas?

[secipolla]

You could try deadbeef, it's excellent.
http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/download.html

[nonamedotc]

Do you have gstreamer plugins installed? In my case,

$ gst-inspect-0.10 | grep -i ape

taglib:  apev2mux: TagLib-based APEv2 Muxer
apexsink:  apexsink: Apple AirPort Express Audio Sink
apetag:  apedemux: APE tag demuxer
shapewipe:  shapewipe: Shape Wipe transition filter

[ ... ]

If I am not mistaken, gstreamer-plugins-good should provide this ...

[undoIT]

I have the following installed:

gstreamer-plugins-bad
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras
gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree
gstreamer-plugins-good
gstreamer-plugins-good-extras
gstreamer-plugins-ugly



When I run gst-inspect-0.10 | grep -i ape

ffmpeg:  ffdec_escape124: FFmpeg Escape 124 decoder
ffmpeg:  ffdec_escape130: FFmpeg Escape 130 decoder
ffmpeg:  ffdec_ape: FFmpeg Monkey's Audio decoder
ffmpeg:  ffdemux_ape: FFmpeg Monkey's Audio demuxer
ladspa:  ladspa-tapeDelay: Tape Delay Simulation
ladspa:  ladspa-shaper: Wave shaper
shapewipe:  shapewipe: Shape Wipe transition filter
apetag:  apedemux: APE tag demuxer
apexsink:  apexsink: Apple AirPort Express Audio Sink
taglib:  apev2mux: TagLib-based APEv2 Muxer
typefindfunctions: application/x-ape: ape
typefindfunctions: application/x-apetag: mp3, ape, mpc, wv

[nonamedotc]

Try installing gstreamer-ffmpeg. That would be my guess though.

rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer*
gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-python-0.10.22-2.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-4.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-2.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-7.fc17.x86_64
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.7.5-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-0.10.36-1.fc17.x86_64

[undoIT]

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Try installing gstreamer-ffmpeg. That would be my guess though.

already installed.

[nonamedotc]

Well, if that is the case, I have only one more idea ...

 rm -rf ~/.gstreamer-0.10

After this, try restarting the player and play the wv file again. If this does not work, I do not know of any other. Sorry!

[PabloTwo]

Add my "plus one" to the already suggested deadbeef music player in post #2. From the link given, you can download the latest upstream version in rpm package format for Fedora 16 or 17, 32 or 64 bit.

Description :
DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11

Features:

 * plays mp3, ogg, flac/oga, ape, wav, wv/iso.wv, aac/m4a, alac, mpc/mpp/mp+,
tta, wma, shn, sid, nsf, mod, s3m, vtx, vgm/vgz, psf, midi, audio cds,
all formats supported by ffmpeg, dumb, gme, libsndfile, adplug, and more!

Or you could "yum install audacious". Audacious also plays wavpack files.

[undoIT]

UH OH!

I decided to go ahead and install DeaDBeeF. It does indeed play the wv files. It also supports resume playback of tracks and it's very light on the system resources.

It sure is ugly though in KDE. I'll have to see if I can find a better GUI plugin. Also, I need to figure out if it is possible hook into playback functions with keyboard shortcuts (another must-have feature).

Amarok might be in trouble...

---------- Post added at 01:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:33 AM ----------

HOLY CRAP!

I just added Global Hotkeys for Play/Pause, Seek Forward, Seek Backward and Stop linked to the fn key media button shortcuts on my Thinkpad. They even work when DeadBeeF is not focused.

This totally makes my day

---------- Post added at 01:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:36 AM ----------

But wait, there's more! It also has a convert function for FLAC and tons of other codecs with support for command-line options.

---------- Post added at 02:00 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:57 AM ----------

Oh, and did I mention the easy-access preamp for boosting quiet recordings to compensate for the anemic Thinkpad laptop speakers (necessary when I don't have decent external speakers to plug in to)?

sudo yum remove pulseaudio-equalizer

DeadBeeF!

[bonedome]

Both ffplay (player for ffmpeg) and mplayer (and variants use ffmpeg) should play ape audio
type

ffmpeg -formats

and you should see these lines

File formats:
 D. = Demuxing supported
 .E = Muxing supported
 D  ape             Monkey's Audio
 D  wv              WavPack

[undoIT]

Originally Posted by bonedome

Both ffplay (player for ffmpeg) and mplayer (and variants use ffmpeg) should play ape audio
type

ffmpeg -formats

and you should see these lines

File formats:
 D. = Demuxing supported
 .E = Muxing supported
 D  ape             Monkey's Audio
 D  wv              WavPack

I see both of those listed. I don't know why all of the other audio players will not play wv files.

[mschwendt]

Originally Posted by undoIT

I don't know why all of the other audio players will not play wv files.

Hard to comment on without a troublesome example file. WavPack (.wv) and Monkey's Audio (.ape) are two different audio codecs. WavPack is a completely open codec and included with Fedora, whereas Monkey's Audio isn't. And one player referring to a .wv file with "APE tags" may be an indication that something odd is going on.