[r3v0ss]

In xbmc you can rip a cd to flac (amongst other formats) can you rip a cd to flac using xbmc and see if those files also do this?

I guess that you can also try playing the file from local hdd instead of network (if your not already doing that). personally I cant duplicate your issue.

I've tried playing them from the local hard drive, made no difference. Will try the rip option in xbmc tomorrow.

[jmarshall]

Sounds like it's a build issue in that case (you're on ArchLinux, right?)

Have you tried on XBMC for windows, as you appear to have a windows box?

[r3v0ss]

I'm on ArchLinux, indeed.

On my Windows 7 laptop they play fine under xbmc.

I've ripped a cd on my Arch box, even those files will not play. The same errors appear in the log file. What to do?

[jmarshall]

Ask the ArchLinux folk to fix their builds perhaps? As far as I'm aware, all builds that we produce are just fine in this regard.

[r3v0ss]

Ofcourse. I will continue on the Arch forum. Thanks for the support.

[r3v0ss]

Just noticed that PAPlayer is not installed under /usr/share/xbmc/system/players. This could be the problem, because I've just noticed that even mp3 files won't play. And playing them with DVDPlayer works like a charm.

[un1versal]

I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶f̶l̶a̶c̶,̶ ̶m̶p̶3̶ ̶f̶i̶l̶e̶s̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶,̶ ̶i̶d̶k̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶p̶a̶p̶l̶a̶y̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶g̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶L̶i̶n̶u̶x̶ ̶e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶a̶g̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶I̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶r̶c̶e̶,̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶h̶a̶p̶s̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶.̶/̶c̶o̶n̶f̶i̶g̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶-̶-̶e̶n̶a̶b̶l̶e̶-̶p̶l̶a̶y̶e̶r̶=̶p̶a̶p̶l̶a̶y̶e̶r̶ ̶(̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶f̶l̶a̶g̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶

**Edit paplayer is under /usr/lib/xbmc/system/players/ not /usr/share/xbmc/system/players

[r3v0ss]

removed the repository version, installing from source as we speak.

[un1versal]

any news?

[r3v0ss]

compile from source gave errors, will look into that some other time. In the meanwhile I've set DVDPlayer as the default audio player in my advancedsettings.xml, this works for now.

[r3v0ss]

**small update**

Today, XBMC didn't start into the menu. So I decided to move the .xbmc folder in my home direcory, forcing XBMC to make a new one. Afterwards, I was able to play music files directly. Apparantly, a profile setting is affecting why I can not play music. Will dive into this in the weekend.

[r3v0ss]

finally got some time to dive into this matter.

Deleted the old profile to force XBMC to create a new one. At blanc, playing mp3 files in directory mode works fine. Next step: connecting to my SQL database. When connected, I can't play any mp3 file from the library.

So I've deleted the profile directory again, and after creation of a new profile directory I didn't connect the Music database to the SQL server, but I let it scrape and store it locally. Now it works like a charm.