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SongBird 1.2 won’t start on Ubuntu 9.04: Fix
It was strange and I was struggling to get songbird 1.2.0 to start on Ubuntu 9.04. For some reason songbird 1.2.0 won’t start on Ubuntu 9.04. I did some reading on line and found the culprit which was causing it to not start. All you have to do is to remove the package named libvisual-0.4-plugins.
In order to remove and start enjoying SongBird on ubuntu 9.04 again follow the steps:
1. Bring up the terminal by hitting ALT+f2 and typing gnome-terminal.
2. Type the following to remove libvisual-0.4-plugins
sudo apt-get remove libvisual-0.4-plugins
3. That’s it. Now you can enjoy SongBird again.
Note: More information about the package libvisual-0.4-plugins can be found at http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper-backports/sound/libvisual-0.4-plugins
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SongBird: A complete installation and configuration guide
about 1 year ago - View Comments
Share Songbird is a fantastic music player which is available for all the major OS platforms like Linux, Windows and OSX. The beauty of the player is it’s like the famous iTunes but takes configuration to a new level with extensions. You can pimp it up with themes and best of all it’s an open
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about 1 year ago
Are you sure at all, mine works just fine with libvisual and plugins installed ??? except that it launches a bit slow. but Songbird rocks!
about 1 year ago
@GlownDark. My songbird was not launching and hence I had to look for a solution and removing libvisual worked like charm
and hence I thought I’d share! Your slow launch could be some buggy extension! Which one’s do you use?
about 1 year ago
Vivek you are right, this problem was driving me crazy.
Thank you
Hugs
about 1 year ago
MediaFlow, NowPlaying, Lyrics and some skins. If libvisual and plugins removed, will other stuffs get affected? like visualization in Rhythmbox?
XBMC?
about 1 year ago
@SantAnna I am glad it helped!
about 1 year ago
@Glowndark I use all those extensions myself and everything is working fine including rythmbox visualization!
about 12 months ago
Thanks so much, working great now!
about 11 months ago
Happy that I came across this one, did not try your trick as of yet..
I only want to add that my problems started after update of
gstreamers. and i was getting error that “lame 0″ cannot be loaded.
I will get back here with my results.
about 11 months ago
Thanks mate,
This worked like a charm. Found your site through good ol Google
Cheers.
about 11 months ago
removed libvisual-0.4-plugins but songbird still won’t start
about 10 months ago
I love u. Really. Thank you very much.
about 8 months ago
well my songbird is dead it just wont launch and I used the command to remove those libs and it still dont work.
about 6 months ago
I was also having this same problem, but then after removing all 'libgst' files from the 'Songbird/lib' directory and removing the libvisual-0.4-plugins, I was getting;
(songbird-bin:3375): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
as an error under Terminal. But I managed to get Songbird to run by adding 'sudo -H' to the begining of my command (sudo -H Songbird/songbird).
Worked for me so I hope it helps someone!