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Podcast not playing in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS #475

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

Prerequisites

Describe the bug

The sound of the podcast won't play in ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Everything else in the application works as intended in my machine; however, when I go to play a podcast it doesn't play.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to 'flatpak run com.github.needleandthread.vocal/x86_64/stable'
  2. Click on 'Any podcast'
  3. Scroll down to '....'
  4. See error: Podcast won't play

Expected behavior

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Logs

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Additional context

I've tried downloading a podcast and then going to ~/.local/share/vocal where the podcasts are stored and I opened the file with VLC player and it plays fine, so the problem must be in the media player.

I've tried uninstalling, resetting (as shown in FAQ) and installing it again from flatpakhub but it doesn't work.

Also, the very first time that I opened the app (first install using flatpak run com.github.needleandthread.vocal/x86_64/stable) it worked fine. Then, it showed up as an app in the Ubuntu "Show Apps" list and that's when it stopped working.

I hope it's just an issue of mine as the applications is beautifully built and I appreciate it.

Full log

This is the log I get when I run the app and play the first podcast I see vocal-1 vocal-2 vocal-3

ghost commented 3 years ago

Hi guys, I managed to fix the issue. Apparently it was just an issue of my machine.

To fix it I did the following:

Go to Settings -> Sound -> In choose a device for sound output: Select speakers and turn the volume all the way up

It was pretty simple but I didn't realized it was intervening with the program.

Hope it helps.