Examples of net plugins are:
-cover art search
-Song lyrics
They have been broken for MONTHS and are greyed out and X out when I try to enable them.
When is it gonna be fixed?
So, just some general points about this:
Just from this post, there is not enough information about the issue. And its hard to fix an issue that isn’t clear.
What would be good to know would be:
- What distribution are you using?
- How did you install Rhythmbox and the plugins in question?
- Is there any noteworthy configuration you’ve made before (for example to the network)?
- Are there any error messages when running the app from the terminal?
Then, look if the issue tracker for Rhythmbox already has an issue similar to yours. If not, creating an issue there with the information mentioned above should help bring this to the attention of the developers:
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-EndeavourOS
-From my terminal
libpeas-WARNING **: 12:24:38.181: Could not load plugin loader ‘python3’ (I have python installed)
Since you can install both Flatpak and Arch packages from the terminal this isn’t detailed enough. That being said, I will assume you have used the Arch packages, given the error mentioned.
Though, for future reference, it generally helps to give more information. We don’t know your system in detail, so you need to provide the details if we aren’t supposed to guess.
Right, so based on this message, I could track down the following issue:
With an issue in the library giving the message as well as an downstream Arch issue.
To give an summary of this:
libpeas is a library with which the plugins are loaded in Rhythmbox. Rhythmbox still uses an older version of this library, since the new one would mean a change to the plugins would be required. The intention therefore was to change this when Rhythmbox is updated to GTK4.
Now, a recent update to the Python library for GObject caused that old version of libpeas to crash. Therefore, loading Python plugins was disabled. It seems like an fix will come at some point (see the issue in libpeas for more detail), but it could take some time.
Now, what can be done?
As for a quick workaround, you could try the Flatpak. It still seems to use an older version of the PyGObject library, so the Python plugins should still work there.
You can also try and wait until the fix in libpeas will be provided, or rollback the version of PyGObject to one it works with.
The best solution though would be for Rhythmbox to update its plugin library, but that would also mean updating all plugins, so I can see why they planned to do this together with the GTK4 port. But it seems that they are missing the manpower for the port currently.
If you’re a developer and have time to spare, best way to resolve this would be to help with updating Rhythmbox to GTK4 and the newer version of libpeas.
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