Refuse to play Music

I did the updates to my Ipod touch now it doesn't play it works to the point of playing music then all of a sudden it return back to the page where you choose your music any help

- Have you tried resetting the iPod:
Reset iPod touch: Press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button and the Home
button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Next would be to restore from backup followed by restoring to factory defaults/new iPod.

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Sonata refuses to play music

Yesterday, I was finally able to install arch. I immediately went installing programs, which went well untill I got to mpd/sonata. Mpd seems to be working, and I can see my songs within sonata. However, when I click on a song to play, it appears to start but stops immediately. If i start sonata from a terminal, it doesn't display any errors.
Here's my /etc/mpd.conf
# An example configuration file for MPD
# See the mpd.conf man page for a more detailed description of each parameter.
######################## REQUIRED PATHS ########################
#music_directory "~/music"
#playlist_directory "~/playlists"
#db_file "~/mpd.db"
#log_file "~/mpd.log"
#error_file "~/mpd.error"
music_directory "/media/data/mpd/music"
playlist_directory "/media/data/mpd/music/pls"
db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"
error_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.error"
# Note: ~ is the home directory of user set in the "user" option
######################## OPTIONAL PATHS ########################
# If you wish to use mpd --kill to stop MPD, then you must
# specify a file here in which to store MPD's process ID.
#pid_file "~/.mpd/mpd.pid"
pid_file "/var/run/mpd/mpd.pid"
# If specified, MPD will save its current state (playlist,
# current song, playing/paused, etc.) at exit. This will be
# used to restore the session the next time it is run.
#state_file "~/.mpd/mpdstate"
state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate"
######################## DAEMON OPTIONS ########################
# If started as root, MPD will drop root privileges and run as
# this user instead. Otherwise, MPD will run as the user it was
# started by. If left unspecified, MPD will not drop root
# privileges at all (not recommended).
user "varreon"
# The address and port to listen on.
#bind_to_address "localhost"
bind_to_address "any"
port "6600"
# Controls the amount of information that is logged. Can be
# "default", "secure", or "verbose".
#log_level "default"
########################## PERMISSIONS #########################
# MPD can require that users specify a password before using it.
# You may specify one ore more here, along with what users who
# log in with that password are allowed to do.
#password "password@read,add,control,admin"
# Specifies what permissions a user who has not logged in with a
# password has. By default, all users have full access to MPD
# if no password is specified above, or no access if one or
# more passwords are specified.
#default_permissions "read,add,control,admin"
########################## AUDIO OUTPUT ########################
# MPD supports many audio output types, as well as playing
# through multiple audio outputs at the same time. You can
# specify one or more here. If you don't specify any, MPD will
# automatically scan for a usable audio output.
# See <http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Configuration#Audio_Outputs>
# for examples of other audio outputs.
# An example of an ALSA output:
audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "My ALSA Device"
options "dev=dmixer"
device "plug:dmix" # optional
# An example of an OSS output:
#audio_output {
# type "oss"
# name "My OSS Device"
# device "/dev/dsp" # optional
# format "44100:16:2" # optional
# An example of a shout output (for streaming to Icecast):
#audio_output {
# type "shout"
# name "My Shout Stream"
# host "localhost"
# port "8000"
# mount "/mpd.ogg"
# password "hackme"
# quality "5.0"
# bitrate "128"
# format "44100:16:1"
# user "source" # optional
# description "My Stream Description" # optional
# genre "jazz" # optional
# public "no" # optional
# Force all decoded audio to be converted to this format before
# being passed to the audio outputs.
#audio_output_format "44100:16:2"
############################# MIXER ############################
# MPD needs to know what mixer settings to change when you
# adjust the volume. If you don't specify one here, MPD will
# pick one based on which ones it was compiled with support for.
# An example for controlling an ALSA mixer:
#mixer_type "alsa"
#mixer_device "default"
#mixer_control "PCM"
# An example for controlling an OSS mixer:
#mixer_type "oss"
#mixer_device "/dev/mixer"
#mixer_control "PCM"
# If you want MPD to adjust the volume of audio sent to the
# audio outputs, you can tell it to use the software mixer:
#mixer_type "software"
######################### NORMALIZATION ########################
# Specifies the type of ReplayGain to use. Can be "album" or
# "track". ReplayGain will not be used if not specified. See
# <http://www.replaygain.org> for more details.
#replaygain "album"
# Sets the pre-amp used for files that have ReplayGain tags.
#replaygain_preamp "0"
# Enable on the fly volume normalization. This will cause the
# volume of all songs played to be adjusted so that they sound
# as though they are of equal loudness.
#volume_normalization "no"
########################### BUFFERING ##########################
# The size of the buffer containing decoded audio. You probably
# shouldn't change this.
#audio_buffer_size "2048"
# How much of the buffer to fill before beginning to play.
#buffer_before_play "0%"
# Similar options for the HTTP stream buffer. If you hear
# skipping while playing HTTP streams, you may wish to increase
# these.
#http_buffer_size "128"
#http_prebuffer_size "25%"
########################### HTTP PROXY #########################
# Specifies the HTTP proxy to use for playing HTTP streams.
#http_proxy_host "proxy.isp.com"
#http_proxy_port "8080"
#http_proxy_user "user"
#http_proxy_password "password"
############################# LIMITS ###########################
# These are various limits to prevent MPD from using too many
# resources. You should only change them if they start
# restricting your usage of MPD.
#connection_timeout "60"
#max_connections "5"
#max_playlist_length "16384"
#max_command_list_size "2048"
#max_output_buffer_size "8192"
###################### CHARACTER ENCODINGS #####################
# If file or directory names do not display correctly, then you
# may need to change this. In most cases it should be either
# "ISO-8859-1" or "UTF-8". You must recreate your database
# after changing this (use mpd --create-db).
#filesystem_charset "ISO-8859-1"
# The encoding that ID3v1 tags should be converted from.
#id3v1_encoding "ISO-8859-1"
######################### OTHER OPTIONS ########################
# The metadata types MPD will recognize.
#metadata_to_use "artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc"
# Enable this if you wish to use your MPD created playlists in
# other music players.
#save_absolute_paths_in_playlists "no"
Edit: Forget about the xmms comment posted earlier. Xmms works, yet sonata still doesn't.
Last edited by Varreon (2008-07-22 01:41:32)

I have the exact same issue. Reboot is not helping.
Trouble is, I had it working properly in my other Arch install. I have tried ncmpc and Sonata and gmpc, they all start to play the song - I even see the CD covers (for the songs that I have CD covers for) -- but only for a split second and thenit stops.
I don't think alsa is an issue, because cplay plays all songs without a hitch.
I was hoping for a solution - but all I found was this thread and unfortunately Varreon doesn't know what he/she did to get it to work.
Could you maybe retrace your steps - if you remember them ?
EDIT : This is my mpd.error file. Having a look at it, it does seem that mpd is not recognizing mpdvol
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL mpdvol
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM mpdvol
Jul 26 10:02 : Error opening alsa device "mpdvol": No such file or directory
Last edited by Inxsible (2008-07-26 15:34:24)

Stops Playing Music

What is going on?!?!
Ever since I purchased my iPad (1st Gen iPad - June 2010), I have been using it to play music. My son and I have it run all the time, even while in standby mode. Several days ago, I sync'd my iPad and now it refuses to play music constantly.
At first I thought it was my Wi-Fi connection. I would turn on my app (TuneIn), set it to our radio station, shut the iPad down (standby mode) and set it on the nightstand beside our beds. Once on the nightstand it would stop playing. I would then open the iPad, power it up, and the VERY MOMENT I would begin typing in my 4-digit passcode, it would begin playing. I then thought it might be the specific app (TuneIn), but this happens with other apps as well.
People, this has not happened before until now.
My conclusion is that it is in the iOS.

johncalvinhall wrote:
Once on the nightstand it would stop playing. I would then open the iPad, power it up, and the VERY MOMENT I would begin typing in my 4-digit passcode, it would begin playing. I then thought it might be the specific app (TuneIn), but this happens with other apps as well.
What other apps would you have running or expect to run while the iPad is in sleep mode? Alarm apps or other music apps? Are you using a dock with the iPad?
Have you tried a reset?
Reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.

Unable to play music on iphone 5

My iphone 5 refusing to play music , the moment i touch play sign it moves to next song but dont play it either just flipping to next song list. what to do?
thanks

I am just wondering if this worked?
The same thing has happened to me - i got an iphone aa few months ago and connected it to my laptop for the first time yesterday. When i set it up i connected to my existing itunes (but i didnt realise my sister had used my laptop for her itunes an so i ended up with all her stuff so i clicked to restore) since then i cannot play my music on my iphone. Should i do the above??
Thanks

ITunes Cannot Play Music

Recently my computer just crashed and all my music files were deleted. I did have it backed up on my iPod nano. I have the new iTunes installed and Quicktime. That all works. I have updated my iPod. The music works on my Nano...but I can't play them on my computer. I don't know what to do. Please help me. I will try anything.
Emachines T3104 Windows XP Home Edition, Crashed on 3/24/06

Ahhhhhh... I think I see the problem. Did you convert the files to M4A by burn them to CD and re importing them? If not iTunes may not not play them. iTunes will refuse to play music files that it thinks were tampered with.
I would give more details but the Apple monitors will just edit them out. If indeed you did use a program to "convert"
iTunes Music Store files they try Googling for details on this.

HT1711 I backed up my iphone5 in the morning and later again on the same day, in the afternoon. I then restored an older backup from the morning. Now all my music files refuse to play even though they still appear on iphone. How can I resolve this?

I backed up my iphone5 in the morning and later again on the same day, in the afternoon. I then restored an older backup from the morning. Now all my music files refuse to play even though they still appear on iphone. How can I resolve this?

Most likely you have Office 2004 which are PPC-only applications and will not work in Lion. Upgrade to Office 2011. Other alternatives are:
Apple's iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.)
Open Office (Office 2007-like suite compatible with OS X.)
NeoOffice (similar to Open Office.)
LibreOffice (a new direction for the Open Office suite.)

My Ipod Touch is giving a error message of 'This accessory is not supported by iPod Touch' whenever I dock it in my Bose Sound Dock and refuses to play but will charge the device?? am screaming mad and want to be able to play audio thru using the 2

my ipod touch will not play music thru the Bose sound dock and displays the message 'this accessory is not supported by iPod Touch' how can I fix it?

"This accessory is not supported" usually refers to an inability to charge the iPod, but the music should still play throguh the Bose dock. My iPod Touch works this way.
However, when the Bose refuses to make any sound, I unplug it from mains power for one minute. Then plug it back in and try again. This always sorts out the sound issue, but of course, it still will not charg the Touch.
What happens in your case?

MacBook Pro has no sound, no way to adjust volume, and will not play music.

My MacBook Pro seems to have lost all of its audio functions. I cannot adjust my volume using the keyboard controls, or through the button at the top of my desktop screen, or even through System Preferences. I get the normal volume adjust screen, but it is faded, and there is a symbol over it indicating that I cannot adjust anything. When I go into the Sounds menu from System Preferences, there is nothing for me to select under Input or under Output. My computer makes no noise, whether I'm using iTunes, watching a video, or anything. I cannot play music. My songs simply won't start, and when I skip to any given part of a song, the music still refuses to play. I am not getting the red light from my headphone port. I tried to remove any dust that may have collected in the headphone port, and I've even tried to reset my NVRAM and PRAM. I also updated to OS X Mavericks 10.9.2. Nothing helped. I remember that my MacBook was working perfectly fine all of yesterday, but at one point later in the evening, I tried to plug in my headphones to play music, but nothing would play. I opened Spotify, and it gave me a message that my speakers were broken (I was using the internal speakers). That's when I first noticed the issue. Is there anything else I can try before going to the Apple Store and having them try to fix it? Thank you very much, I appreciate any help.

The last gasp is an OSX reinstall. If that fails, then the genius bar is the best option.
Ciao.

ITunes is SO confused: refuses to play 89 of my 1000+ songs

I backed up my iTunes library to DVD-ROM and had to reformat and reload my entire computer (Windows XP). Reloaded entire computer and reinstalled iTunes 8ish. Restored iTunes library from backup.
(It isn't smart enough to restore all of my artwork, only some; and it forgot which songs were checked and which weren't. Different problems, but poor functionality nevertheless.)
Now, iTunes refuses to play 89 of my 1000+ songs, saying my computer isn't authorized to play them. Stupid, since it's apparently authorized to play all the rest of them. It says I have to authorize the computer with an old AOL ID I apparently used to purchase those songs. Although, many of them were not purchased from the iTunes store, but imported from CDs I own.
So I go through the steps it's forcing me to take. I sign on to the old account, at which point it tells me I have to upgrade to an Apple ID or I can't go any further. Fine. I already have an Apple ID, and there's no way to inform iTunes of that. So I go through the motions to create yet another new Apple ID. Says the request cannot be completed. No explanation.
So I'm stuck. It still refuses to play those tunes, which played fine before I reloaded and restored the computer and library. Now it thinks I have two computers authorized to play iTunes music, and I only have one. Yes, one. It may have been reloaded, but iTunes should be smart enough to figure out that it's the same one. Duh.
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Is there anyone who can fix this? I hope I don't have to tell you how ridiculous this problem is, and how iTunes/Apple is forcing me to take steps it won't allow me to take.
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To load all the stuff from your phone, you'll need to use a 3rd-party uitility. Here are 2 that will work:
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Playing music in my car with Droid Razr...my problem

I used to play music from my droid in my truck via a microUSB to USB cable. I have a aftermarket high end stereo in my ride and this was the best option since a USB connection is digital and it charges the phone while plugged in, so no messy cables. After a over the air android update to the "Ice Cream Sandwich" version I can no longer do this as my steareo just spits an error message at me saying "No Support". When I inquired about this at my local Verizon retailer they kept pushing a car dock accessory package at me that would connect it to my radio thru the auxilary port. the drawback is however that I would now have to have a car charger cable to keep my droid from dying while in use. It all sounded like a marketing ploy to move accessories to me and quite frankly im more then a bit annoyed about it. I despise Apple products in all forms and refuse to drop additional cash on an Ipod. Is there a way to undo the Ice Cream Sandwich update or does anyone know of a setting that will allow music play thru the USB cable like it did before? I tried all the USB function settings, Mass Storage, Media etc... all say No Support on my trucks head unit now.

lunchbox739 wrote:
I used to play music from my droid in my truck via a microUSB to USB cable. I have a aftermarket high end stereo in my ride and this was the best option since a USB connection is digital and it charges the phone while plugged in, so no messy cables. After a over the air android update to the "Ice Cream Sandwich" version I can no longer do this as my steareo just spits an error message at me saying "No Support". When I inquired about this at my local Verizon retailer they kept pushing a car dock accessory package at me that would connect it to my radio thru the auxilary port. the drawback is however that I would now have to have a car charger cable to keep my droid from dying while in use. It all sounded like a marketing ploy to move accessories to me and quite frankly im more then a bit annoyed about it. I despise Apple products in all forms and refuse to drop additional cash on an Ipod. Is there a way to undo the Ice Cream Sandwich update or does anyone know of a setting that will allow music play thru the USB cable like it did before? I tried all the USB function settings, Mass Storage, Media etc... all say No Support on my trucks head unit now.
To answer the first part of the question, by keeping the phone stock, there is no way to go back to GingerBread. Once you did the upgrade, it wrote itself in the boot loader, and any time you factory reset, it will go to Ice Cream Sandwich. Now, as SmashOgre mentioned, there are other ways to do it, but they cannot be discussed here.
As far as your phone not working on your radio anymore, I am afraid I don't have access to a radio like that to test it with, so I can't tell you if it is an issue with your phone in particular or not.

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Can't get my computer to produce any sound at all!!!! after 10.4.6 install.
help !!

Sound comes out through speakers alright . iTunes will play videos with sound normally, but refuses to play mp3's aac's or stuff from music store.
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ITunes refuses to play shared .ogg files

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Nearly all my music files are ogg vorbis. I have only one imac running OS X 10.4.
All my other computers are linux based and share their music through Rhythmbox's DAAP music sharing function.
itunes has no problem playing regular mp3 files from shared sources. Only has a problem playing shared ogg files.

I have ogg files stored locally (on a PC) and iTunes won't play them, no idea why.

[SOLVED] Clementine Refuses to Play MP4 (Missing Plugin)

I am having the same issue as described here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120851
Clementine is refusing to play mp4 files, giving the error: "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."
As an additional note, the mp4 files play perfectly in VLC.
What I have tried so far:
1. Installed gstreamer0.10-plugins group
2. Reinstalled faac and faad2
3. Reinstalled libmp4v2 and lame
4. Deleted directory ~/.local/share/gstreamer-1.0
However, even after these steps I am having the same issue.
Out of the multimedia/music players I've tried clementine most closely fits my needs, so I would like to stick with it.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on and how to fix it? Please let me know if I should provide any additional information. Thanks.
Last edited by WorkingOnIt (2014-05-26 03:01:08)

Thanks a lot for your reply. I do have gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg installed; I believe it's included in the gstreamer0.10-plugins group and just double-checked and it's there. I also just tried changing the extension to .m4a as you suggested but no luck; same error message.
And I do have those above codecs:
"gst-inspect-0.10 | grep qtdemux" yields: "isomp4: qtdemux: QuickTime demuxer"
"gst-inspect-0.10 | grep aacparse" yields: "ffmpeg: ffmux_adts: FFmpeg ADTS AAC muxer (not recommended, use aacparse instead) \n audioparsers: aacparse: AAC audio stream parser"
"gst-inspect-0.10 | grep faad" yields: faad: faad: AAC audio decoder"
Here's the full output of gst-inspet-0.10 in case that's helpful, although it's a lot: http://pastebin.com/1Xet30CK
I checked VLC as you said, and for the mp4's,
audio codec: "MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)"
video codec: "H264-MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)".
decoded format (video): "Planar 4:2:0 YUV".
The page gives some more information, but I don't think anything so relevant (channels, sample rate, resolution, etc).
Do you have any other ideas, and is there any additional information I should provide?

[SOLVED] mpd refuses to play songs with unicode in the filenames

Hi,
I've been using MPD+Sonata for a while now (two great pieces of software), unfortunately I just tried to play some songs stored in files with unicode characters (i think they're unicode, the ones with the accents, like 'è') and they refuse to play.
I modified my mpd.conf file to set filesystem_charset to both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 (restarting mpd and rebuilding the DB each time) and then it simply refused to add the songs to the database. Furthermore, when I uncommented the line again, MPD still won't add them to the database.
Any ideas what's going on?
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by capnfabs (2009-01-17 07:01:14)

ah... ok! it seems that the problem is deeper than that. I have my music stored on an NTFS drive and it would appear that these files have disappeared, as far as linux is concerned. I'll move the thread to something more appropriate
And that was fixed by a remount. Sorry for wasting everyone's time! :-/
Last edited by capnfabs (2009-01-17 07:00:59)

Refuses to play DVDs

My i5 iMac refuses to play or even accept DVDs. Music CDs and applications disks are fine, but whenever I insert a DVD the drive spins and ejects it automatically.
This happens even if I have DVD Player open. Anyone have any idea why its doing this or any suggestions for a fix?

I found a thread in this forum which describes a similar theme:
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19747&messageID=72404
Sometimes such error appears because the drive does not support the medium.
Fact is not every medium is supported by the drives and I believe in the user manual you will find an index of compatible CDs or DVDs
Possibly the drive is defective and can not calibrate lens in the right position.
But this notebook is not very old and I can not imagine the drive is defective
However nothing is impossible.
What you can do is to clean gently the lens and see it this will help.

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