beetbox / beetbox/beets

More verbose error output on ReplayGain failures when using gstreamer as backend

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feature replaygain
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Description

According to #gstreamer on FreeNode, errors associated with a missing plugin, such as

`beetsplug.replaygain.ReplayGainError: Error Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in. - gstdecodebin2.c(3928): gboolean gst_decode_bin_expose(GstDecodeBin *) (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstDecodeBin:decbin:`

Are preceded by more specific messages on the bus, like:

`missing-plugin, type=(string)decoder, detail=(GstCaps)audio/x-alac, samplesize=(int)16, name=(string)"Apple\ Lossless\ Audio\ \(ALAC\)\ decoder";`

(the above generated by `gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=foo.m4a ! decodebin ! fakesink -m -v` where foo.m4a is a currently unsupported file)

Further reference: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/gst-plugins-base-libs-gstpbutilsmissingplugins.html#gst-missing-plugin-message-get-description (should be available in the Python API as well)

Printing exactly which plugin is missing in the error output could save certain person(s) a lot of time in addressing questions posed in the #beets channel ;)

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