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[SOLVED] clementine and protobuf, error after upgrade

Hi

Today, after an upgrade, i noticed that my favorite player, clementine, wouldn't launch  :'(
When launching it in terminal, i got the following error:
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clementine: error while loading shared libraries: libprotobuf.so.32: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After checking pacman.log, i noticed the package protobuf was updated from version 21.12-2 to 23.3-1
So i downgraded to the previous version, still in /var/cache/pacman/pkg

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sudo pacman -U protobuf-21.12-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

then clementine worked again :)

Any idea what's wrong with this version ?

thanks

Re: clementine and protobuf, error after upgrade

Reply #1 –
Clementine has been dropped to the AUR by Arch (doesn't cleanly compile any more). The existing package doesn't launch without trickery and unless someone patches it upstream, it'll die soon. It was my favorite music player too.

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Reply #2 –
@nous Someone with enough free time can probably re-fork the Strawberry fork to get it close to what Clementine originally was. :-) Too bad the Strawberry dev can't take any criticism of his weird choices, would've been easier that way. I still use it sometimes along a skinned mpv in audio player mode with some scripts.

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Reply #3 –
ho. this is bad news.
i just saw on the official website (https://www.clementine-player.org/about) that the last version was published in.. 2016  :'(
Any alternative ?
years ago i used rhythmbox but it became garbage,crashed often..
i just tried it and the multimedia keys on my keyboard (play/pause/forward..) dont event work with rhythmbox, while in clementine, no problem.
thanks :)

Re: clementine and protobuf, error after upgrade

Reply #4 –
I've replaced clementine with strawberry for community-qt and exaile for community-gtk, which seem the most feature-complete music managers. Any other suggestions are welcome, cover and lyrics fetching should be the bare minimum functionality of any candidate.

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Reply #5 –
thanks, i'll have a look at it :)

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Reply #6 –
To play sound from local sound + video files I use audacious (omniverse) and deadbeef (aur).
These two readers are simple, light and practical.

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Reply #7 –
thanks tintin, i'll also hae a look at it :)
after installing strawberry, it's pretty much like clementine, but simpler.
i essentially need it to play online radios (so add a multiple radios with their own url & name)

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Reply #8 –
@Dju If you don't change radio channels often I recommend maxing out the buffer cause Strawberry throws any buffer errors (GStreamer warnings) in a window, the dev of course thinks "it's fine", duh! :-)

Re: [SOLVED] clementine and protobuf, error after upgrade

Reply #9 –
thanks for the tip, hitman
so far, so good, i have a good internet connection and no buffering issue with online radios :)