| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/bitwig-studio.git (read-only) |
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| Package Base: | bitwig-studio |
| Description: | Digital audio workstation for music production, remixing and live performance |
| Upstream URL: | https://www.bitwig.com/ |
| Keywords: | audio daw multimedia music |
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| Submitter: | stylemistake |
| Maintainer: | stylemistake (mkzero) |
| Last Packager: | stylemistake |
| Votes: | 59 |
| Popularity: | 0.136659 |
| First Submitted: | 2016-03-28 16:43 |
| Last Updated: | 2018-05-03 14:25 |
Just had a conversation with one of the bitwig devs - sounds like they are aware of this issue (they are running into this with Ubuntu 18.04) and plan to fix it in a 2.3.x point release. Could potentially be related to ffprobe
Workaround for the time being would be to decode mp3/flac/whatever to WAV before you import
Obviously, the avprobe symlink trick doesn't work either.
My guess is that it's related to gstreamer: I use git to keep track of my bitwig projects and by looking at the logs I can tell that MP3 worked on the 14th of March, that is after ffmpeg 3.4.2-2 but before gstreamer 1.14. This is one of the packages i've been playing with recently and we can see that there are gstreamer libraries in /opt/bitwig-studio. That could explain why not everybody is experiencing the issue. That's quite a random guess, still. Anyone can confirm that it works without gstreamer ?
Got a response from BitWig; looks like they aren't interesting in fixing it... :/
Hello [prg]
this must be something specific to Arch Linux, on Ubuntu it works just fine. Unfortunately we can't maintain official support for all the different distros out there and therefore had to decide on one we use to test and more or less guarantee that it works. Therefor we currently can't say what exactly the reason is, that drag and drop does not seem to work using Arch Linux and Bitwig Studio.
Best regards, Bitwig Technical Support Team
<hr>I'm also experiencing mikeza's issue. I've emailed BitWig through their support contact form but would love to hear any if anyone comes with a resolution here. ffmpeg 3.4.2-2 installed; don't remember having this problem with old versions
@mikeza Same here, did you find a solution ?
It's not related to ffmpeg since I'm sure MP3 & FLAC worked at least until mid-march and latest ffmpeg build-date is feb. I also tried to downgrade BW with no luck.
@stylemistake Yes, I have ffmpeg 1:3.4.2-2
Edit: I've also installed and tested ffmpeg-git and ffmpeg-compat-54
Legacy Bitwig worked fine.
@mikeza Have you installed "ffmpeg", which is an optional dependency?
Encountering problems trying to import/play MP3 and FLAC files. WAV works fine. All other features are working great.
[2018-04-03 17:38:19 float-document-master error] Error loading file /home/mz/media/music/mp3/100s/IVRY/03 F Around.mp3: com.bitwig.base.io.ivA: com.bitwig.flt.library.metadata.reader.exception.CouldNotReadMetadataException: could not read metadata: Could not read audio file metadata
Edits: shortened error message
flac/mp3 issues have been resolved in 2.3.3 for me