I recently upgraded my work PC to Ubuntu 9.10 and in doing so lost the ability to play mp3s in Rhythmbox. When trying to play an mp3, rhythmbox would ask for a new plugin, but after looking, say it couldn’t find “GStreamer element autoaudiosink”.
After reinstalling gstreamer and rhythmbox a few times I turned to the Ubuntu Forums. The answer is in the following thread, but I missed it on first glance so thought I’d post it here: [ubuntu] rhythmbox 9.10 mp3
To save you reading through all the posts, to fix the problem after upgrading to 9.10 (not from a clean install), you need to delete your gstream preferences. Open up the terminal and type the following:
rm -rf ~/.gconf/system/gstreamer
rm -rf ~/.gstreamer-0.10
If you log off and back on again now, you should have mp3 playback in rhythmbox again. If that doesn’t work, take a look at the other suggestions in the ubuntu forum thread.
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Thanks… that’s been bugging me for a few days now!
That works fine for me.
And gxine now plays sound too !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mery Christmass
Great find! Worked perfectly. Thanks!
thanks! Dylan is back in my bedroom!
Wow, that’s really odd. Definitely a bug there. Hopefully they will fix in the next rhythmbox version
Who woulda thunk it?? Agree: an odd bug. Perhaps Ubuntu will provide this fix as a “patch”.
Thanks for this work around. Simple. I had to reboot to get the sound working.
Worked for me, too. Thank you
Unfortunately this fix has not worked for me. I’m currently running an upgrade distribution of 9.10 Ubuntu on a Dell Mini 9 which came with Ubuntu 8.04. Have tried everything you guys suggested in the forum. Any more suggestions, greatly appreciated!
This bug appears on upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic (and I believe I saw Gentoo have the issue as well…so this is probably a deeper issue…a patch was released late 2009 for this issue). Instead of removing the directories, open gconf-editor (Alt-F2) navigate to /system/gstreamer/0.10/default and add a key (string): musicaudiosink = autoaudiosink. gconf editing is live, so be careful, this change will take affect immediately and solve the mp3 issue in Rhythmbox and asst.
I should really appreciate you for this. Works perfectly. Hats off.