Ubuntu 9.10 Rhythmbox requires GStreamer element autoaudiosink to play mp3′s

By Cohen | Published: November 24, 2009

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.

This entry was posted in Googled, Technology. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

13 Comments

  1. Mark
    Posted December 2, 2009 at 12:57 am | Permalink

    Thanks… that’s been bugging me for a few days now!

  2. Marion
    Posted December 6, 2009 at 5:00 pm | Permalink

    That works fine for me.
    And gxine now plays sound too !!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

    Mery Christmass

  3. Shanlar
    Posted December 17, 2009 at 2:45 am | Permalink

    Great find! Worked perfectly. Thanks!

  4. aure
    Posted December 19, 2009 at 3:27 pm | Permalink

    thanks! Dylan is back in my bedroom!

  5. Nathaniel Fink
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 4:22 am | Permalink

    Wow, that’s really odd. Definitely a bug there. Hopefully they will fix in the next rhythmbox version

  6. Ken
    Posted December 26, 2009 at 2:41 am | Permalink

    Who woulda thunk it?? Agree: an odd bug. Perhaps Ubuntu will provide this fix as a “patch”.

  7. Boz
    Posted December 27, 2009 at 3:31 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for this work around. Simple. I had to reboot to get the sound working.

  8. Roemer2201
    Posted January 4, 2010 at 3:30 pm | Permalink

    Worked for me, too. Thank you :-)

  9. Colin
    Posted January 16, 2010 at 10:31 pm | Permalink

    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!

  10. Lee Daugherty
    Posted March 3, 2010 at 10:13 pm | Permalink

    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.

  11. Rosario Arun
    Posted March 6, 2010 at 12:55 pm | Permalink

    I should really appreciate you for this. Works perfectly. Hats off.

  12. Josh B
    Posted September 23, 2010 at 1:10 am | Permalink

    THANK YOU!!

  13. N.Rama
    Posted January 17, 2011 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

    Thank You..Saved the few remaining hairs on my head.

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> <pre lang="" line="" escaped="">

  • Categories

  • Archives