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.
THANK YOU!!
Thank You..Saved the few remaining hairs on my head.