Clementine: GStreamer could not create the element: gsettingsaudiosink

Created on 12 May 2016 · 6Comments · Source: clementine-player/Clementine

System information

Operating System: Kubuntu Xenial (16.04)
Clementine version: Version 1.2.3

Expected behaviour / actual behaviour

After the update to Ubuntu Xenial Xerus, Clementine does not want to play music any more. A dialog with this error pops up :

GStreamer could not create the element: gsettingsaudiosink. Please make sure that you have installed all necessary GStreamer plugins (e.g. OGG and MP3)

This has already been reported by others. See:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/761778/clementine-does-not-play-after-update-to-xenial/770857

Workaround

After investigation, the problem comes from the Clementine config file "_$HOME/.config/Clementine/Clementine.conf_"

To fix the problem, it is possible to either erase the file, or if one wants to keep its seetings, simply remove the _GstEngine_ section within the file. Here's what mine was looking like:

[GstEngine]
sink=gsettingsaudiosink
device=
rgenabled=false
rgmode=0
rgpreamp=@Variant(000x870000)
rgcompression=true
bufferduration=1000
monoplayback=false

Source

MiguelTremblay

Most helpful comment

I am also having this issue on Arch Linux (fresh isntall). I had gstreamer installed. I fixed this issue with two things:
1) installing moar plugins: yo -S gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-base gst-libav gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly
2) deleting the Clementine.conf file and rebooting and restarting clementine

It did not work when I did either of these alone.

tommyjcarpenter on 6 Apr 2017

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All 6 comments

Anyone else having this issue? I tried the above, but I don't have sound still.

sithembiso on 24 Aug 2016

Yep, the same issue here, erasing the gstengine section didnt work, erasing complete file also didnt work.

Solution on 18 Sep 2016

If you remove Clementine.conf file completly amd restart Clementine, does it resolve this issue?

MiguelTremblay on 18 Sep 2016

It did not work when I did either of these alone.

tommyjcarpenter on 6 Apr 2017

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Had the problem after re-installed to KDE Neon 64 bit and copying the old 32 bit .conf file over. Deleting the conf file and restart fixed the issue.

gleporeNARA on 8 Jul 2017

Thank you @MiguelTremblay! I was getting "Gstreamer Internal Error", but this still resolved my issue. Do you know why this is an issue? Something on the Xenial side? Pretty sure I had the same version number of Clementine pre-Xenial.