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Bug 63416 - Rhythmbox won't play songs - "Could not create audio output element; check your settings"
Summary: Rhythmbox won't play songs - "Could not create audio output element; check yo...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2004-09-09 05:22 UTC by David Morgan
Modified: 2005-08-24 09:31 UTC (History)
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Description David Morgan 2004-09-09 05:22:44 UTC 
Summary pretty much says it all - I can't play any mp3s because I get that error message

From what I've seen on google, it seems to be gstreamer related, but I don't know how to fix it

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add an mp3 to rhythmbox
2. Double click it/press play
3.

Actual Results:  
Error:
Could not create audio output element; check your settings

Expected Results:  
Play the song

emerge info

Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
Portage 2.0.51_pre20 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0,
2.6.7-ck1 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-ck1 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://194.117.158.28 http://194.117.158.29
ftp://194.117.158.28/mirrors/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib alsa apm atm avi berkdb cdr crypt directfb divx4linux dvd encode
fbcon foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk+ gtk2 imlib java jpeg libg++
libwww live mad mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl
oggvorbis pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse sse2
ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora truetype usb v4l v4l2 wxwindows x86 xine xml2 xmms xv
xvid zlib"
Comment 1 Zaki 2004-09-18 19:30:29 UTC 
Run gstreamer-properties and set it up according to what you use.
Comment 2 David Morgan 2004-09-23 03:05:26 UTC 
That fixed it, thanks (though I didn't actually have to change anything)
Comment 3 whitehawk 2005-08-24 09:31:52 UTC 
What do I need to run gstreamer-properties? Since I can't find such executable.
gstreamer-0.8.10