Clementine refuses to play m4a, wma and wav

I installed Clementine and I'm happy with it's user interface and certain features.

Unfortunately, it refuses to play wma, wav and m4a files.

As far as I know, I do have all the gstreamer plugins installed and the same files play well in Rythmbox, VLC and gnome-player.

I was getting gtreamer is missing a plugin error message. I installed gnome-codec-install and now it is giving me "internal data flow" error.

I searched the internet but to no avail. Any idea why this is happening?

1 Answer

Your issues seem to go beyond codec install as clementine should play wav without anything.

In any event clementine uses gstreamer0.10 so make sure that these are installed:

(don't think the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly is needed but you could install it)

If there is still an issue then try deleting the .bin file inside ~/.gstreamer-0.10/

Note that gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is not available in 14.04 but can be had here: