I have a brand new installation of Ubuntu 18.04.
When I try to stream radio Rhythmbox I get the error
Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in I have looked at the dependencies of Rhythmbox using:
apt-cache depends rhythmbox and checking the libraries one by one using, e.g.
ldconfig -p | grep libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 and this library appear to be missing.
I have downloaded libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.16.2-4_amd64.deb and attempted to install it using
sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.16.2-4_amd64.deb But I get th error
dpkg: error processing archive libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.16.2-4_amd64.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64 [Edit 20200418 11:52 BST] I also get the message
Additional Multimedia Codec Required An application is requesting additional multimedia codecs I have run
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras What can I do?
132 Answers
It turns out that the message from Rhythmbox is misleading. I was trying to play stations that require you to register and sign-in (BBC). Rhythmbox was giving these misleading error messages that sent me off down the wrong track.
This answer has solved my problem for me
Open Rhythmbox and in the Activities bar at the top left of the screen you will see it listed with a small down arrow by its side.
Click on the down arrow and you will be presented with a drop down menu amongst which is listed Plugins.
You can then configure plugins as required.
If there are no plugins present, you can install them by following these steps in a terminal:
sudo apt-get update -y sudo apt-get install -y rhythmbox-plugins The -y flag assumes yes and silently install.
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