Clementine won't play .wma, with "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plugin" error

Question

Here's a screenshot:

It displays messages like: "Clementine stopped." or displays songs that are not playing, and indicator icon is disappearing and reappearing. Does this happens only to me, or is it common bug in 14.04. I clean installed 14.04, and in 13.10 clementine worked fine. Any ideas? I installed ubuntu-restricted-extras.

Edit1: I restarted computer and theme changed:

Edit2: I just figured out that clementine won't play .wma files, and that's when errors start to emerge.

Edit3: VLC and the default ubuntu player play .wma without problems. Please help!

Answer 1

14.04 and later

I've checked the clementine 1.2.x dependencies and I can confirm it requires the gstreamer 0.10 plugins and since wma support is provided by the ffmpeg plugin you need to set up the following PPA to enable WMA support for 14.04 and later:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/gstffmpeg-keep
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Answer 2

I was getting this error on 14.04 LTS when trying to stream any internet source. This is what resolved the error for me:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-libav

Answer 3

By the way, in my Ubuntu 14.04 (upgraded from 13.10) it seems that there is no apt-add-repository

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Now yes, you can install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg as #1 said:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Answer 4

I had the same problem with clementine and ubuntu 16.04 , although everything was working good before but suddenly m4a songs stopped to work .

I open a single file using the default ubuntu video application it prompts me to install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad

so may this command helps you out there

$ sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad