How to play .m4a in Clementine?

Question

Clementine says missing gstreamer plugin when I try to play a .m4a file. Totem and Rhythm Box play it fine.

$ wajig listinstalled gstreamer0.10
gstreamer0.10-alsa:amd64
gstreamer0.10-nice:amd64
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:amd64
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:amd64
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly:amd64
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64
gstreamer0.10-x:amd64
libgstreamer0.10-0:amd64

I'm on Trusty, Clementine was great on Precise, so keen to get it working again.

Jos · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-30T15:09:00.040

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You need to install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, and possibly remove your ~/.gstreamer-0.10/ folder, which is in your user's directory

edited Mar 30 '15 at 15:09

answered May 02 '14 at 14:55

Jos

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Thanks! The package is called gstreamer-plugins-bad on Fedora. – Daniel Jonsson Apr 13 '15 at 09:58
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Not working on ubuntu 15.04 – wim Jun 05 '15 at 16:28
After installing the 'gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad' package on my Ubuntu 14.04 I only had to restart Clementine. Fiddling with the $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/ folder was not necessary in my case. – pefu Aug 10 '15 at 15:08
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In Ubuntu 16.04 you need to install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad. – May 03 '16 at 15:04

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered May 09 '20 at 06:52

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There are missing multimedia extras plugins on your system

The fix that worked for me was running:

$ sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

answered May 09 '20 at 06:52

Nguhi

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You also need to restart Clementine! (with Ctrl+Q to quit) – Carlos Pinzón Dec 10 '20 at 12:35

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '17 at 08:01

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In my case gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad had already been installed but I still couldn't play m4a-files.

After installing 1.3.2 rc1 for Trusty (Ubuntu 14.04) from https://builds.clementine-player.org/ it worked.

answered Jun 13 '17 at 08:01

Christian Benke

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Same case for me, plugin was installed and this upgrade helped, thank you! – Ilja Jul 17 '17 at 10:05

How to play .m4a in Clementine?

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