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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: enter image description here enter image description here

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!

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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
Sylvain Pineau
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  • Here's what I get: 'Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done gstreamer1.0-plugins-good is already the newest version. gstreamer1.0-libav is already the newest version. gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad is already the newest version. gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: kde-l10n-engb kde-l10n-sr Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. '     – Dusan Milosevic Apr 27 '14 at 09:47
  • Could you try opening the same files with totem (which also use Gstreamer)? It will tell us if it's a Gstreamer plugin missing or a Clementine issue. – Sylvain Pineau Apr 27 '14 at 09:50
  • Yes! I just figured out that clementine won't open .wma files. Please help! – Dusan Milosevic Apr 27 '14 at 10:20
  • Do you mean that totem can play wma files? gstreamer1.0-libav should provide the necessary plugin (avdec_wmav2) – Sylvain Pineau Apr 27 '14 at 11:32
  • Yes, totem plays them, but clementine gives errors like on screenshots and wont't play .wma . – Dusan Milosevic Apr 27 '14 at 11:37
  • maybe clementine is using the old 0.10 plugins, try to sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg – Sylvain Pineau Apr 27 '14 at 11:40
  • Here's what I get: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done Package gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

    E: Package 'gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg' has no installation candidate

     – Dusan Milosevic Apr 27 '14 at 11:41
  • Should I try: 'sudo apt-get purge gstreamer0.10*'? It looks like i have both 1.0 and 0.10 plugins installed. It's perheps some kind of conflict? – Dusan Milosevic Apr 27 '14 at 11:43
  • No, it will remove all the packages/apps depending on them – Sylvain Pineau Apr 27 '14 at 11:45
  • Try instead to rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry*.bin to see if that works and log out+ log in – Sylvain Pineau Apr 27 '14 at 11:46
  • I did that and restarted computer. Clementine gives the same errors. Totem at first refused to play wma, but was succesfull on second try. It might be because I tried to play wma right after restart. Thank you for your support. Any more suggestions? :D – Dusan Milosevic Apr 27 '14 at 11:54
  • I've updated my answer with the steps to install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg on 14.04 (it worked for me) – Sylvain Pineau Apr 27 '14 at 12:24
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    Thank you for this solution. Worked perfectly for me as well! – Adam Brisebois Oct 18 '14 at 13:27
  • Some 'Beatles' songs in wma format took me here. Problem solved. I can listen to them now. Thanks Sylvain. – Jeevan Patil Dec 22 '14 at 17:29
  • 14.10 gives me: Falhou obter http://ppa.launchpad.net/mc3man/trusty-media/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found (Falhou obter = Failed to obtain) – Sardinha Apr 21 '15 at 13:11
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    @Sardinha94410: I've updated my answer to use a 14.10 enabled ppa – Sylvain Pineau Apr 21 '15 at 13:31
  • @Sylvian Pineau: Of course it doesn't have found it! That piece of code /trusty-media/... Thanks for the update! – Sardinha Apr 21 '15 at 14:50
  • I think this answer should be updated to use only the "gstffmpeg-keep" ppa, for all Ubuntu versions, as it contains only the package we need here, and works for 14.04. No need to get all the other updates the first ppa would offer. – stragu Apr 30 '15 at 00:57
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    @chtfn: Thanks for your advice (and the confirmation that it works for 14.04). Answer updated – Sylvain Pineau May 01 '15 at 07:55
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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
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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
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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

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