[SOLVED] Rhythmbox won't play FLAC, wma and m4a files

The errors it gives:
For m4a:
Additional GStreamer plugins are required to play this file: MPEG-4 AAC decoder
For FLAC:
The MIME type of this file could not be identified
For wma:
Additional GStreamer plugins are required to play this file: Windows Media Audio 8 decoder
My gstreamer packages installed:
$yaourt -Qs gstreamer
==> Query installed packages
extra/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.19-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugin libraries (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-base-git 20100721-1 (gstreamer)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-git 20100721-1 (gstreamer)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework
extra/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.23-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good plugin libraries
extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.23-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins (gst-plugins-good)
extra/gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.18-1
    Python bindings for GStreamer 0.10
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly-git 20100721-1 (gstreamer)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly plugins
extra/totem 2.30.2-1 (gnome-extra)
    A GNOME2 integrated movie player based on Gstreamer.
Thanks, kradle
UPDATE:
After installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg wma files and FLAC files seem to play fine (but I think the FLAC files I tried to play before were just damaged and that this is irrelevant)
Only m4a does not work now
UPDATE:
m4a after installing gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins.
At first I did not manage to do this because I had ffmpeg-svn installed, so I installed ffmpeg and removed ffmpeg-svn, installed libvpx and removed libvpx-git and not it works perfectly.
Last edited by kradle (2010-07-22 03:29:27)

Obi-Lan wrote:Are you in audio group?
yup. I ran
gpasswd -a karam audio
before running rhythmbox. Actually this seems to be a gstreamer issue as my audio works in most software but i have no playback in rhythmbox or quod libet. well i am going to switch to mpd/sonata and see if i can get that to work. i was never a big fan of rhythmbox anyway as it has no id3 tag editing support.

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