Pacman -Ss dont find a package that actually exists -gstreamer0.10-mad

Hi everyone. I'm new to Archlinux but not to Linux. I had problems to play mp3s on rhythmbox cause the appropiate gstreamer plugin to decode mp3 was not installed, so i search with pacman:
pacman -Ss gstreamer
. And it find some packages related to gstreamer but not gstreamer0.10-mad and some others like *-vorbis for instance. So i tried installing one by one gstreamer packages appearing in pacman results and openning rhythmbox to see if it works, but it didnt with some tries, so searching google realized that the package gstreamer0.10-mad was neccesary to play mp3s by gstreamer and installed it by pacman -S ... The thing is that when i need a new package or app but didnt know package's name, i obviously search it by pacman -Ss, but problems like this would make my mind to say that searched app or package doesnt exists in archlinux repositories.
So, there's another pacman option to correctly do that?, or its just a bug with some packages?. Thanks a lot

Nope.
"Provides" here just means that the "gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins" provides the same functionality as "gstreamer0.10-mad". When an application says "I need gstreamer0.10-mad", "gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins" steps in and says "I can do everything that "...-mad" can do and more, use me instead.
In your case you need certain libraries. Those libraries are in the "...-ugly-plugins" package. There is no way to search each package for every single library it contains without downloading it, but in this case because there's a "provides" line, pacman is able to figure out what will do what you need when you search for "...-mad" directly, even though there is no such package (nor group).
I agree that you should be able to search for "provides" equivalents though.

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