Strawberry: Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in while streaming radio service

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I am using Strawberry app to listen to music and I want to stream radio services in strawberry but I am getting this message

Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in

but when I cross checked I find every thing is installed

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See the optional dependencies for strawberry

pacman -Si strawberry

Optional Deps   : gst-libav: additional codecs
                  gst-plugins-bad: additional codecs
                  gst-plugins-ugly: additional codecs
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I am getting is this:

Repository      : community
Name            : strawberry
Version         : 0.9.3-3
Description     : A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.strawbs.org/
Licenses        : GPL3
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : qt6-base  chromaprint  protobuf  gst-plugins-base  gst-plugins-good  udisks2  libcdio
                  libgpod  libmtp  fftw
Optional Deps   : gst-libav: additional codecs
                  gst-plugins-bad: additional codecs
                  gst-plugins-ugly: additional codecs
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 5.52 MiB
Installed Size  : 14.13 MiB
Packager        : Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Monday 21 June 2021 01:04:39 AM
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature
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Right, that’s the full output. Were focusing on the Optional Deps here. :wink: You may be missing them.

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those optional deps are also installed
Using:

pacman -Qs gst-plugins

Output:

local/gst-plugins-bad 1.18.4-11
    Multimedia graph framework - bad plugins
local/gst-plugins-bad-libs 1.18.4-11
    Multimedia graph framework - bad
local/gst-plugins-base 1.18.4-1
    Multimedia graph framework - base plugins
local/gst-plugins-base-libs 1.18.4-1
    Multimedia graph framework - base
local/gst-plugins-good 1.18.4-2
    Multimedia graph framework - good plugins
local/gst-plugins-ugly 1.18.4-2
    Multimedia graph framework - ugly plugins
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Try deleting the Gstreamer plugin registry file: ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.x86_64.bin

Which service are you streaming from, anyway?

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I am streaming the radio stations

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What radio stations? Am I blind? All I see is streaming support for Subsonic, Tidal and Qobuz.

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Do you mean shoutcast/icecast radio streams like this, or something else?

ArtistsOnLineMusic RADIO – http://fred.torontocast.com:1700/stream
Irish Pub Radio – http://solid24.streamupsolutions.com:8026/live

I do not see a way to add a stream URL in Strawberry but I can add add streams from a .pls or .m3u playlist file

Have you tried any other music players?

Clementine ‘Internet’ tab has better options for accessing radio streams

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You got me!!
In Strawberry i wanted to add the stream url and I live in india and finding a radio stream url is kind of difficult thing

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I checked all the other music and media players on my system and they all support adding a radio stream URL – Audacious, Deadbeef, Qmmp, Quod Libet, VLC, Firefox, Chromium

Radio streams can be added to Strawberry by downloading a playlist file (.pls .m3u
or .xspf) containing the URL. The file can be then be loaded in Strawberry