Sven Arvidsson wrote: ... > Most likely a problem with Gstreamer, is > gstreamer1.0-alsa installed? thanks! it wasn't. it is now. :) i would have to take all the pulse stuff back out to check if that was the problem. since i've got rhythmbox working again for now i'll leave it alone, but will keep this in mind if i see the error message again. cheers, thanks, songbird