From davidsansome on September 22, 2010 08:45:54

You're missing the "volume" element - check you've installed it properly, try running "gst-inspect volume". It should come from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvolume.so

From elan.ruusamae on September 23, 2010 03:20:04

thanks for the hint, in fact i had volume element present, but debugging that lead me to that my registry was corrupted. removing it solved the problem

12:57:48 glen[load: 0.22]@blodnatt ~$ gst-inspect volume
No such element or plugin 'volume'

12:57:48 glen[load: 0.22]@blodnatt ~$ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvolume.so
gstreamer-audio-effects-base-0.10.30-1.x86_64

13:09:11 glen[load: 2.06]@blodnatt lib64/gstreamer-0.10$ gst-inspect libgstvolume.so
Plugin Details:
Name: libgstvolume.so
Description: Plugin for blacklisted file
Filename: /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvolume.so
Version: 0.0.0
License: BLACKLIST
Source module: BLACKLIST
Binary package: BLACKLIST
Origin URL: BLACKLIST

0 features:

13:10:11 glen[load: 2.38]@blodnatt lib64/gstreamer-0.10$ gst-inspect /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvolume.so
Plugin Details:
Name: volume
Description: plugin for controlling audio volume
Filename: /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvolume.so
Version: 0.10.30
License: LGPL
Source module: gst-plugins-base
Binary package: GStreamer Base Plug-ins source release
Origin URL: Unknown package origin

volume: Volume

1 features:
+-- 1 elements

rm -f ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.x86_64.bin

13:19:45 glen[load: 1.20]@blodnatt lib64/gstreamer-0.10$ gst-inspect volume
Factory Details:
Long name: Volume
Class: Filter/Effect/Audio
Description: Set volume on audio/raw streams
Author(s): Andy Wingo wingo@pobox.com
Rank: none (0)

Plugin Details:
Name: volume
Description: plugin for controlling audio volume
Filename: /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvolume.so
Version: 0.10.30
License: LGPL
Source module: gst-plugins-base
Binary package: GStreamer Base Plug-ins source release
Origin URL: Unknown package origin

GObject
+----GstObject
+----GstElement
+----GstBaseTransform
+----GstAudioFilter
+----GstVolume
....

From davidsansome on September 23, 2010 03:27:21

Status: Invalid

From Sascha.Aegerter on April 11, 2013 03:49:05

I have the same problem:
GStreamer could not create the element: volume. Please make sure that you have installed all necessary GStreamer plugins (e.g. OGG and MP3)

in clementine on Ubuntu 12.10

I can, however, run clementine as root and it works.
How can I install libgstvolume.so on my system?

From davidsansome on April 11, 2013 04:46:30

Try deleting the registry files in your ~/.gstreamer-* directory

From Sascha.Aegerter on April 26, 2013 20:09:44

Thanks a lot! That did it! Sorry for late reply.

[SOLVED]

I met the same issue:
GStreamer could not create the element: volume. Please make sure that you have installed all necessary GStreamer plugins (e.g. OGG and MP3)
in clementine_1.2.3.jessie_i386, can open and failed to play audio with the above error message.
Thanks!