# Running 'mopidy local scan' gives error "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/running-mopidy-local-scan-gives-error-your-gstreamer-installation-is-missing-a-plug-in/579>\
**Category:** Misc\
**Created:** [February 15, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/running-mopidy-local-scan-gives-error-your-gstreamer-installation-is-missing-a-plug-in/579 "2015-02-15T20:33:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![jstn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jstn/32/91_2.png) [@jstn](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jstn)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/running-mopidy-local-scan-gives-error-your-gstreamer-installation-is-missing-a-plug-in/579/1 "2015-02-15T20:33:45Z")

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trying to get mopidy up and going on my mac mini but am running into an error when i scan my local flac media when running “mopidy local scan”.

```
Failed local:track:Counting%20Crows/Counting%20Crows%20-%20Underwater%20Sunshine%20%282012%29%20%5BFLAC%5D/Counting%20Crows%20-%20Underwater%20Sunshine%20%20-%2008.%20Coming%20Around.flac: Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in.

```

i’ve verified that gst-plugins-good has flac support:

```
justin@derp: ~ $ brew info gst-plugins-good
gst-plugins-good: stable 1.4.5 (bottled), HEAD
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/gst-plugins-good/1.4.5 (355 files, 12M) *
  Built from source with: --with-flac, --with-libcdio, --with-esound, --with-jpeg, --with-taglib
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/gst-plugins-good.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: xz ✔, pkg-config ✔
Required: gettext ✔, gst-plugins-base ✔, libsoup ✔
Optional: check ✘, orc ✘, gtk+ ✔, aalib ✘, libcdio ✔, esound ✔, flac ✔, jpeg ✔, libcaca ✘, libdv ✘, libshout ✘, speex ✘, taglib ✔, libpng ✔, libvpx ✘

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any ideas what else i can check?

thanks,

justin

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**Author:** ![jodal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jodal/32/2564_2.png) [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/running-mopidy-local-scan-gives-error-your-gstreamer-installation-is-missing-a-plug-in/579/2 "2015-02-16T21:38:22Z")

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Can you play the file in question with GStreamer directly?

```auto
gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri=file:///path/to/your/media/dir/Counting%20Crows/Counting%20Crows%20-%20Underwater%20Sunshine%20%282012%29%20%5BFLAC%5D/Counting%20Crows%20-%20Underwater%20Sunshine%20%20-%2008.%20Coming%20Around.flac

```

Replace `/path/to/your/media/dir` with the correct path.

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**Author:** ![jstn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jstn/32/91_2.png) [@jstn](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jstn)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/running-mopidy-local-scan-gives-error-your-gstreamer-installation-is-missing-a-plug-in/579/3 "2015-02-16T21:54:53Z")

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I was able to resolve the issue by reinstalling mopidy with the following command:

```
brew install mopidy/mopidy/mopidy

```

not sure why it didn’t work correctly the first time. i followed the docs to the “T”?

thanks for the help,

justin