Hi, Having a bit of trouble getting a Pi3 to play music (mp3) files :( Have a Sound Blaster Play! 3 USB , info below, and I can play the test sound form YaST sound configuration module. Yet when I want to play music using Rhythmbox, there's no sound. I installed PulseAudio but when I run pavucontrol all I get is "Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..." . That message persists even after 5 minutes. The "Audio Mixer" in the xfce setting manager provides me information as in "GStreamer was unable to detect any sound devices. Some sound system specific GStreamer packages may be missing. It may also be a permissions problem." The information is good but doesn't really help me help myself :(, installed gestreamer packages below. If I start "pulseaudio" in a terminal and then run "pavucontrol" the only "Output Device" I can see is the "Dummy Output". Thus it appears that my problem the recognition of the Sound Blaster USB sound device, although YaST sees the device and can play the test sound. Help is appreciated. Thanks, Robert # hwinfo --sound 08: USB 00.0: 0401 Multimedia audio controller [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: dwDZ.FvZfYAT6+w3 Parent ID: ADDn.IKhPgutgmvF SysFS ID: /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0 SysFS BusID: 1-1.3:1.0 Hardware Class: sound Model: "Creative Sound Blaster Play! 3" Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x041e "Creative Technology, Ltd" Device: usb 0x324d "Sound Blaster Play! 3" Revision: "1.06" Serial ID: "00017650" Driver: "snd-usb-audio" Driver Modules: "snd_usb_audio" Speed: 12 Mbps Module Alias: "usb:v041Ep324Dd0106dc00dsc00dp00ic01isc01ip00in00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_usb_audio is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_usb_audio" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #13 (Hub) # rpm -qa | grep gstreamer gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.36-17.1.aarch64 gstreamer-1.8.3-4.1.aarch64 gstreamer-plugins-good-1.8.3-8.1.aarch64 gstreamer-plugins-farstream-0.2.8-3.1.aarch64 libgstreamer-1_0-0-1.8.3-4.1.aarch64 gstreamer-0_10-0.10.36-18.1.aarch64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-1.8.3-4.2.aarch64 gstreamer-plugins-base-1.8.3-7.2.aarch64 gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-lang-0.10.36-17.1.noarch gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.31-20.1.aarch64 libgstreamer-0_10-0-0.10.36-18.1.aarch64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-1.8.3-7.1.aarch64 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-1.1.3-4.2.aarch64 gstreamer-plugin-gstclutter-3_0-3.0.18-3.1.aarch64 -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Distinguished Architect LINUX Team Lead Public Cloud rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo