diff --git a/src/playbin.vala b/src/playbin.vala
index 121fa19..1148b88 100644
--- a/src/playbin.vala
+++ b/src/playbin.vala
@@ -125,12 +125,6 @@ class Playbin : GLib.Object {
     public Playbin () {
         this.next_uri.push ("");
 
-        // gstreamer docs: GNOME-based applications, for example, will usually
-        // want to create gconfaudiosink and gconfvideosink elements and make
-        // playbin3 use those, so that output happens to whatever the user has
-        // configured in the GNOME Multimedia System Selector configuration dialog.
-        this.playbin.audio_sink = Gst.ElementFactory.make ("gconfaudiosink", null);
-
         this.playbin.source_setup.connect (this.source_setup);
         this.playbin.about_to_finish.connect (this.about_to_finish);