diff --git a/examples/src/bin/playbin.rs b/examples/src/bin/playbin.rs
index 394461ea6..b3d06490b 100644
--- a/examples/src/bin/playbin.rs
+++ b/examples/src/bin/playbin.rs
@@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ fn example_main() {
             // application is via properties, signals or action signals (or custom messages, events, queries).
             // So what the following code does, is essentially asking playbin to tell us its already
             // internally stored tag list for this stream index.
-            let tags = playbin.emit("get-audio-tags", &[&idx]).unwrap().unwrap();
+            let tags = playbin
+                .emit_by_name("get-audio-tags", &[&idx])
+                .unwrap()
+                .unwrap();
             let tags = tags.get::<gst::TagList>().expect("tags").unwrap();
 
             if let Some(artist) = tags.get::<gst::tags::Artist>() {
diff --git a/examples/src/bin/rtpfecclient.rs b/examples/src/bin/rtpfecclient.rs
index f825d58cc..8312beb4e 100644
--- a/examples/src/bin/rtpfecclient.rs
+++ b/examples/src/bin/rtpfecclient.rs
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ fn connect_rtpbin_srcpad(src_pad: &gst::Pad, sink: &gst::Element) -> Result<(),
 fn make_fec_decoder(rtpbin: &gst::Element, sess_id: u32) -> Result<gst::Element, Error> {
     let fecdec = make_element("rtpulpfecdec", None)?;
     let internal_storage = rtpbin
-        .emit("get-internal-storage", &[&sess_id])
+        .emit_by_name("get-internal-storage", &[&sess_id])
         .unwrap()
         .unwrap()
         .get::<glib::Object>()
diff --git a/tutorials/src/bin/basic-tutorial-5.rs b/tutorials/src/bin/basic-tutorial-5.rs
index 31b985a2b..1decd3343 100644
--- a/tutorials/src/bin/basic-tutorial-5.rs
+++ b/tutorials/src/bin/basic-tutorial-5.rs
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ mod tutorial5 {
         match playbin.get_property(propname).unwrap().get() {
             Ok(Some(x)) => {
                 for i in 0..x {
-                    let tags = playbin.emit(signame, &[&i]).unwrap().unwrap();
+                    let tags = playbin.emit_by_name(signame, &[&i]).unwrap().unwrap();
 
                     if let Ok(Some(tags)) = tags.get::<gst::TagList>() {
                         textbuf.insert_at_cursor(&format!("{} stream {}:\n ", stype, i));
diff --git a/tutorials/src/bin/playback-tutorial-4.rs b/tutorials/src/bin/playback-tutorial-4.rs
index ecb9107e3..7a2eea901 100644
--- a/tutorials/src/bin/playback-tutorial-4.rs
+++ b/tutorials/src/bin/playback-tutorial-4.rs
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ fn tutorial_main() -> Result<(), Error> {
         .set_by_nick("download")
         .build()
         .unwrap();
-    pipeline.set_property_generic("flags", &flags).unwrap();
+    pipeline.set_property_with_value("flags", &flags).unwrap();
 
     // Uncomment this line to limit the amount of downloaded data.
     // pipeline.set_property("ring-buffer-max-size", &4_000_000u64)?;