converting shn to flac with SoundConverter

[Curt Tresenriter]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:20:08 -0700
ZP <zukeprime at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:03:30 -0600
> Curt Tresenriter <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
> >I've got both gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly (1.2.3-2build1) and
> >gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly (0.10.19-2ubuntu5) installed.
> >
> >SoundConverter is v. 2.14
> >
> 
> ----------
> I'm definitely not an expert on soundconverter, so take this with a
> grain of salt. Hopefully, someone with more experience will chime in.
> I'm just a "tinkerer." :D
> 
> Here are a couple of suggestions for your consideration.
> 
> 1) apt-get remove --purge soundconverter, then reinstall the packages
> in the ubuntu repo. There may be a compatibility issue with the
> plugins and the version you're running (2.1.4)
> 
> 2) If you pulled down 2.1.4. from the dev's git repo (I only assume
> this since Utopic is running 2.1.3), do they have updates to the
> plugins? That may be something to look for.
> 
> Your plugin versions seem to be out of date, but perhaps you're on an
> older release, which may indicate plugin incompatibility...but that's
> not definite (note that I'm on Utopic, so if you're on Trusty, it'll
> be different). This may indicate changes to gstreamer or
> soundconverter make SC incompatible with older plugin versions, etc.
> 
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-base	0.10.36-2
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good	0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly	0.10.19-2ubuntu5
> gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly	1.4.2-1
> 
> 3) Another option is to ask this on the Ubuntu-Studio mailing list,
> since they've probably dealt with bleeding edge audio file issues.
> 
> Sorry I couldn't help any more than that.
> ZP
> 
All good suggestions ZP, thanks for your input!