Anyone else having problems with Sound Converter 2.0.4 (Ubuntu 14.04)?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2015-05-17 13:42 GMT+02:00 Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no>:

> On Sun, 17 May 2015 13:21:10 +0200
> Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Having a FLAC-file, 44.1 kHz, 24 bits, stereo.
> > Right click → Open with… → Sound Converter → Settings → mp3, CBR,
> > ”Insanely high” quality (which seems to be 320 kb/s) → OK.
> > Clicking convert. A dialogue pops up with an error message in Swedish.
> > Translated to English it goes something like this:
> >
> > GStreamer error:
> > GStreamer ran into a general error.
> > (<Name of my FLAC file>)
> >
> > I have used Sound Converter 2.0.4 (and earlier versions) to convert
> > files exactly like this one (FLAC 24 bit 44.1 kHz) to exactly the
> > same mp3 format many many times before without any kinds of trouble.
> >
> > I tried with several FLAC files, even those that ran successfully
> > before with Sound Converter 2.0.4. No luck. The files play without
> > any problems in Audacious, Totem and Audacity.
> >
> > Sound Converter 2.0.4 came with Ubuntu 14.04, I didn't do anything
> > with it, as far as I remember. If it wasn't installed by default, I
> > guess I installed it, but in that case I am sure I installed it from
> > the repositories with ”apt-get install”.
> >
> > Anyone seen this before? Hints?
>
> Is it possible that you might be missing a gstreamer plugin? I'm unsure
> of which version of gstreamer Sound Converter uses (and I'm too lazy to
> check), but try installing either
>
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
>

I have both of them, and that seems to be what Sound Converter 2.0.4 wants.


>
> or
>
> gstreamer1.0-plugins-good and gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
>

I have those too. And I also have gstreamer0.1-plugins-bad and
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad installed.

I ended up converting my file with sox instead, which worked fine, but I
still would like Sound Converter 2.0.4 to work.


>
> (depending on whether Sound Converter uses gstreamer 0.10 or 1.0).
>
> The *good packages contain the FLAC plugin, and *ugly has MP3. Maybe
> you will also need LAME itself to output MP3, I'm not sure.
>

I got the same error when converting to Ogg Vorbis, so that doesn't seem to
be the problem in this case.


>
> Then try again.
>
> Petter
>
> PS: OK, I checked; you want the 0.10 packages :)
>

Have them, still doesn't work. :(
Does it work for you? Or maybe you have a different version?

Thanks.

Johnny Rosenberg

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