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

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2015-05-17 18:20 GMT+02:00 Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no>:

> On Sun, 17 May 2015 17:44:52 +0200
> Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2015-05-17 13:42 GMT+02:00 Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no>:
> > > (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 I am not sure. You might want to try something like this:
>
> "LANG=C soundconverter"
>

Thanks, I didn't know about that.

”GStreamer encountered a general stream error.”


>
> in a terminal to get English error messages, and report back the exact
> messages you get. Also try to Google it, I'm not terribly familiar with
> gstreamer myself.
>

I found a thread with a similar problem, but they solved it by ticking
”Resample” in Preferences. That didn't work for me.

However, after some experimenting, I found that I only have problems with
24-bit FLAC files. I tried a few 16-bit files and it worked. I even
converted the 24-bit one to 16-bit (with Sox), then I could convert to MP3…

So it appears to be a 24-bit issue, but I'm pretty sure that issue didn't
exist in earlier versions, because all of my own FLAC files (those that I
recorded myself) are always 24-bit and those are usually the only ones I
convert to anything (since my car's CD player doesn't accept anything else
than MP3 and pure Audio CDs). So do I actually need to convert twice now?
Also, I can't convert from Flac 24-bit to Flac 16-bit with SoundConverter,
I did that with Sox, as I said.

I could of course try to install an older version of SoundConverter, just
to see if it works, I guess…


>
> > > 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?
>
> I don't even have soundconverter installed :) Also, I'm on vivid, and
> the version in the repos is 2.1.5-1, gstreamer and its plugins are also
> likely newer than what you have, so there is little point in me
> installing it to check. The entire chain would be different.
>

Well, if you (or someone else) tested it and it works, I could try to
install that version from source…
If you don't have any 24-bit Flacs, you can easily create one in Audacity.


>
> Another possibility is to try a program called XCFA (if I remember
> correctly) - it can convert between different formats. There is also
> soundkonverter from the K* family, although I have not used it myself.
>

Well, I have Sox and it works, so one easy thing to do would probably be to
create a simple graphical user interface for it with Yad in a Bash script…
or not; I use the terminal pretty much anyway.


> That last one will of course drag in a lot of stuff like phonon, Qt and
> several KDE libraries if you (like me) don't have them already. Both of
> these have several Recommends that you would probably like to consider
> installing.
>
> Also see if soundconverter has a command line option to enable verbose
> or debug output, that could be helpful in figuring out what is
> happening.
>

Thanks.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ


By the way, and WAY OFF TOPIC – stop read here if that bothers you much,
you are from Norway, right? I've not been there for maybe 15 years or so,
but I'm planning to drive around there for some time next vacation. When I
was there last time, there were no… whatever that is called in English…
”vägtullar” or ”vägavgifter”… tolls? How do they work? Do I need cash and
if so, do I need Norwegian money? Coins or what? Or is it automated in some
way?

Johnny Rosenberg



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