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

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2015-05-19 9:19 GMT+02:00 Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no>:

>
> I suggest you upgrade your version of soundconverter if possible, a
> quick search reveals you can find it for trusty here:
> http://www.getdeb.net/app/SoundConverter
>
> That's the same version I have, but I take no responsibility on the
> security aspects of installing packages from unknown sources :)
>


I couldn't install it from the link you gave me. Clicking Install just got
me to the Ubuntu graphical user interface for software install and
installed Sound Converter 2.0.4 again…
However, now that I know there is a 2.1.5 version for Ubuntu, I did som
more searching and found that there is a PPA:

wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key
add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb apps"
>> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
(replace ”trusty” above with the current Ubuntu version)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install soundconverter

I did a quick test with one of my 24-bit FLACs and it seemed to work.

Here are the stats of the flac- and mp3 file respectively:
$ stats Night\ Drive.flac
             Overall     Left      Right
DC offset  -0.000020 -0.000020 -0.000014
Min level  -0.988554 -0.988554 -0.988554
Max level   0.988554  0.988554  0.988554
Pk lev dB      -0.10     -0.10     -0.10
RMS lev dB    -15.01    -14.61    -15.45
RMS Pk dB      -5.95     -5.95     -7.58
RMS Tr dB    -132.81   -132.81   -132.72
Crest factor       -      5.31      5.85
Flat factor     0.00      0.00      0.00
Pk count           6         4         8
Bit-depth      24/24     24/24     24/24
Num samples    6.39M
Length s     144.945
Scale max   1.000000
Window s       0.050
$ stats Night\ Drive.mp3
             Overall     Left      Right
DC offset  -0.000022 -0.000022 -0.000021
Min level  -1.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000
Max level   1.000000  1.000000  1.000000
Pk lev dB       0.00      0.00      0.00
RMS lev dB    -15.01    -14.61    -15.45
RMS Pk dB      -5.96     -5.96     -7.58
RMS Tr dB     -96.93    -96.93    -96.88
Crest factor       -      5.38      5.92
Flat factor     2.89      2.88      2.91
Pk count         270       320       221
Bit-depth      29/29     29/29     29/29
Num samples    6.39M
Length s     144.953
Scale max   1.000000
Window s       0.050
$

So ”RMS Tr dB” tells me that the FLAC is 24-bit and the mp3 is 16-bit. The
funny thing is the following line for the mp3 file:
Bit-depth      29/29     29/29     29/29

Oh, and my ”stats” command is just a simple bash function that I load at
login:
function stats () {
sox "$1" -n stats
}
I guess I could have done it as an alias, but obviously I didn't and I
don't remember why…

So I guess sox isn't very good at figuring out bit depth of mp3 files.
Anyway, the new Sound Converter seems to work and that's great. Thanks for
your suggestions, everybody!



Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
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