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

[Petter Adsen]

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"

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.

> > 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.

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.
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.

Petter

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