das
September 12, 2022, 3:54am
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Dear EOS Friends:
For a very long time I use ‘soundconverter’ to change my ogg/flac files to mp3. But now it is not working. The GUI link ‘Application – Sound and Video – Sound Converter’ does not work – the cursor goes on going round and round.
And this is the command line output:
$: soundconverter
I installed it with ‘yay -Syu soundconverter’ and it showed no problem.
Any help anyone?
Try yay -S soundconverter . Syu is used for updating.
das
September 12, 2022, 4:26am
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Nothing changed. Thanks for trying to help anyway.
This might be of some interest.
Greetings lovely community,
I don’t use soundconverter v4.0.1-2 ( Github ) often so I’m not exactly sure when this issue cropped up (last time I used it was about a month ago), but when I try to launch it, nothing happens. Any advice would be much appreciated. When I try to launch it from a terminal I get the following error:
[scott@endeavourOS ~]$ soundconverter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/soundconverter", line 33, in <module>
import pkg_resources
File "/usr/lib/…
Also, in AUR, package is named as soundconverter-git.
Try using yay -S soundconverter-git.
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das
September 12, 2022, 4:45am
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I did but the same results once again:
<<
Should I do ‘yay -Rnc soundconverter’ before ‘yay -S soundconverter-git’?
So many thanks for lingering with me.
Using yay -Rsn soundconverter should be enough. Then use yay -S soundconverter-git.
das
September 12, 2022, 4:53am
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No, exactly the same thing again.
Wait up, I will try to find up the solution.
das
September 12, 2022, 4:55am
9
Thank you so much. You really sound like your name – PhoenixAwakened.
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It seems like there is error with python on your system. If you look at the topic I shared, the error there had shown output of python instances when executed from terminal. But they are not in your case.
das
September 12, 2022, 5:04am
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How to correct the error with python? Reinstall?
To check soundconverter, I installed it on my system now :
~ ❯❯❯ yay soundconverter
2 aur/soundconverter-git 4.0.3+12+gf1611d6-1 (+8 0.00)
A simple sound converter application for GNOME
1 community/soundconverter 4.0.3-1 (239.3 KiB 839.3 KiB)
A simple sound converter application for GNOME
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 1
[sudo] password for deweshk:
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (7) New Version Net Change Download Size
extra/aalib 1.4rc5-14 0.28 MiB 0.13 MiB
extra/gst-plugins-good 1.20.3-1 6.50 MiB 1.96 MiB
extra/gst-python 1.20.3-1 0.13 MiB 0.03 MiB
extra/libshout 1:2.4.6-1 0.19 MiB 0.07 MiB
community/twolame 0.4.0-2 0.24 MiB 0.08 MiB
extra/wavpack 5.5.0-1 0.85 MiB 0.49 MiB
community/soundconverter 4.0.3-1 0.82 MiB 0.23 MiB
Total Download Size: 3.00 MiB
Total Installed Size: 9.01 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
aalib-1.4rc5-14-x86_64 136.3 KiB 27.2 KiB/s 00:05 [--------------------------------------------] 100%
twolame-0.4.0-2-x86_64 78.2 KiB 15.6 KiB/s 00:05 [--------------------------------------------] 100%
soundconverter-4.0.3-1-any 239.3 KiB 47.8 KiB/s 00:05 [--------------------------------------------] 100%
wavpack-5.5.0-1-x86_64 506.9 KiB 97.7 KiB/s 00:05 [--------------------------------------------] 100%
gst-python-1.20.3-1-x86_64 33.8 KiB 60.3 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------------------] 100%
libshout-1:2.4.6-1-x86_64 69.8 KiB 93.4 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------------------] 100%
gst-plugins-good-1.20.3-1-x86_64 2007.8 KiB 166 KiB/s 00:12 [--------------------------------------------] 100%
Total (7/7) 3.0 MiB 243 KiB/s 00:13 [--------------------------------------------] 100%
(7/7) checking keys in keyring [--------------------------------------------] 100%
(7/7) checking package integrity [--------------------------------------------] 100%
(7/7) loading package files [--------------------------------------------] 100%
(7/7) checking for file conflicts [--------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/7) installing wavpack [--------------------------------------------] 100%
(2/7) installing aalib [--------------------------------------------] 100%
(3/7) installing libshout [--------------------------------------------] 100%
(4/7) installing twolame [--------------------------------------------] 100%
(5/7) installing gst-plugins-good [--------------------------------------------] 100%
(6/7) installing gst-python [--------------------------------------------] 100%
(7/7) installing soundconverter [--------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/5) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/5) Compiling GSettings XML schema files...
(3/5) Updating icon theme caches...
(4/5) Updating the info directory file...
(5/5) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...
And after that, I executed it from terminal without any error.
das
September 12, 2022, 5:08am
13
After your suggestion I reinstalled python and reinstalled soundconverter-git once again, without producing any change.
das
September 12, 2022, 5:10am
14
My desktop is Mate – can that be the source of this problem?
das
September 12, 2022, 5:12am
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And I am not at all technical like you people, I am just a teacher in economics and I love floss.
Look at this :
~ ❯❯❯ soundconverter
soundconverter 4.0.3
analysing file integrity
adding: 1 files
Discovered 1 audiofiles in 0.2 s
Everything is going normal.
try executing :
yay -S python-setuptools .
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I am also not a technical person.
das:
My desktop is Mate
I don’t think so. I am using KDE. And this utility is built for GNOME.
das
September 12, 2022, 5:19am
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Thank you. This time it worked. And I did ‘yay -Rns’ with soundconverter-git and did ‘yay -S soundconverter’ and it worked. So many thanks for recovering my ashes dear PhoenixAwakened.
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Thanks sir. Mark the reply as solution which helped you, so that it can be helpful for others with similar issue.
You can update and install new packages at the same time. In fact, when installing from the AUR, it’s a good idea to do so with an updated system.
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