Bug#840373: Instructions are wrong for MP3 conversion

2016-10-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Akkana Peck wrote:
> The instructions also say to add the deb-multimedia repository to
> apt sources; but even after I did that,

This is nearly always wrong for all but very unusual requirements and I am
a bit shocked to see upstreams still recommend it!

> I know the page is part of the upstream project, but I'm hesitant to
> be the one to tell them to change it in case there are other
> versions of Debian for which it's right. Maybe they need to specify
> different instructions for different Debian versions?

Lame and its gstreamer plugin are available in all supported Debian
releases. The only difference is that it's gstreamer0.10-* in oldstable
and gstreamer1.0-* in stable and newer, AFAICT.

> Versions of packages soundconverter suggests:
> pn  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly  

Maybe this should get promoted to a Recommends and everything will be fine.

 - Fabian



Bug#840373: Instructions are wrong for MP3 conversion

2016-10-10 Thread Akkana Peck
Package: soundconverter
Version: 3.0.0~alpha1+git20151209-1
Severity: normal

soundconverter -b -m "audio/mpeg" -s ".mp3" stopped working for me,
saying:
"lamemp3enc" gstreamer element not found, disabling MP3 output.

The problem turned out to be that although I had
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly installed (as the instructions on
http://soundconverter.org/gstreamer-mp3-encoding-howto/ ,
pointed to by the link in soundconverter's Preferences window,
recommend) what it actually needs now is gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly.

The instructions also say to add the deb-multimedia repository to
apt sources; but even after I did that,
apt-cache policy gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
says it's coming from
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
and doesn't say anything about deb-multimedia. So I think that
part must be wrong too.

I know the page is part of the upstream project, but I'm hesitant to
be the one to tell them to change it in case there are other
versions of Debian for which it's right. Maybe they need to specify
different instructions for different Debian versions?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages soundconverter depends on:
ii  gir1.2-gconf-2.0   3.2.6-3
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.01.50.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0   1.8.3-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.22.1-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base  1.8.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.8.3-1+b1
ii  python3-gi 3.22.0-1
pn  python3:any

Versions of packages soundconverter recommends:
ii  gir1.2-notify-0.7   0.7.6-2
pn  gstreamer1.0-libav  

Versions of packages soundconverter suggests:
pn  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly  

-- no debconf information