I did some troubleshooting today: This bug is not present in Maverick running as a virtual machine in Virtualbox. Back to Natty: Converting a flac file as described above as a different user yielded the same result, which should rule out errors caused by defect config files in my home dir. I tried building soundconverter from source code in different variations. First the one distributed with Ubuntu (apt-get source soundconverter; fakeroot debian/rules binary; dpkg -i soundconverter_1.4.4-2_all.deb), the same version from upstream (tar xf soundconverter-1.4.4.tar.bz2; ./configure; sudo checkinstall) and the latest upstream version (tar xf soundconverter-1.5.4.tar.gz; ./configure; sudo checkinstall). All of these were affected by this bug.
This might be a backend issue. The version of Soundconverter shipped with Natty gives this startup message: SoundConverter 1.4.4 using Gstreamer version: 0.10.32, Python binding version: 0.10.21 using gio using 4 thread(s) While in Maverick the startup message is: SoundConverter 1.4.4 ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject) using Gstreamer version: 0.10.30, Python binding version: 0.10.19 using gio 'lame' element not found, disabling MP3. 'faac' element not found, disabling AAC. using 2 thread(s) I'll look around and try to find out how much pain it is to update Gstreamer to 0.10.32 in Maverick. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/796744 Title: Regression: Encoding Vorbis from FLAC source causes audible artefacts at regular intervals To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/soundconverter/+bug/796744/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
