[intrepid] soundconverter always freezes after adding a file

[Leonard Michlmayr]

Binary package hint: soundconverter

Yesterday I discovered that soundconverter freezes (compiz makes the window gray) when I add a file to the list. It shows "Einlesen der Metainformationen..." (reading metainfo) above the file name.

Soundconverter is completely unusable in this state. I think it happens since yesterdays update, but I changed some settings at the same time.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: soundconverter 1.3.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
SourcePackage: soundconverter
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic x86_64

[Brian Parma (bj0)]

I'm getting this on my box when I try to add a m4a/m4b file, either by menu or by drag and drop. It freezes with "loading tags..." above the filename.

I didn't get this problem when adding ogg, flac, or mp3 files.

i'm using Ubuntu 8.10

[themuddler (mike-udall)]

I'm also getting this. Happens on some .wma files and it freezes while some still have the "loading tags" against them. Killing soundconverter and restarting it gets around the problem but some files consistently crash it. I can provide them if it helps - but they're copyrighted (by someone else). Would it be acceptable to attach just the first portion of the file or whichever portion is probably causing the trouble?

[Nathaniel Wilson (dubrict)]

I can confirm this issue on Ubuntu Jaunty. It happens consistently with m4a files.

[Nathaniel Wilson (dubrict)]

Correction:

It's actually only happening with m4p files for me. These are encrypted audio, but soundconverter should be able to figure that out without freezing.

[GautierPortet (kassoulet)]

You can fix the problem by editing soundconverter.py:

@@ -1097,7 +1095,7 @@ class TagReader(Decoder):
    pass

  def work(self):
- if not self.pipeline:
+ if not self.pipeline or self.eos:
    return False

[GautierPortet (kassoulet)]

Fixed in 1.4.3

[Linus Hoppe (linus-hoppe-deactivatedaccount)]

Fixed in 1.4.3

[Hew (hew)]

This is not yet fixed in Ubuntu as we do not have that version. Please see bug 335739.

[Pfanne (pfannenwender)]

i tried 1.4.3 as well as 1.4.4 and its still choking on m4b and m4a files

[Pfanne (pfannenwender)]

ignore my last comment...
seemed like i missed some codecs.
now everything works perfectly fine