cannot write converted files to home directory

[Amran]

Binary package hint: soundconverter

Release info:
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

Package version:
soundconverter:
  Installed: 1.3.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.3.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.3.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Output at terminal:
SoundConverter 1.3.2
  using Gstreamer version: 0.10.20, Python binding version: 0.10.12
  using gio
  'faac' element not found, disabling AAC.
  using 2 thread(s)
error: could not parse URI ()
Queue done in 0s
Queue done in 0s
error: Could not open resource for reading. (07 - Immigrant.flac)
Cannot set permission on '/home/amran/Nitin Sawhney-Immigrant.mp3'
Queue done in 0s

i added a flac file, set conversion to MP3 and set it on its merry way. seems it doesnt like outputting the file to my home dir

if i tell it to save the file in /home/amran/Desktop it works correctly

[Tan Kah Ping (kahping)]

I can confirm this. Converting audio files when the destination folder is your home folder, soundconverter will just happily run as if nothing's wrong except that the conversion doesn't output anything (except in terminal)

[Eric Krieger (grammatoncleric)]

I also can confirm this. Bug still exists in the final release of Intrepid Ibex.

[Jeldert (jeldert)]

When manually setting the home dorectory as output folder SoundConverter is able to create the files there.

[GautierPortet (kassoulet)]

Cannot reproduce... Still there in 1.4.2 ?

[Amran (amx109)]

im afraid im still using 1.3.2 on ubuntu 8.10

i think 1.4.1 is in jaunty universe. i'll upgrade once its released; if the
bug exists in jaunty i'll file another bug report under that distribution

hope that helps?

ta

amran

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:19 PM, GautierPortet <email address hidden> wrote:

> Cannot reproduce... Still there in 1.4.2 ?
>
> --
> cannot write converted files to home directory
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273350
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[Janne (jjohanss)]

Jaunty still has this bug.

[GautierPortet (kassoulet)]

Pfff I'm afraid I'm really lost here... Just impossible to reproduce.

I managed to fix a minor issue: I will now display an error dialog when something bad like this happen. But impossible to reproduce this behavior.

Can somebody reproduce this while running with --debug option and paste here the resulting output please?

[Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox)]

I use soundconvert 1.3.2 on Intrepid 64bit

debug.txt is attached, unfortunately, some messages are in French....

It can be traduced like this:

launching: 'giosrc location="file:///home/lox/Musique/JVDK/Best%20of/05%20-%20JVDK.mp3" name=src ! decodebin name=decoder ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc quality=0.6 ! oggmux ! giosink location=/home/lox/05%20-%20JVDK.ogg'
error: Can't read from ressource. (05 - JVDK.mp3)
Can't change permissions of '/home/lox/05 - JVDK.ogg'
Queue done in 0s

The file I am trying to convert is in folder /home/user/Musique/JVDK/Best of

$ ls -lah | grep JVDK
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 4,3M 2008-11-04 09:27 05 - JVDK.mp3

I also tried without any space character in path and file name: same behavior.

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

I'm using 1.3.2 on Intrepid 64-bit and was able to write both files and directories to my home directory...

[GautierPortet (kassoulet)]

So my progress so far: this is caused by the destination location, as you can see it's an absolute path name instead of an URI. Now I have to find why :)