soundconverter can't detect faac so no conversion to AAC

[Mohammed Sayed]

Binary package hint: soundconverter

No AAC support in soundconverter although I installed the 'faac' package.

Terminal output :
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SoundConverter 1.3.2
  using Gstreamer version: 0.10.21, Python binding version: 0.10.13
  using gio
  'faac' element not found, disabling AAC.
  using 1 thread(s)
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Ubuntu Intrepid fully updated and soundconverter 1.3.2 installed using Synaptic.

[Pieterjan (possid)]

Did you install the 'gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse' package?

Did the trick for me in Ubuntu Jackalope.

[Mohammed Sayed (msayed2004)]

Yup it did it for me to :)
I believe that gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse should be in the "Mark Suggested for Installation" sub-menu.

Thanks.

[GautierPortet (kassoulet)]

SoundConverter needs the faac gstreamer plugin, not the faac program.
As Pieterjan said, you need the gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse package.