Cover Art not showing in WDMyCloud when converting from m4a to mp3

[Peter Jones]

SoundConvertor Verion: 3.0.2
Distro: Ubuntu 19.10 (Testing) - I'm using this so I can make sure I have the latest version of SoundConvertor

This is rather an odd one.

I use a NAS called a WDMyCloud EX2 Ultra, and also use get-iplayer which is a program for downloading BBC Radio shows:

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer

The script downloads the file and tags with an image from the BBC website.

When I convert to mp3 with SoundConvertor I don't see the image preview in the MyCloud Application (Image attached)

However if I use either of these FFMPEG commands it works fine:

ffmpeg -i *.m4a ffmpegquick.mp3

ffmpeg -i *.m4a -acodec libmp3lame -aq 2 ffmpegoptions.mp3

The odd thing is that the WDMyCloud box includes an implementation of Twonky and all the images appear fine in there. The images also show fine in VLC and BubbleUPnP.

I followed the instructions on the SoundConvertor Homepage to install dependencies for MP3 conversion and I just get an error 'Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly is virtual.

I can provide the m4a file if required. Thanks in advance.

This is the debug:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ soundconverter --debug
  id3mux gstreamer element not found
  faac gstreamer element not found
SoundConverter 3.0.2
/usr/share/soundconverter/python/soundconverter/ui.py:1465: Warning: g_value_type_transformable: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_VALUE (src_type)' failed
  builder.add_from_file(gladefile)

(SoundConverter:12867): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:27:44.459: ../../../../gtk/gtkliststore.c:836: Unable to convert from (null) to gchararray
analysing file integrity
Queue start: 1 tasks, 16 thread(s).
launching: 'giosrc location="file:///home/ubuntu/Desktop/How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a" ! decodebin name=decoder ! fakesink'
adding: 1 files
have_type: audio/x-m4a How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a
mime: .m4a audio/x-m4a
Queue done in 0.048s (1 tasks)
Added 1 files in 0.05s (scan 0.00s, add 0.05s)
Queue start: 1 tasks, 16 thread(s).
launching: 'giosrc location="file:///home/ubuntu/Desktop/How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a" name=src ! decodebin name=decoder ! audiorate ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! lamemp3enc encoding-engine-quality=2 target=quality cbr=false quality=3 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux ! giosink location="file:///home/ubuntu/Desktop/How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a~979793~SC~"'
found_tags: How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a
    {'title': 'Harry Worth'}
    {'artist': 'BBC Radio 4 Extra'}
    {'album-artist': 'BBC Radio'}
    {'album': 'How Tickled Am I?: Series 3'}
    {'year': 2008, 'date': '2008-10-26'}
    {'track-number': '4'}
    {'album-disc-number': '3'}
    {'genre': 'Factual'}
/home/ubuntu/Desktop/How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a~979793~SC~ -> /home/ubuntu/Desktop/How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.mp3
Creating folder 'file:///home/ubuntu/Desktop'?
Queue done in 26.798s (1 tasks)
/usr/share/soundconverter/python/soundconverter/ui.py:1366: PyGIWarning: Unity was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Unity', '7.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
  from gi.repository import Unity
closing...

[Peter Jones (jonesypeter)]

I ran the following the try and install what appears to be a missing gstreamer package:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly libdvd-pkg
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

https://websiteforstudents.com/how-to-install-video-audio-codecs-on-ubuntu-18-10-18-04-16-04-lts/

I still don't see the image previews inside my WDMyCloud webpage.

Now the debug report shows:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ soundconverter --debug
  faac gstreamer element not found
SoundConverter 3.0.2
/usr/share/soundconverter/python/soundconverter/ui.py:1465: Warning: g_value_type_transformable: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_VALUE (src_type)' failed
  builder.add_from_file(gladefile)

(SoundConverter:20519): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:38:13.303: ../../../../gtk/gtkliststore.c:836: Unable to convert from (null) to gchararray
analysing file integrity
Queue start: 1 tasks, 16 thread(s).
launching: 'giosrc location="file:///home/ubuntu/Desktop/How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a" ! decodebin name=decoder ! fakesink'
adding: 1 files
have_type: audio/x-m4a How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a
mime: .m4a audio/x-m4a
Queue done in 0.050s (1 tasks)
Added 1 files in 0.06s (scan 0.00s, add 0.05s)
Queue start: 1 tasks, 16 thread(s).
launching: 'giosrc location="file:///home/ubuntu/Desktop/How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a" name=src ! decodebin name=decoder ! audiorate ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! lamemp3enc encoding-engine-quality=2 target=quality cbr=false quality=3 ! xingmux ! id3mux ! giosink location="file:///home/ubuntu/Desktop/How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a~020153~SC~"'
found_tags: How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a
    {'title': 'Harry Worth'}
    {'artist': 'BBC Radio 4 Extra'}
    {'album-artist': 'BBC Radio'}
    {'album': 'How Tickled Am I?: Series 3'}
    {'year': 2008, 'date': '2008-10-26'}
    {'track-number': '4'}
    {'album-disc-number': '3'}
    {'genre': 'Factual'}
/home/ubuntu/Desktop/How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.m4a~020153~SC~ -> /home/ubuntu/Desktop/How_Tickled_Am_I_Series_3_-_4._Harry_Worth_b00f670x_shortened.mp3
Creating folder 'file:///home/ubuntu/Desktop'?
Queue done in 28.678s (1 tasks)
/usr/share/soundconverter/python/soundconverter/ui.py:1366: PyGIWarning: Unity was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Unity', '7.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
  from gi.repository import Unity
closing...
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$

[Peter Jones (jonesypeter)]

This is possibly linked:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/soundconverter/+bug/1647884