I t looks like Deadbeef player should convert between different audio formats just by right-clicking and selecting "Convert"
But after that and a few seconds of delay as if working nothing happens.
Has anybody used it successfully and how?
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I t looks like Deadbeef player should convert between different audio formats just by right-clicking and selecting "Convert"
But after that and a few seconds of delay as if working nothing happens.
Has anybody used it successfully and how?
Best Answer
The deadbeef player's .deb package has some errors in it's control file. It does not properly lists it's dependencies for some of it's components. For example, conversion to .aac format from .mp3 format requires
faac
, but it doesn't list that.I played it from terminal and tried to convert a .mp3 file to .aac file. The output is given below:
And when I clicked on the convert button. The output was as follows:
Which clearly indicates, the conversion requires
faac
package which isn't installed and wasn't in it's dependency list either!I installed
faac
package with this commandand after installation, the conversion successfully completed and the output was as follows:
The list of packages you need for conversion:
For AAC -
faac
package. Install it withFor FLAC -
flac
package. Install it withFor MP3 -
lame
package. Install it withFor MS RIFF WAV - No package is needed
For MusePack -
musepack-tools
package. Install it withFor Ogg Vorbis -
vorbis-tools
package. Install it withFor wavpack -
wavpack
package. Install it withFor TTA - I didn't find a package for it. But it is very easy to get or compile from source.
Go to this Ubuntu forum post.
Download the attached source of
ttaenc
package.Extract it to your home directory.
Open a terminal and go to the extracted folder.
Use these commands to install it
Now, you can use the TTA conversion also.
For TTA conversion: Credit goes to this forum post
To get the proper file names and to set output location:
%a - %t [%l]
will produce something like Artist - Title [1:23]. More on title formatting, here.