trying to install soundkonverter: timidity-daemon issue

[rfakhrai]

10.04 KDE 4.5.3.

I'm trying to install soundkonverter and I've tried soundconverter and just flac but they are all coming up with the same error

Setting up timidity-daemon (2.13.2-37) ...
 * Stopping TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation...                           [ OK ] 
 * Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation...                              /usr/bin/timidity: error while loading shared libraries: libjack.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
                                                 [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript timidity, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing timidity-daemon (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 timidity-daemon
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So I can tell it's looking for libjack.so.0 which I might have erroneously eliminated when I was cleaning up some stuff I don't use anymore (FFADO, etc.).

How can I get this back so timidity is not broken anymore? I've tried to install qjackctl but with the same error. I'm not understanding what this timidity-daemon thing is all about.

Alternately, if anyone has a good way to convert FLAC to Mp3 (graphical preferably and with batch support) I'm open to suggestions! Mp3 is not one of my options when I go to convert audio in K3b.

UPDATE: I've tried installing LAME and I get the same timidity-daemon error. Hmmm, I'll do more research

[vinnywright]

Re: trying to install soundkonverter: timidity-daemon issue

winff (using ffmpeg) will do that .......K3b needs certen things to have all the encoding functions ......transcode and sox are the ones your looking for I think.

open k3b and go to settings>configure k3b>programs and look for and install the ones it cant find.

as for soundconverter ......I dont know mabey try purging and reinstalling it would work it out.

VINNY

[rfakhrai]

Re: trying to install soundkonverter: timidity-daemon issue

Thanks. sox and transcode did the trick. I still don't know why soundkonverter is having issues. I've seen some bug reports regarding the timidity-daemon issue.

Now, quick question: What command do I issue to find all .flac files within a folder?

[rfakhrai]

Re: trying to install soundkonverter: timidity-daemon issue

Nevermind I figured it out by myself. just some syntax things with the find command. Woohoo!

[vinnywright]

Re: trying to install soundkonverter: timidity-daemon issue



you should check out winff as well you can do some cool things with ffmpeg .....witch is one of the recommends for soundkonverter anyway

I do have soundkonverter installed as well :P

☯VINNY☯

[rfakhrai]

Re: trying to install soundkonverter: timidity-daemon issue

winff is pretty nifty. I just installed it and it did what I want. But for the sake of avoiding unnecessary clutter, I'll stick with K3b now that it does the trick. Sometime later I'll figure out why timidity-daemon was being so fussy.

Thanks.

[vinnywright]

Re: trying to install soundkonverter: timidity-daemon issue

your welcome...........I suppose I have what most people would say was a VARY cluttered system

2,514 packages installed ..............that results in a 8.6Gig / :P

vinny@desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3 20G 8.6G 9.9G 47% /
none 987M 340K 986M 1% /dev
none 991M 0 991M 0% /dev/shm
none 991M 244K 991M 1% /var/run
none 991M 0 991M 0% /var/lock
none 991M 0 991M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sdb5 130G 81G 43G 66% /home

but every thing is snappy and happy hear so.......

☯VINNY☯