Conversion of SACD
Hi - trying to convert FLAC sourced from an SACD to mp3. Details of the media: Sample rate: 88200 Hz. Bits per sample: 24. Stereo.
Doesn't seem to work. I get the error "GStreamer encountered a general stream error." Other conversions from cd-sourced FLACs to mp3s work flawlessly for me. Is it not possible to convert this type of file to mp3 with SoundConverter?
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- Solved by:
- Tim Arnold
- Solved:
- 2011-10-20
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- 2011-10-20
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- 2011-10-20
| GautierPortet (kassoulet) said : | #1 |
Do you know where I can find an example SACD file?
| GautierPortet (kassoulet) said : | #2 |
Well, it works here. What version of SoundConverter are you using?
| Tim Arnold (ww3ib-tim) said : | #3 |
Version 1.4.4.
| GautierPortet (kassoulet) said : | #4 |
Tested with ubuntu 11.10 and soundconverter 1.4.4, and converting was OK.
This propably related to an older version of GStreamer.
I don't think I can do anything more for your problem.
| Tim Arnold (ww3ib-tim) said : | #5 |
This is a new 10.04 LTS install with newest gstreamer. Don't think this is the problem. Are there other required software packages that you have that I may be lacking?
| GautierPortet (kassoulet) said : | #6 |
I've all the gstreamer plugins installed.
You can try to upgrade to a more recent soundconverter.
Also, version 1.4.4 doesn't like folders with spaces.
| Tim Arnold (ww3ib-tim) said : | #7 |
I installed ubuntu restricted extras, all of the gstreamer plugins I could find, compiled and installed SoundConverter 1.5.4 from source - I still cannot convert this type of SACD FLAC to mp3. Playback of this type of file and conversion of other types of FLACs still works fine.
| Tim Arnold (ww3ib-tim) said : | #8 |
Aha! A small breakthrough...
It helped to change the resample rate to 44 kHz in the preferences menu - this seemed to work fine.
I also tried 48 kHz and this worked fine one file at a time, but froze up my machine each time I opened an entire folder. I tried 72 kHz - this resulted in GStreamer error when creating pipeline could not link audioconvertX to lameX. At 96 kHz i got the same error with different values for X.
My conclusion is this: when converting this type of FLAC you must select resample, and then the resampling rate must be kept under 72 kHz.
I will set this question to solved, but I am a little disappointed that SoundConverter can't keep the native sampling rate for this type of file.
Thanks for your help.
| Kris (kristian-holsheimer) said : | #9 |
I know that this discussion has been closed for a while now, but I'm having the same problem (on ubuntu 13.04) trying to convert 24bit/96kHz flac files to mp3 (or any other format). The suggestion of resampling to a lower frequency doesn't solve it, though. In my case, soundconverter doesn't freeze up my system, but rather just spits out empty files and it displays the dialog saying "GStreamer encountered a general stream error."
Any suggestions?
| GautierPortet (kassoulet) said : | #10 |
The maximum sampling rate for mp3 is 48KHz. You have to resample it.
Do you have a small sample file available ?
| mikecaines (mikecaines-gmail) said : | #11 |
This issues does still exist. I don't think the problem is on the output side, as I choose MP3 and resample to 44.1khz, but it still fails. The input file is 24bit and 96khz.
| Chris Hermansen (c-hermansen) said : | #12 |
Today I had similar problems in Ubuntu 13.10 - GStreamer general stream errors.
I was trying to convert FLAC files at various bit rates - some would convert, some would not.
Turns out pulling the latest source and compiling it fixed the problem.
I don't know if this will help with the SACD / DSD file, but it's worth a try.
| DooMMasteR (winrootkit) said : | #13 |
I encountered the problem on Ubuntu 14.04.
Sampling rate does not matter, but gsteamer fails decoding the 24bit FLAC files regardless of the sampling rate.
