Read AIFF metadata

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:56:57 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

> What I meant to say was soundconverter wouldn't
> even load the AIFFs.  That is, I could see the files if I changed the
> filter to "ALL" when looking for files to open,

The various filter settings in the file selector are just because the
developer offers filters for a couple of well-known (and tested) audio
file formats. Those formats are explicitly supported, in some cases even
with special things happening internally. There are more formats than
those, GStreamer supports more than those, and eventually there may be
additional filters. Using "All files *.*" is okay and the default.

> but after selecting the file, I couldn't see it in the soundconverter
> main window.  I had nothing to convert! 

That's odd, but I cannot comment on it without a look at the output of
"soundconverter -d" for the attempt at loading the file.

> This works for me, too.  Since I want to convert to flac, I used this:
> 
> gst-launch-0.10 giosrc location="file:///home/derp/user/Downloads/deniz_koyu-bong_original_remix.aiff" name=src ! decodebin name=decoder ! audiorate ! audioconvert ! flacenc mid-side-stereo=true quality=5 ! giosink location="file:///home/derp/user/Downloads/deniz_koyu-bong_original_remix.flac"
> 
> The metadata made it over to the flac: audacious played the converted
> file and displayed the metadata without issue.
> 
> Soooo, is this a bug in soundconverter, or am I using soundconverter
> incorrectly?

The following build manages to convert .aiff files (IFF data, AIFF audio) here:

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/soundconverter/2.0.4/12.fc17/noarch/soundconverter-2.0.4-12.fc17.noarch.rpm

If it still fails for you, I would need to see the terminal debug output.

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