Convert MP3 to AAC [ solved ]

[8andsand]

Hello I recently broke free from windows. Im loving Linux Mint. The only thing I cant figure out how to do is convert MP3 files to AAC. I need to convert them so my phone will recognize them properly. Im using Linux Mint 8 Helena. I have tried searching google and keep coming up empty.....Thanks

[mick55]

Run this command in terminal [Menu-->Terminal]

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sudo apt-get install soundconverter

This will install soundconverter which will allow you to convert between many formats.

[8andsand]

Run this command in terminal [Menu-->Terminal]

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sudo apt-get install soundconverter

This will install soundconverter which will allow you to convert between many formats.

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried putting that in the terminal and this is what I got.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gettext cvs
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs soundconverter
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 98 not upgraded.
Need to get 176kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,077kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs soundconverter
Authentication warning overridden.
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.25-2ubuntu1.1
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe soundconverter 1.4.4-0ubuntu1 [110kB]
Fetched 110kB in 1s (63.8kB/s)
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u ... 1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

[8andsand]

Hey I got soundconverter to work. After some sleep I got some of my google-fu back and found and downloaded the deb file. Thanks again for the suggestion it works great and does exactly what I want. Now I just wonder why it wouldn't load from the terminal?

[mick55]

Hi

Your source list may be outdated.Run the commands suggested
and your lists should be updated.

Run these commands in terminal

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sudo apt-get update

and then

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sudo apt-get update --fix-missing

If you still have a problem after running the commands let me know.

mick

[8andsand]

Hi

Your source list may be outdated.Run the commands suggested
and your lists should be updated.

Run these commands in terminal

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sudo apt-get update

and then

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sudo apt-get update --fix-missing

If you still have a problem after running the commands let me know.

mick

I ran the code and everything worked great. I ran the original code again and it told me I already had the newest version of soundconverter installed. Thanks again for all the help soundconverter does exactly what I needed.