HOW TO INSTALL SOUNDCONVERTER AUDIO CONVERTER APP IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A AUDIO FILE CONVERTER FOR LINUX

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Soundconverter Audio Converter app in Ubuntu 16.04. Soundconverter is a open source audio file converter GNOME application used to convert source audio format in to a different audio format. for example let’s say you have a audio file in .wav format and want to convert in to .mp3 format then you can use soundconverter audio covnverter application for that. It’s an nice light weight, fast and simple application supports almost all kind of audio & video format’s as a source file i.e. WAV, AVI, MP3, MOV, MPEG…etc…, Reads the sound from the source file and converts in to audio formats like WAV, MP3, OPUS and many more. The main developer and author of Soundconverter audio converter are Gautier Portet & Lars Wirzenius and released under GNU GPLv3 license. Here we are going to install latest version of Soundconverter Version 3.0.0 audio file converter in Ubuntu.

Follow the below steps to install Soundconverter Audio Converter in Ubuntu 16.04 – A Audio file converter for Linux

Before start the installation let’s update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/smplayer/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                             
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                                               
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Now let’s go ahead and install Soundconverter Audio converter package using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install soundconverter   # Install Soundconverter Audio file converter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-gconf-2.0 gstreamer1.0-libav libavfilter-ffmpeg5 libavresample-ffmpeg2 libflite1 libopencv-core2.4v5 libopencv-imgproc2.4v5 libsodium18 libtbb2 libzmq5
Suggested packages:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-gconf-2.0 gstreamer1.0-libav libavfilter-ffmpeg5 libavresample-ffmpeg2 libflite1 libopencv-core2.4v5 libopencv-imgproc2.4v5 libsodium18 libtbb2 libzmq5
  soundconverter
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 389 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 37.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y  ---> Enter "y" to continue the installation

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We have successfully installed the Soundconverter audio converter package. To confirm the same you can refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l soundconverter   # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  soundconverter                       3.0.0~alpha1+git2015120 all                     GNOME application to convert audio files into other formats

Now to open the Audio file converter application just type the command soundconverter on the shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ soundconverter   # Open the Soundconverter Audio file converter Package

You can change settings by going to Preferences like output file path, output file format..etc..Refer the snapshot below.

Soundconverter application package version :

You can also open the Soundconverter application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the Soundconverter audio converter application you can use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r soundconverter   # Uninstall the Application
(Reading database ... 200967 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing soundconverter (3.0.0~alpha1+git20151209-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...

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