My only regret with avconv is you can't do some intresting graphical features
with audio files that FFmpeg allows and that can be very usful for cevral
purposes.
This video extract shows it all.
https://youtu.be/M58rc7cxl_s?t=9m15s
This is quite brillant !
The problem I had in switching from Apple to GNU/Linux was the "bunch" of
.M4A I have made in iTunes.
If the losless of the m4a format is ok and is playable in VLC, converting
them is another story, because it is not a free format and iTunes didn't
played Flac files (I don't know if it's
Do you have the package "gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly" installed?
Here, SoundConverter often outputs a "Gstreamer error" message that says
"Could not open resource for writing"... but it does the job anyway!