Comment 18 for bug 62528

Thanks.
I couldn't find a .deb, so compiled it.
Great! It seems not to get upset at unicode characters anymore, unless the following error output is related:
(There do seem to be various other troubles so that I wouldn't list this as a releasable app. I might play with it more and make another bug report(s).)

SoundConverter 0.9.2
  using Gstreamer version: 0.10.6, Python binding version: 0.10.4
  using gnomevfssrc
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error:Could not determine type of stream. (balagane/thumbs.db)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: text/plain (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: text/plain (mail us if this is an error)
error:Could not determine type of stream. (dumas/le cours des jours/thumbs.db)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: text/plain (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
error:Could not determine type of stream. (daniel lavoie/live au divan vert/thumbs.db)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: text/plain (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: text/plain (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: text/plain (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: text/plain (mail us if this is an error)
error:Could not determine type of stream. (carla bruni/quelqu'un m'a dit/thumbs.db)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: text/plain (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: image/jpeg (mail us if this is an error)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/soundconverter", line 1241, in append_file_tags
    self.model.set(sound_file.model, 0, self.format_cell(sound_file))
  File "/usr/local/bin/soundconverter", line 1203, in format_cell
    params[item] = markup_escape(sound_file.get_tag(item))
  File "/usr/local/bin/soundconverter", line 223, in markup_escape
    str = "&".join(str.split("&"))
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split'
error:Could not determine type of stream. (bnabar/couche-tard et lve tt/desktop.ini)
error:Could not determine type of stream. (bnabar/desktop.ini)
Mime type skipped: text/plain (mail us if this is an error)
Mime type skipped: text/plain (mail us if this is an error)
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