No cdrom drives detected

the proposed patch uses /de/srX directly which I can confirm to be working on two of my systems (both with Ubuntu 12.04, AMD64). However further investigations might be neccesary to make external drives visible, too.

This looks very sane.
Maybe I should also remove the line:

if( deviceList.at(i).contains("sr") || deviceList.at(i).contains("hd") )

I don't know why I wrote it this way anymore but it seems more complicated than it should be.

Fix Released? The version in Precise is still broken. I guess I'll have to make a symlink in /dev, because /dev/scd0 seems to be hardcoded into sK. If only I could configure it to just use /dev/cdrom...

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Which version are you speaking of?
I applied the patch in version 1.4.90 (1.5.0 rc1).
You can get the latest version here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/HessiJames/
And this might also be interesting: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/soundkonverter/+bug/954776

As I said, the version in Precise needs to be fixed:

soundkonverter:
  Installed: 0.9.94-2
  Candidate: 0.9.94-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.94-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Right, so this is a job for the ubuntu packagers. As I wrote here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/soundkonverter/+bug/954776/comments/3 version 0.9.94 is just hopelessly outdated.

For everybody who is searching for instructions to install the latest version of soundKonverter, please have a look at the new wiki: https://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonverter/wiki/Installing%20soundKonverter#wiki-precompiled_packages