Encoding error on Ubuntu 14.04

[veltman]

I'm trying to get the waveform of a file as JSON using the following options:

var options = { scan: false,
  waveformjs: '-',
  'wjs-width': 34112,
  'wjs-precision': 2,
  'wjs-plain': true
};

waveform(myFilePath,options,function(err,buf){
  var parsed = JSON.parse(buf);
  // do stuff with parsed
});

This works fine on OS X, but running the same thing on Ubuntu 14.04 I get the following error:

string_decoder.js:24
    throw new Error('Unknown encoding: ' + encoding);
          ^
Error: Unknown encoding: buffer
    at assertEncoding (string_decoder.js:24:11)
    at new exports.StringDecoder (string_decoder.js:30:3)
    at Socket.Readable.setEncoding (_stream_readable.js:196:33)
    at exports.execFile (child_process.js:672:16)
    at module.exports (/home/ubuntu/animator/node_modules/waveform/index.js:22:3)

This is after installing libgroove-dev.

If i run the command directly:

./waveform --wjs-width 34112 --wjs-precision 4 --wjs-plain myFilePath --waveformjs -

it works fine. Somehow it seems like the node wrapper isn't able to correctly encode/decode the stdout buffer on Ubuntu even though it's OK on Mac. Any idea why this would be?