Description:
About
soundKonverter is a frontend to various audio converters.
The key features are:
- Audio conversion
- Replay Gain calculation
- CD ripping
It is extendable by plugins and supports many backends:
En-/decoding: oggenc/oggdec, lame, gogo, faac/faad, mppenc/mppdec, flac, mac, mplayer, ffmpeg, shorten, ttaenc, bonk, ofr, ofs, wavpack, lac, lpac, speexenc/speexdec, timidity
Replay Gain: vorbisgain, mp3gain, aacgain, replaygain (MusePack), metaflac, wvgain
CD ripping: kio_audiocd, cdda2wav, cdparanoia
This way you can convert between various audio formats:
Decoding: ogg, mp3, mp2, m4a/mp4, aac, 3gp, mpc/mp+, flac, ape, wma, asf/asx, ra, rv, rm, avi, mpeg, wmv, qt/mov, flv, ac3, au/snd, shn, tta, bonk, ofr, ofs, wv, la, pac, spx, mid, mod/s3m/stm/ult/uni/xm/m15/mtm/669/it, voc, wav
Encoding: ogg, mp3, mp2, m4a, aac, mpc, flac, ape, ra, ac3, au, shn, tta, bonk, ofr, ofs, wv, la, pac, spx, wav
soundKonverter supports reading and writing tags for many formats, so the tags are preserved when converting files.
It comes with an Amarok script that allows you to easily transcode files when transfering to your media device.
And it is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese.
Installation (v. 0.3.x)
WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" gmake -f Makefile.cvs
./configure
make
make install
In order to compile soundKonverter, you need:
- taglib-devel 1.4.0 (libtaglib-devel on mandriva)
- cdparanoia (libcdda-devel on mandriva, cdparanoia-devel on fedora)
On some operating systems (eg. ark linux) you may need to remove the cdparanoia check from the configure.in.in file!
Note: If you compile soundKonverter and have the libmp4v2-devel package installed, run ./configure with the '--with-mp4v2' switch for better results.
The packages from the OpenSuse Build Service are not libmp4v2 enabled!
OpenSuse users should add the following installation source to yast: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/HessiJames/suse version
eg.: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/HessiJames/openSUSE_10.2 for suse 10.2.
Non suse distributions are not tested, so please tell me if something is wrong with the packages.
beta version
The beta version is supposed to be for testing only. It should be functional but there are still some features not completed and it may include bugs.
Feedback on the new design (both technical and ui) and the installation (which i didn't quite figured out) are welcome.
v. 1.0.0 beta2: I currently haven't got much time so here is my current version.
git repository
for everybody who is interested, there is a new git repository at http://gitorious.org/soundkonverter/soundkonverter
Changelog:
new in 0.9.91 (1.0.0 beta2):
-Add: flac and metaflac plugins
-Add: faac, neroaac and aacgain plugins
-Add: timidity plugin
-Add: Enclosing %x space holders in the output directory with "[]" will only activate the space holder if the tag is not empty
-Add: Czech translation (by Pavel Fric)
-Change: use input file name as output file name if output mode is set to "metadata" and the file name can't be filled with either the track number or title
-Change: added message box to warn the user when trying to rip audio cds with kde < 4.4.0
-Change: don't close soundkonverter when started invisible but the conversion was aborted by the user
-Change: don't save file list after each succeeded conversion because it was slowing down the conversion when converting a lot of files
-Fix: File conflict handling
-Fix: Update file list if configuration changed
-Fix: Rip CDs by passing parameters to soundkonverter
-Fix: Replay Gain tool would only process one file/album
-Fix: Downloading files from remote locations
-Fix: Options editor wouldn't save modified tags
-Fix: Hitting the button "edit tags" in the options editor wouldn't work
-Fix: The options editor would cause a crash when files where removed from the file list
-Fix: Race condition when trying to convert multiple files having the same output file name simultaneously
new in 0.3.11:
-Fix: ffmpeg parameters for metadata removed
new in 0.3.10:
-Add: voc file format decoding for ffmpeg and mplayer
-Add: Ripping audio cds and service menus for kde4
-Add: Menu entry for ejecting audio cds (patch by Dominik Stadler)
-Add: Estonian and Simplified Chinese translations (both incomplete)
-Fix: ffmpeg was called with wrong bitrate parameter
-Fix: soundKonverter would leak file handles (patch by Dominik Stadler)
-Change: If the output file size is less than 1 percent of the input file size soundkonverter interprets that as an error
License: GPL
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