soundKonverter 1.6.4 & 2.0.0 beta1
(KDE Sound Application)
About
soundKonverter is a frontend to various audio converters.
The key features are:
– Audio conversion
– Replay Gain calculation
– CD ripping
Reading and writing tags and covers is supported for many formats, so they are preserved when converting files.
The following backends and formats are supported:
Backends: faac, faad, ffmpeg, flac, lame, mplayer, neroaac, timidity, fluidsynth, vorbistools, twolame, flake, mac, shorten, wavpack and speex
Formats: ogg vorbis, mp3, flac, wma, aac, ac3, alac, mp2, als, amr nb, amr wb, ape, speex, m4a, mp1, musepack shorten, tta, wavpack, ra, midi, mod, 3gp,
rm, avi, mkv, ogv, mpeg, mov, mp4, flv, wmv and rv
Backends: aacgain, metaflac, mp3gain, vorbisgain, wvgain, mpcgain
Formats: aac, mp3, flac, ogg vorbis, wavpack, musepack
Backends: cdparanoia
If you try to convert a file that is not supported, soundKonverter will tell you which backend you need to install.
Installation
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config –prefix` ..
make
sudo make install
For installing soundKonverter to your home directory see Building Amarok Locally at: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/2.0_Development_HowTo
Git repository
For everybody who is interested, there is a git repository at https://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonverter
In order to obtain the source code from the git repository you need to install ‘git’ and execute the following commands:
initialize local git repository
git clone git://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonverter.git
update repository
git pull
Precompiled packages
You can find soundKonverter packages for various distributions with a nice download interface and some instructions at:
http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:HessiJames&package=soundkonverter
More detailed information for openSUSE and Debian/Ubuntu can be found in the README file (linked below).
Translations
If you would like to translate soundKonverter to your native language, you can do this at https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/soundkonverter. You just have to create an account and request a new translation. Please keep an eye on the ‘Announcements’ in order to see when soundKonverter is in string-freeze.
If you want to have a look at the .pot file first, you can get it here: https://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonverter/raw/fixes-1.6/src/po/soundkonverter.pot
And if you have a question, just write me a mail.
Reporting bugs
You can either leave a comment here or write me a mail.
But the best way might be to create a bug report/ask a question at https://bugs.launchpad.net/soundkonverter
More
For more information please read the README file at https://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonverter/blob/fixes-1.6/src/README
changelog:
new in 1.9.80 (2.0.0 beta1):
-Add: Parallel Replay Gain calculation in the Replay Gain tool
-Add: Move tracks to new Album via context menu in the Replay Gain tool
-Add: sox plugin with support for some new file formats (8svx, aiff, amr wb)
-Add: Convert sample rate and sample size, downmix and apply effects (normalize, bass and treble) using sox
-Add: Copy embedded covers for ogg files using METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE
-Add: Option to switch between COMMENT and DESCRIPTION as preferred comment field for ogg vorbis and flac files
-Add: Option to select preferred total tracks/discs number fields for ogg vorbis and flac files
-Add: Copy the tags total tracks/discs number, MusicBrainz Track Id and MusicBrainz Release Id
-Add: Compression level option for the lame plugin
-Add: Opus support (via opus-tools)
-Change: Remember dimensions of the sub-windows and dialogs
-Change: Sampling rate and number of channels can as of now only be changed through a filter plugin (currently only sox)
-Change: Immediately start converting a file after adding it to the file list if the conversion is running in queue mode
-Change: Quit soundKonverter when canceling the CD ripper dialog if soundKonverter was started with the –rip option
-Change: Quit the Replay Gain tool when it gets closed
-Change: Rename the m4a format to m4a/aac and alac to m4a/alac
-Fix: Handle internal Replay Gain calculation properly
-Fix: Don’t accept dropping tracks onto albums with different codec or sampling rate in the Replay Gain tool
-Fix: Better file type recognition
-Fix: Output options control via command line parameters when ripping audio cds
-Fix: User defined parameters for mpcenc when using a preset
new in 1.6.4:
-Fix: Stall when Replay Gain plugin returns error code (e.g. when trying to remove musepack gain)
-Fix: Some memory leaks
-Fix: Performance improvements when adding large directories
-Fix: Recognize file type correctly if extension is upper case
-Fix: Dropping directories on the Replay Gain tool wouldn’t work
new in 1.6.3:
-Add: Brazilian Portuguese translation (by André Marcelo Alvarenga)
-Fix: Make sure the file chooser dialog won’t get overlayed by the options dialog in non-KDE environments
new in 1.6.2:
-Fix: Skip files that ought to be skipped instead of generating a new file name
-Fix: Make saving custom profiles work again
-Fix: Don’t mix up the output directory history for metadata and normal mode
-Fix: Show proper progress when applying album gain
new in 1.6.1:
-Fix: Don’t try to restore the file list when calling soundKonverter while it is running
new in 1.6.0:
-Add: Update translations
-Fix: When loading file lists some options were ignored
new in 1.5.90 (1.6.0 rc1):
-Add: Make the ‘Failed’ status click-able and open the log if clicked
-Add: Make the file name of covers written to the output directory configurable
-Change: Remove the info tab from the options editor
-Change: Discard changes in the options editor when selecting a different file in file list
-Fix: Problem dialog wasn’t shown when dropping unsupported files on the soundKonverter or ReplayGain tool window
-Fix: Show progress when decoding properly
-Fix: Crash when in options editor opened items finished
-Fix: Crash with ogg files containing covers but no mime type or description
Full changelog: https://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonverter/blob/fixes-1.6/src/CHANGELOG
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