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1. About soundKonverter
2. Backends
3. Compile soundKonverter
4. Known bugs


1. About soundKonverter 0.3.1
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 - Released by Daniel Faust (hessijames@gmail.com) under the terms of the GPL v2 -

soundKonverter is frontend to various audio converters.

It is extendable by plugins and supports many backends:
 En-/decoding: oggenc/oggdec, lame, gogo, faac/faad, mppenc/mppdec, flac, mac, mplayer, ffmpeg, shorten, ofr, ofs, wavpack, lac, lpac, speexenc/speexdec
 Replay Gain: vorbisgain, mp3gain, aacgain, replaygain (MusePack), metaflac
 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, ofr, ofs, wv, la, pac, spx, wav
 Encoing: ogg, mp3, mp2, m4a, aac, mpc, flac, ape, ra, ac3, au, shn, ofr, ofs, wv, la, pac, spx, wav
soundKonverter supports reading and writing tags for many formats, so the tags are preserved when converting files.

The key features are:
- Audio conversion
- Replay Gain calculation
- CD ripping

soundKonverter comes with an Amarok script that allows you to easily transcode files when transfering to your media device.


2. Backends
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110.oggvorbis.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.vorbis.com

120.lame.soundkonverter.xml
    http://lame.sf.net

125.gogo.soundkonverter.xml
    http://homepage2.nifty.com/kei-i/

127.faac.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.audiocoding.com

130.musepack.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.musepack.net

135.flac.soundkonverter.xml
    http://flac.sourceforge.net

137.mac.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.monkeysaudio.com

140.mplayer.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.mplayerhq.hu

145.ffmpeg.soundkonverter.xml
    http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu

146.ffmpeg-lossless.soundkonverter.xml
    Same as above, splitted just for internal use!

150.shorten.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.hornig.net/shorten.html

155.optimfrog.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.losslessaudio.org

156.optimfrog-dualstream.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.losslessaudio.org

158.wavpack.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.wavpack.com

160.lac.soundkonverter.xml
    Important: Rename the encoder "la" to "lac" because "la" is already used on linux!
    http://www.lossless-audio.com

165.lpac.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.html

170.speex.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.speex.org

210.vorbisgain.soundkonverter.xml
    http://sjeng.org/vorbisgain.html

220.mp3gain.soundkonverter.xml
    http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net

225.aacgain.soundkonverter.xml
    http://altosdesign.com/aacgain/

230.replaygain.soundkonverter.xml
    This is the Replay Gain tool for musepack files!
    http://www.musepack.net

240.metaflac.soundkonverter.xml
    http://flac.sourceforge.net

310.cdda2wav.soundkonverter.xml
    http://www.cdda2wav.de

320.cdparanoia.soundkonverter.xml
    http://xiph.org/paranoia/


3. Compile soundKonverter
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In order to compile soundKonverter, you need:
- taglib-devel 1.4.0
- cdparanoia

On some operating systems, the cdda check (cdparanoia) in ./configure may fail.
This is because sometimes the header files are at another location (eg. /usr/include/cdda instead of /usr/include on ark linux).
In this case remove the cdparanoia check from the configure.in.in file.


4. Known bugs
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- The options tabs get out of sync in some very rare cases
- taglib check in ./configure may fail

Backends that's output cant't be read:
- ofs (no output)
- cdparanoia (progress bar)

A big change is that soundKonverter now uses mime types.
If you find problems, please tell me about it.


Thanks to all Open Source programmers for their apps that I used to get some code.
Especially Kaffeine and Amarok.

Have a lot of fun.

Please send bug reports directly to daniel@kaligames.de or hessijames@gmail.com

