SoundConverter

Introduction

The sound conversion application for the GNOME environment. It reads anything the GStreamer library can read (Ogg Vorbis, AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, AVI, MPEG, MOV, M4A, AC3, DTS, ALAC, MPC, Shorten, APE, SID, etc...), and writes WAV, FLAC, MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis files.

SoundConverter aims to be simple to use, and very fast. Thanks to its multithreaded design, it will use as many cores as possible to speed up the conversion. It can also extract the audio from videos.

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News

Version 1.4.4

• Force vbr-max-bitrate to 320 when using mp3+vbr, since gstreamer now defaults to 160.
(thanks psychoman, fix #15950)
• Activate GVfs authentication so we can log to remote shares.
(thanks ikus060, fix lp:386849)
• Fix crash in query_duration.
(fix lp:333024)
• Change deprecated Tooltip code, SoundConverter now requires GTK 2.12+!
(thanks Matt)
• Reset status after clearing file list.
(Thanks Sean)
• Fix unhandled exception when removing original files went bad.
(thanks surreal, fix lp:278782)
• Allow loading glade file from source folder so you can run soundconverter without installing.
(Thanks Geoff)
• Rosetta sync, Update all translations.
  Add Bulgarian, Danish, English (Australia), Estonian, Japanese and Vietnamese translations.
• A some minor cosmetic changes.
(Thanks Uwe)

Version 1.4.3

• Fix freezing when adding encrypted mp4 files.
fix lp:263889
• Display notification at the end of conversion.
(thanks Royall)
• Display error dialog when something bad happened.
• And minor corrections, like Preference Dialog fixes, spellings fixes, a better URI handling and others minor glitches fixed.
(thanks Geoff, Hew)

Version 1.4.2

• Translations update.
(thanks Translation-love-team)
• Add a checkbox to optionally choose .oga extension for vorbis files.
(thanks Ben&Andy for lobbying)
• Minor bugfixes (python 2.5 problem, and some interface stalling fixes).
(thanks Dag)

Version 1.4.1

• Fix crash at startup when more than one encoding format is missing.
(thanks Denis)
• Stop trying to load all the whole disk at startup, due to broken option parser.

Version 1.4.0

• Add AAC quality setting.
• Added an higher quality level to Vorbis and MP3, now up to 320kbps*.
(thanks Juan Martin and Michael) (fix #3955)
• Fix an old problem with spaces in folder names.
• Flac files will be smaller (~20%), by forcing "join stereo" option.
(thanks Georges)
• Add optional resampling.
(thanks Francis)
• Add {Timestamp} custom filename template.
(thanks Mark)
• Updated Polish translation.
(thanks Tomasz)

* and it's just useless :)

Requirements

Linux, GNOME 2.x, Python, PyGTK, GStreamer, GStreamer-python, Gnome-python, GStreamer-lame for MP3 output.

See this howto to enable mp3 encoding.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Authors

Maintainer: Gautier Portet <kassoulet gmail com>
Previous maintainer: Lars Wirzenius <liw iki fi>

Translators: Guillaume Bedot, Dominik Zabłotny, Jonh Wendell, Marc E., Daniel Nylander, Alexandre Prokoudine, Kamil Páral, Stefano Luciani, Martin Seifert, Miloš Popović.

Thanks to: Hanno Böck, Regis Floret, Adolfo González Blázquez, Julien Gascard, Claudio Saavedra, Ken Harris, Jon Arnold, Major Kong, Tango Project.

And big thanks to you all; users, fans, bug reporters, translators... YOU make this possible!