[Kde-announce-apps] soundKonverter 0.3

[Daniel Faust]

Name: soundKonverter
Version: 0.3
Type: Sound Application
Depend: KDE 3.5.x
License: GPL
Homepage:
http://kaligames.de/?pid=downloads/soundkonverter/index.php&ref=http://www.kde-apps.org
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29024

Description:
 soundKonverter is a 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, 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.

In order to compile soundKonverter, you need:
- taglib-devel
- cdparanoia

If you build packages of soundKonverter, please
send them to me. Thx.

Changelog:
 fixes since rc1:
-Fix: Log viewer now gets updated correctly
-Fix: Replay Gain plugins in single file mode read
output correctly
-Fix: File length is guessed, when tags can't be
read (except remote files)
-Fix: Some special characters in file names were
not supported: "?", "#", "/"
-Fix: Made english command line arguments work
independent of the current language
-Fix: Made notification for new backends and
plugin updates work
-Fix: Changing the output directory in simple mode
would not be respected
-Fix: Some minor fixes

new in 0.3:
Changed almost everything. The most important
changes are:
-Add: CD ripping (including cddb and support for
multiple devices and simultaneous ripping)
-Add: Converting multiple files at once
-Add: Editing of output options and tags
-Add: Support for discnumber and composer tags for
ogg, mp3 and flac files
-Add: Tagging support for wma, ape, mp4, aac, aa
and rm files
-Add: Support for Replay Gain in album mode
including extended Replay Gain Tool
-Add: Custom profiles (including user defined
commands)
-Add: Basic support for hybrid compression
-Add: KIO support (partly)
-Change: GUI cleanups

A big change is that soundKonverter now uses mime
types. Unfortunately this causes a lot of
problems.
Please report missing/wrong mime types!