Perl Audio Converter 4.0.0

[Philip Lyons]

Name: Perl Audio Converter
Version: 4.0.0
Type: KDE Sound Application
Depend: 
License: GPL
Homepage: http://viiron.googlepages.com
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=25766

Description:
 Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting
multiple audio types from one format to another.
It supports AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, AU, AVR, BONK,
CAF, CDR, FAP, FLA, FLAC, IRCAM, LA, LPAC, MAT,
MAT4, MAT5, M4A, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST,
OFR, OFS, OGG, PAC, PAF, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, SD2,
SF, SHN, SMP, SND, SPX, TTA, VOC, W64, WAV, WMA,
and WV. It can also convert audio from the
following video extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX,
MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V,
NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, and WMV. A CD
ripping function with CDDB support, batch
conversion, tag preservation for most supported
formats, independent tag reading/writing, and
extensions for Amarok, Dolphin, and Konqueror are
also provided.



Changelog:
 ----[TRANSLATORS NEEDED]----

language files can be downloaded from: 
http://viiron.googlepages.com/downloads

It should be noted that the language files are not
actual .po files.  They are simply named as such,
and should be opened/edited with a normal text
editor when translating.

v4.0.0:

+ added Chinese Simplified translation thanks to
Ni Hui
+ added Spanish translation thanks to Antonio 
+ added --keep option.  this option prevents
re-encoding files matching the destination format.
+ added the following formats from sndfile-convert
(part of the libsndfile package): caf, fap, ircam,
mat, mat4, mat5, nist, paf, pvf, sd2, sf, w64

* updated en.po (renamed to en_US.po)

% fixed typo in extra/README.module
% fixed a few typos in the man page
% fixed lang sub to handle .uft8/UTF-8 extensions
% fixed apostrophe in directory name bug. this
affected all GUI service menus and plugins with
kdialog using the --getexistingdirectory option.


v4.0.0-beta3:

+ added Polish translation thanks to Michal
Smoczyk
+ added Dolphin PACPL-Convert service menu
+ added --enable-all option to configure script. 
this should aid package maintainers who install in
a chroot.

* updated configure script to not exit when plugin
apps are not found
* updated extra directory contents are now
installed along with docs
* updated service menus to use audio/* and video/*
 Suggested by William Pfeffer

% fixed duplication bug when modifying ogg tags
% fixed various directory creations in the
Makefile
% fixed owner and group on all po files
% fixed copying of WMA artist tag to use AUTHOR
instead of ALBUMARTIST. thanks to Matthias Meyer
for reporting this issue.

- removed LANG variable from pacpl.conf.  The
locale is now set according to the environment
variable $LANG.


v4.0.0-beta2:

+ added ability to rip audio CD tracks in amarok
via the right-click menu.
+ added mod-install in extra/ directory for
Kubuntu users.
+ added German translation thanks to Andreas Lang.

* updated kdialog bitrate prompt to include
320kbps
* updated user modules to use .m extension rather
than .mod
* updated mods/ directory in /etc/pacpl (renamed
to modules/)

% fixed Amarok plugin to close pacpl after adding
the supported out formats
% fixed bug in taginfo to make it case-insensitive
% fixed sub write_user_tags() to print error when
tags could not be wrote
% fixed bug in write_user_tags() to make it
case-insensitive
% fixed configure script to check for CDDB_get
% fixed bug when converting to .fla.  Thanks to
Steven Woskow for the report and beta-testing.

v4.0.0-beta1:

major update.  the entire application has been
re-written from scratch.
the new layout allows languages and codecs to be
added much easier than
prior releases.

- removed all --formattoformat options (eg:
--mp3toflac)
- removed pacpl-install
- removed daemon mode (this may be re-implemented
in a future release)
- removed --playlist option
- removed --play function
- removed support for kexis (kxs).  if anyone was
actually using this format I apologize, but the
programs inability to specify an output file just
wouldn't work with the new system.

+ added support for speex
+ added support for user modules.  see
extra/sample.mod
+ added ability to alter/add meta-data during
conversion via tagging opts
+ added configure and makefile for installation
(replaces pacpl-install)
+ added --to option. this replaced --ct and the
--formattoformat options
+ added --only option. with this option, only
files matching .ext will get converted. (eg: pacpl
--to wav --only flac /home/directory/) only
converts files ending in .flac to wav
+ added --dryrun option.  this was
inspired/suggested by Stefano Sabatini
+ added --verbose option. useful in conjunction
with --dryrun
+ added language po-like files. translators (as
always) are welcome.
+ added the following video types to the
video->audio conversions: svcd, m4v, nsv, nuv,
psp, and smk.

* update all files are now converted to wav first,
then to the desired output format.  in the future
this will allow normalization, gain, etc.
* update slackware package now uses the new kde
installation directory /usr
* update a large portion of the amarok script has
been re-written.

% fixed bug with handling dollar signs ($) in file
names being treated as regular expressions. 
thanks to Donald Byrd for the report.

% fixed bug when copying ogg tags.  only copy tags
starting with the tag string (artist, title,
etc)...as opposed to any tag containing the
string.  thanks to Edward Kear for reporting this
issue.