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.

News

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 :)

Version 1.3.2

• Add AAC encoding support.
(thanks Ian) (fix #001653)
• Use gstreamer gio source when available
(fix #14184)
• Create-folders is also actived when using same-as-input-folder.
(thanks Jason) (fix #13915)
• Fix problem with slashes in tags. No more creating unwanted folders. This is just a fast hack, slash is just replaced by dash.
(thanks Fred) (fix #14286)
• Fix crash when gnomevfssink not present.
• Fix small crasher in batch mode.
(fix LP: #243831)
• Updated Polish tranlation.
(thanks Piotr)

Version 1.3.1

• SoundConverter is now able to run multiple conversions at the same time.
Default is one per core, you can adjust with --jobs.
Note that SoundConverter is now 4 times faster*.
• Fixes various crashers reported by ubunteros.
(thanks Michael, Øyvind Stegard, Matthieu, ...and apport !)
• Updated Polish, Serbian and German translations.

Version 1.3.0 was broken, sorry.
* on quad core processors.

Version 1.2.0

• TagReader perform *much* faster (500s -> 20s on 260 files)
(thanks thaytan on #gstreamer)
• Progress indicator reset after a conversion.
• Updated Arabic Catalan Czech Spanish French Slovak translations.
• Added Esperanto & Persian translations.

Version 1.1.0

• Support for Codec Buddy. So missing plugins for reading files will be installed automatically (where supported).
• Display an message when trying to read Audio CD. (Audio CD are complicated to work with, use Soundjuicer instead...)
• Little faster starting time.

Version 1.0.2

• Fix crasher when using cdda:// uris.

Version 1.0.1

• Fix crashes when using filenames with unicode.

Version 1.0.0

• Fix crash in format_tag() when loading file with binary tags.
• Fix annoying gvfs error message at startup when output folder is not set.
• CustomFileChooser now have case-insensitive filters.
• Add 3gp to the mime whitelist.
• Add a clear list button on toolbar.

Download

Download page
report any problem/suggestion on the project page

Screenshots

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!