soundKonverter

About
soundKonverter is a frontend to various audio converters.

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

It is extendable by plugins and supports many backends:
En-/decoding: oggenc/oggdec, lame, gogo, faac/faad, mppenc/mppdec, flac, mac, mplayer, ffmpeg, shorten, ttaenc, bonk, ofr, ofs, wavpack, lac, lpac, speexenc/speexdec, timidity
Replay Gain: vorbisgain, mp3gain, aacgain, replaygain (MusePack), metaflac, wvgain
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, tta, bonk, ofr, ofs, wv, la, pac, spx, mid, mod/s3m/stm/ult/uni/xm/m15/mtm/669/it, voc, wav
Encoding: ogg, mp3, mp2, m4a, aac, mpc, flac, ape, ra, ac3, au, shn, tta, bonk, ofr, ofs, wv, la, pac, spx, wav

soundKonverter supports reading and writing tags for many formats, so the tags are preserved when converting files.
It comes with an Amarok script that allows you to easily transcode files when transfering to your media device.
And it is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese.

Installation
WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" gmake -f Makefile.cvs
./configure
make
make install

In order to compile soundKonverter, you need:
- taglib-devel 1.4.0 (libtaglib-devel on mandriva)
- cdparanoia (libcdda-devel on mandriva, cdparanoia-devel on fedora)
On some operating systems (eg. ark linux) you may need to remove the cdparanoia check from the configure.in.in file!

Note: If you compile soundKonverter and have the libmp4v2-devel package installed, run ./configure with the '--with-mp4v2' switch for better results.
The packages from the OpenSuse Build Service are not libmp4v2 enabled!

OpenSuse users should add the following installation source to yast: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/HessiJames/suse version
eg.: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/HessiJames/openSUSE_10.2 for suse 10.2.

Non suse distributions are not tested, so please tell me if something is wrong with the packages.

alpha version
The alpha version is supposed to be for testing only. It should be functional but there are still some features not completed and it may include bugs.
Feedback on the new design (both technical and ui) and the installation (which i didn't quite figured out) are welcome.

new in 0.3.11:
-Fix: ffmpeg parameters for metadata removed

new in 0.3.10:
-Add: voc file format decoding for ffmpeg and mplayer
-Add: Ripping audio cds and service menus for kde4
-Add: Menu entry for ejecting audio cds (patch by Dominik Stadler)
-Add: Estonian and Simplified Chinese translations (both incomplete)
-Fix: ffmpeg was called with wrong bitrate parameter
-Fix: soundKonverter would leak file handles (patch by Dominik Stadler)
-Change: If the output file size is less than 1 percent of the input file size soundkonverter interprets that as an error