soundKonverter

Audio Extractors/Converters music transcode

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/dfaust/soundkonverter

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Description:

soundKonverter is a front-end to various audio converters.

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

See the wiki (https://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonverter/wiki) for more information.

Last changelog:

3.0.1 1 year ago

-Fix: Destination mode "Source directory" creates filenames consisting only of the file extension
-Fix: All files "Failed" to convert when dragging a folder (Invalid URL)

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pebege
1 month ago

I like this application and the ergonomy. The application does the job, but the file picker does NOT work well. I don’t know if is a Plasma bug.

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verdia13
4 months ago

9 +

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symbianflo
3 years ago

kde 4.14.13
qt4 4.8.7
works perfect
Updated in RosaLinux
Thanks

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Groni1
3 years ago

Did you build the soundKonverter in QT 5 for KDE5 ?
I work for Pisi Linux and we have not porting the kde4libs to the new Pisi Linux 2.0.

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HessiJames
3 years ago

No, sorry, I don't have time for that.

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chetwisniewski
3 years ago

I have a song with a ? in the title and it appears to not be escaped when passed to ffmpeg?

/mnt/Shared/MEDIA/Music (Lossless)/FLAC/10,000 Maniacs/Campfire Songs/Disc 1 - 7 - What's the Matter Here?.flac: No such file or directory
Conversion failed. Exit code: 1

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asdevian
3 years ago

I cant install it on Kubuntu 15.10, I try to compile the QT5 branch and get this error "Tell CMake where to find the compiler by setting either the environment variable "CXX" or the CMake cache entry CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to the full path to the compiler, or to the compiler name if it is in the PATH.", I install all dependences, but the "taglib" is called libtag in the Kubuntu's repos and cant install the .deb package

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HessiJames
3 years ago

Sorry, but the qt5 branch is not ready to be used. And by the looks of the error message you don't have gcc/g++ installed.

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asdevian
3 years ago

Now I really resolve this: first, execute in konsole " sudo apt-get install kdemultimedia-dev libkcddb4 libkcddb-dev cdparanoia libcdparanoia-dev libtag1-dev lame twolame opus-tools gettext " ; Next install this .deb: " https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz6g-hlhahaURGd3dXRTVDJVQm8/view?usp=sharing " ; I fixed the dependences

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asdevian
3 years ago

I resolve it; first, execute in konsole "sudo apt-get install kdemultimedia-dev libkcddb4 libkcddb-dev cdparanoia libcdparanoia-dev libtag1-dev lame twolame opus-tools gettext"
then, download a x64 package from http://is.gd/Ru4guk , then force install with
sudo dpkg -i --force-all soundkonverter_2.1.90-1_amd64.deb

I execute it with soundkonverter or in app launcher

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TheBlueGhost
4 years ago

Out of interest, do you plan on porting SoundKonverter to Qt and Frameworks 5?

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HessiJames
4 years ago

There is a qt5 branch on github (depends on frameworks 5, too). Though I don't have the time to work on it at the moment. Also this branch is more than just a port, it's a partial re-write.

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shmerl
4 years ago

Hi!

I see that installing soundkonverter in Debian testing pulls in mplayer2. Do you plan to switch soundkonverter to mpv which is the active project unlike mplayer2 these days?

Thanks.

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HessiJames
4 years ago

Thanks for the hint, I'll put mpv compatibility on my todo list.
Where did you install the .deb from? I never tested soundkonverter with mplayer2 but since it can be used as drop-in replacement for mplayer (as far as I know) it seems the packager just pulled mplayer2 in.

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shmerl
4 years ago

I installed it from the Debian testing repo directly. Debian doesn't package mplayer at all and packages mplayer2 instead. mplayer2 however is now a dead project and actually mpv is more advanced and actively developed than either of mplayers.

You can see more about it here:

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/changes.rst

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rmlrml
5 years ago

possible to get a version without all the kde dependencies? sort of like how kid3 offers kid3-qt, or some other way?

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HessiJames
5 years ago

I'm sorry but that's not possible, soundKonverter relies on some important features provided by KDE.

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debaba
5 years ago

Hi, nice stuff you developed, thanks.
I'm missing one thing: a possibility to evaluate metadata-fields and then insert according to this evaluation like:

[%z!=%a?%z - : ]

to insert '%z - ' only if %z differs from %a else insert ' '

Thanks for your precious time

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HessiJames
5 years ago

I'll keep it in mind but I don't have much time at the moment. If you want to make sure that I won't forget it, you should file a feature request at https://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonverter/issues

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google01103
5 years ago

could you add the Album Artist tag when ripping cds? The tag is important when using Amarok

Also, when fetching data it would be nice to fetch the cover

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HessiJames
5 years ago

Have a look at Version 2.0.91 for album artist support in the CD ripper.

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google01103
5 years ago

awesome - thank you

If I might make 1 more suggestion, with cd ripping the ability to deselect all tracks

regards,

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gzu
5 years ago

Looks like taglib 1.9.1 may be causing issues during compilation

[ 35%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/soundkonverter.dir/aboutplugins.o
Linking CXX executable soundkonverter
CMakeFiles/soundkonverter.dir/metadata/tagengine.o: In function `TagLib::RefCounterOld::deref()':
/usr/include/taglib/trefcounter.h:94: undefined reference to `__sync_sub_and_fetch_4'
/usr/include/taglib/trefcounter.h:94: undefined reference to `__sync_sub_and_fetch_4'
/usr/include/taglib/trefcounter.h:94: undefined reference to `__sync_sub_and_fetch_4'
/usr/include/taglib/trefcounter.h:94: undefined reference to `__sync_sub_and_fetch_4'
/usr/include/taglib/trefcounter.h:94: undefined reference to `__sync_sub_and_fetch_4'
CMakeFiles/soundkonverter.dir/metadata/tagengine.o:/usr/include/taglib/trefcounter.h:94: more undefined references to `__sync_sub_and_fetch_4' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [soundkonverter] Error 1

Thanks for a great app.

Regards,

gzu

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HessiJames
5 years ago

Works fine for me with taglib 1.9.1 on opensuse 12.3.
Have you tried removing the build directory and compiling again?

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gzu
5 years ago

Thanks for getting back to me.

version 2.0.4 compiles OK in Fedora 19 but not in RHEL6/CentOS6 with taglib 1.9.1.

Any chance this is due to an older gcc version?

gzu

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3.0.1 1 year ago

-Fix: Destination mode "Source directory" creates filenames consisting only of the file extension
-Fix: All files "Failed" to convert when dragging a folder (Invalid URL)

13 years ago

new in 2.2.2:
-Change: Move Polish (Poland) translation to Polish
-Change: Move Swedish (Sweden) translation back to Swedish
-Change: Remove so-version for libsoundkonvertercore to satisfy obs lint

new in 2.2.1:
-Add: Dutch, Spanish (Argentina) and Polish (Poland) translations
-Change: Swedish translation moved to Swedish (Sweden)
-Change: Update translations

new in 2.2.0:
-Add: Decode webm audio stream
-Add: --file-list argument
-Change: Remove both APE and ID3 Replay Gain tags with mp3gain and aacgain
-Change: Disable "modify audio stream" option by default in mp3gain and aacgain
-Change: Don't write icedax info file
-Change: Set so-version for libsoundkonvertercore
-Fix: Don't require an output path when using a user defined profile as command line argument
-Fix: Don't crash when tags can't be read
-Fix: Error message when trying to write to a directory without permissions
-Fix: Store album artist information to file list files
-Fix: Some crashes
-Fix: Handle newer ffmpeg versions
-Fix: Don't wait with Replay Gain calculation for items with same album name but no Replay Gain conversion option set
-Fix: Don't convert all files at once if the conversion starts with copying files with the same input an output codec
-Fix: Infinite loop when waiting for album gain for a failed item

new 2.1.90 (2.2.0 rc1):
-Add: Detect (DRM)-encrypted wma and m4a files
-Add: Adjust gain for mp3 files
-Add: Option to copy files instead of re-encoding them if input and output codec are the same
-Change: Fall-back from album artist to artist in "meta data" naming mode if album artist is empty

Full changelog: https://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonverter/blob/master/src/CHANGELOG