SoundConverter

A simple sound converter application for the GNOME environment. It reads anything the GStreamer library can read, and writes Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Wave, MP3 and M4A files.

This application is somewhat less fast than various command line tools. Not a whole lot, however, and not enough to make me worry about performance for the foreseeable future. If you want ultimate performance, the command line tools are always going to be preferable.

Building and Installation

Ubuntu and Arch packages exist in the official repositories.

Installing from source requires distutils-extra

git clone https://github.com/kassoulet/soundconverter.git
cd soundconverter
git checkout py3k
sudo python3 setup.py install
soundconverter

Help

For command line args, see

soundconverter --help
gst-launch-1.0 --help-gst

and https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/application-development/appendix/checklist-element.html

Testing

To start unittests, use

sudo python3 setup.py install
python3 tests/test.py
python3 tests/test.py discoverer.DiscovererTest.test_read_tags

Copyright and Acknowledgements

Copyright 2004 Lars Wirzenius

Copyright 2005-2020 Gautier Portet

Co-author Sezanzeb

Thanks to: Guillaume Bedot, Dominik Zabłotny, Noa Resare, Nil Gradisnik, Elias Autio, Thom Pischke, Qball Cow, Janis Blechert, Brendan Martens, Jason Martens, Wouter Stomp, Joe Wrigley, Jonh Wendell, Regis Floret, Toni Fiz, Seketeli Apelete, Cristiano Canguçu, Adolfo González Blázquez, Marc E., Tobias Kral, Hanno Böck, Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia, James Lee, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Thomas Schwing, Remi Grolleau, Julien Gascard, Kamil Páral, Stefano Luciani, Martin Seifert, Claudio Saavedra, Ken Harris, Jon Arnold, Major Kong, Uwe Bugla

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA