README for GNOME sound converter application

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

Supported audio formats

All file formats that GStreamer can read from should now be supported
(thanks to the wonderful "decodebin" element). The output formats are
more restricted, however, since there is no "encodebin" element to
magically convert to any format we might want.

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Type Supported?
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Ogg Vorbis yes
FLAC yes
Wave yes
MP3 yes
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Copyright and acknowledgements
------------------------------, Copyright 2004 Lars Wirzenius, Copyright 2005-2017 Gautier Portet, 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

Building and installation

To build from the latest source, use::

git clone https://github.com/kassoulet/soundconverter.git
cd soundconverter
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

It is also available in the arch repositories::

sudo pacman -S soundconverter

As well as the debian repositories::

sudo apt install soundconverter

Testing

To start unittests, use::

make test