transKode 0.5
2006/05/02

About:
KDE/Qt based frontend for varios audio transcoding tools.

Supported input formats:
 * wav
 * mp3 (needs lame, mplayer or gst-launch)
 * mpc (needs mppdec or gst-launch)
 * ogg (needs oggdec, mplayer or gst-launch)
 * flac (needs flac, mplayer or gst-launch)
 * ape/mac (needs mac or gst-launch)
 * m4a/mp4 (needs faad, mplayer or gst-launch)
 * spx (needs speexdec or gst-launch)
 * ...plus any other audio formats decodable by mplayer/gst-launch
   (needs gst-launch with spider plugin)


Supported output formats:
 * wav
 * mp3 (needs lame)
 * mpc (needs mppenc)
 * ogg (needs oggenc)
 * flac (needs flac)
 * ape/mac (needs mac)
 * m4a/mp4 (needs faac)
 * spx (needs speexenc)
 * ...plus output formats for which you have gstreamer encoding plugins
   (needs gst-launch with wavparse plugin)


Required dependencies:
 * amaroK >= 1.3 (http://amarok.kde.org/)
 * TagLib >= 1.4 (http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html)


Optional dependencies:
 * FAAC/FAAD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/)
 * FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net)
 * GStreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/)
 * LAME (http://lame.sourceforge.net)
 * Monkey's Audio Port (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/)
 * MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu)
 * Musepack (http://musepack.net)
 * OGG Vorbis (http://www.vorbis.com)
 * Speex (http://www.speex.org/)
 * Streamripper (http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/)
 * True Audio (http://www.true-audio.com)
 * WavPack (http://www.wavpack.com/)

Note that you don't need all of this programs to use the script,
(especifically, you may omit most of the listed decoders if you have an
installed mplayer or gstreamer capable of decoding the related formats).


Credits:
amaroK script originally based on AUDIO FORMAT CONVERTER v.6 by Michael Mitton
(http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23653)


Author:
Sergio Pistone <sergio_pistone@yahoo.com.ar>
Released under the GNU GPL
