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soundKonverter Changelog

What's new in soundKonverter 2.2.1

May 3, 2016
  • Add: Dutch, Spanish (Argentina) and Polish (Poland) translations
  • Change: Swedish translation moved to Swedish (Sweden)
  • Change: Update translations

New in soundKonverter 2.2.0 (Apr 7, 2016)

  • 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 in soundKonverter 2.1.2 (Dec 8, 2014)

  • Fix: False error detection in the Replay Gain tool
  • Fix: Properly re-paint conversion file list on status change

New in soundKonverter 2.1.1 (Apr 14, 2014)

  • Add: Check for MP4 support in faac
  • Fix: Don't run vorbisgain more than once per directory
  • Fix: Progress bar jumps when a file finished

New in soundKonverter 2.1.0 RC2 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Add: Full GUI support for album artist tags including the CD ripper
  • Add: Chinese translation
  • Change: Replace uses of fixed pixel metrics with sizes based on the default font size
  • Fix: CD ripper layout

New in soundKonverter 2.1.0 RC1 (Dec 23, 2013)

  • Add: Hide main window when started with --replaygain argument
  • Add: Option to eject CD after ripping has been completed (enabled by default)
  • Add: New space holder for the "meta data" naming mode that contains the source directory
  • Add: Configuration options for cdparanoia
  • Add: icedax ripper plugin
  • Add: Copy album artist tags
  • Change: Remember last folder for add files/directory/playlist dialogs
  • Change: Add symlinked files to file list

New in soundKonverter 2.0.5 (Dec 21, 2013)

  • Add: Catalan translation
  • Add: Swedish translation
  • Add: Chinese (Taiwan) translation
  • Add: Romanian translation
  • Fix: Don't mix up total tracks and total discs when reading vorbis comments

New in soundKonverter 2.0.3 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • Fix: Update normalize filter widget properly
  • Fix: Show more than one filter widget at a time
  • Fix: Load normalize options properly from saved profiles (could lead to a crash)

New in soundKonverter 2.0.2 (May 7, 2013)

  • Add: Italian translation
  • Fix: Find normalize properly

New in soundKonverter 2.0.1 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • French translation

New in soundKonverter 2.0.0 (Mar 11, 2013)

  • Add: Update translations
  • Remove: French translation (only 58% translated)

New in soundKonverter 2.0.0 RC1 (Feb 25, 2013)

  • Add: Option to not modify the audio stream of mp3 files when calculating Replay Gain
  • Add: libav plugin
  • Fix: Modify mp3 stream when forcing the recalculation of Replay Gain
  • Fix: Don't try to calculate Replay Gain if it is impossible
  • Fix: Down/upmixing with sox
  • Fix: Sox effects wouldn't work
  • Fix: Recognice mp3 and amr nb encoding support in ffmpeg/libav plugins
  • Fix: Crash when encoding with sox and without filters
  • Fix: Calculate Replay Gain if there is only one track in the album

New in soundKonverter 2.0.0 Beta 1 (Jan 19, 2013)

  • Add: Parallel Replay Gain calculation in the Replay Gain tool
  • Add: Move tracks to new Album via context menu in the Replay Gain tool
  • Add: sox plugin with support for some new file formats (8svx, aiff, amr wb)
  • Add: Convert sample rate and sample size, downmix and apply effects (normalize, bass and treble) using sox
  • Add: Copy embedded covers for ogg files using METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE
  • Add: Option to switch between COMMENT and DESCRIPTION as preferred comment field for ogg vorbis and flac files
  • Add: Option to select preferred total tracks/discs number fields for ogg vorbis and flac files
  • Add: Copy the tags total tracks/discs number, MusicBrainz Track Id and MusicBrainz Release Id
  • Add: Compression level option for the lame plugin
  • Add: Opus support (via opus-tools)
  • Change: Remember dimensions of the sub-windows and dialogs
  • Change: Sampling rate and number of channels can as of now only be changed through a filter plugin (currently only sox)
  • Change: Immediately start converting a file after adding it to the file list if the conversion is running in queue mode
  • Change: Quit soundKonverter when canceling the CD ripper dialog if soundKonverter was started with the --rip option
  • Change: Quit the Replay Gain tool when it gets closed
  • Change: Rename the m4a format to m4a/aac and alac to m4a/alac
  • Fix: Handle internal Replay Gain calculation properly
  • Fix: Don't accept dropping tracks onto albums with different codec or sampling rate in the Replay Gain tool
  • Fix: Better file type recognition
  • Fix: Output options control via command line parameters when ripping audio cds
  • Fix: User defined parameters for mpcenc when using a preset

New in soundKonverter 1.6.4 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • Fix: Stall when Replay Gain plugin returns error code (e.g. when trying to remove musepack gain)
  • Fix: Some memory leaks
  • Fix: Performance improvements when adding large directories
  • Fix: Recognize file type correctly if extension is upper case
  • Fix: Dropping directories on the Replay Gain tool wouldn't work

New in soundKonverter 1.6.1 (Jun 8, 2012)

  • Fix: Don't try to restore the file list when calling soundKonverter while it is running

New in soundKonverter 1.5.0 RC1 (May 2, 2012)

  • Add: Copy embedded covers for wma files
  • Add: Calculate Album Gain for albums in the conversion list
  • Add: Russian translation
  • Change: Replace Spanish Argentinian translation (es_AR) with Spanish (es) since KDE isn't able to use es_AR translations
  • Fix: Cdrom drive detection would fail with Ubuntu 12.04 (patch by Eike Thaden)
  • Fix: Musicbrainz lookup not working if data track present (patch by Eike Thaden)
  • Fix: Don't show data tracks in the CD ripper UI (patch by Eike Thaden)
  • Fix: Musicbrainz lookup would only work through the freedb gateway (patch by Eike Thaden)

New in soundKonverter 1.3.3 (Feb 23, 2012)

  • Change: Piping is disabled by default, it can be activated in the config dialog though
  • Fix: Some piping bugs with vorbistools and ffmpeg
  • Fix: Crash when adding a directory

New in soundKonverter 1.3.1 (Feb 13, 2012)

  • Add: Update translations
  • Fix: Crash when trying to write covers

New in soundKonverter 1.3.0 (Feb 5, 2012)

  • Add: Update translations

New in soundKonverter 1.3.0 RC1 (Jan 30, 2012)

  • Add: Copy embedded covers for ogg (only reading), mp3, mp4 and flac files
  • Add: Option to copy embedded covers to the output directory
  • Add: Honor total disc numbers
  • Add: Session management
  • Change: By default log files won't be written to the hard drive anymore, it can be activated in the config dialog though
  • Fix: Conversion problems when using pipes with newer KDE/Qt versions
  • Fix: Don't write empty tags
  • Fix: Initial loading of conversion profiles

New in soundKonverter 1.2.1 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Add: French translation
  • Fix: Make mplayer log less when decoding videos
  • Fix: Remove old log files on start up

New in soundKonverter 1.2.0 (Oct 24, 2011)

  • Add: Update translations
  • Remove: French, Serbian, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese translations since they are less than 80% complete

New in soundKonverter 1.2.0 RC1 (Oct 5, 2011)

  • Add: Aften plugin
  • Add: Speex plugin
  • Add: Plugin info dialog
  • Add: Make it possible to use experimental codecs with ffmpeg
  • Add: Make it possible to use user defined arguments with ffmpeg
  • Add: Re-add aac/m4a encoding to the ffmpeg plugin
  • Change: Query ffmpeg for supported codecs

New in soundKonverter 1.1.0 (Sep 12, 2011)

  • Add: Estonian translation (by Mihkel Tõnnov)
  • Add: Serbian translation (by Slobodan Terzić)
  • Add: Spanish (Argentinian) translation (by akana_sfe)
  • Change: Only use wav as temp codec

New in soundKonverter 1.1.0 RC1 (Aug 17, 2011)

  • Add: Portuguese translation (by Sérgio Marques)
  • Add: Brazilian Portuguese translation (by Tex Weissffudder)
  • Add: Russian translation (by Alexey Ivanov)
  • Add: Inform the user if there is a better backend available for a given format (e.g. prefer lame over ffmpeg)
  • Add: Make it possible to choose the preferred extension for ogg vorbis files
  • Add: Playing CD tracks before ripping them
  • Add: Fluidsynth plugin
  • Add: Possibility to write temporary files to /dev/shm
  • Change: Prevent options dialogs from getting too wide
  • Change: Automatically remove FAT incompatible characters if output directory is on a FAT volume
  • Change: MusePack: Find mpenc, mpcdec and mpcgain backends, too
  • Fix: CDDB requests
  • Fix: Handle files with dollar signs and backticks (`) correctly
  • Fix: Filnames wouldn't be FAT compatible if output mode was copy directory structure
  • Fix: Display correct progress when applying Replay Gain to multiple ogg vorbis files
  • Fix: Replay Gain Scanner wouldn't work properly with files of different format

New in soundKonverter 1.0.0 (May 30, 2011)

  • Add: Option to choose between APE and ID3v2 tags for mp3gain and aacgain
  • Add: Hungarian translation (by Dr. Orosz Tamás)
  • Add: French translation (by Yannick Ernult)
  • Fix: Call neroAacEnc with the correct bitrate
  • Fix: Undo mp3gain and aacgain changes correctly
  • Fix: Load the right Replay Gain plugin
  • Change: Make it possible to overwrite hidden lame parameters with the additional parameters option
  • Change: Distinguish between aac and m4a files, where aac is the transport stream and m4a an mp4 container with aac data; mp4 is the video container

New in soundKonverter 1.0.0 RC3 (Apr 11, 2011)

  • Add: Updated czech translation (by Pavel Fric)
  • Add: Read Replay Gain in more formats
  • Add: Save last 5 output directory paths (accessible through the directory combobox)
  • Add: Option to specify how the Replay Gain scanner should group files
  • Change: Close soundkonverter if --autoclose was passed, even if the main window is visible
  • Change: Remove internal Replay Gain calculation from lame plugin since it's not writing tags
  • Change: Use PATH variable to find backends
  • Change: Activate Replay Gain tool when adding files
  • Fix: Display correct conversion options in the conversion options editor with multiple files selected
  • Fix: Apply output directory to the conversion options input widget
  • Fix: Don't update conversion options or tags in the conversion options editor with multiple files selected if they don't match
  • Fix: Make edit conversion options/tags buttons in the conversion options editor work
  • Fix: Fix possible crash in the log viewer
  • Fix: Handle files with quotation characters (") correctly
  • Fix: When adding multiple files of different formats, the formats wouldn't be recognized correctly

New in soundKonverter 1.0.0 RC2 (Dec 2, 2010)

  • Add: Updated czech translation (by Pavel Fric)
  • Fix: Tint items in the Replay Gain scanner red while calculating Replay Gain
  • Fix: Make the Replay Gain scanner skip file with calculated tags
  • Fix: Ensure items in the file list and Replay Gain file list get redrawn after an update
  • Fix: Hide open directory dialog before scanning the directory to show the progressbar
  • Fix: Don't crash when deleting file list items
  • Fix: Don't recognize vorbis files as flac
  • Fix: Call lame with correct --abr and --cbr parameters

New in soundKonverter 1.0.0 RC1 (Nov 2, 2010)

  • Add: Video formats for ffmpeg and mplayer
  • Add: German translation
  • Change: Re-enable the CD ripper (using paranoia again)
  • Change: Save frames properly when generating cuesheet files
  • Fix: Retry conversion if file output size is too small
  • Fix: Delete temp files properly if a conversion pipe failed
  • Fix: alac extensions
  • Fix: Some bugs in the CD ripper dialog
  • Fix: Drag'n'drop directories wouldn't work
  • Fix: Make shortcuts work

New in soundKonverter 1.0.0 Beta 3 (Sep 9, 2010)

  • Add: User defined command line arguments for lame and some new plugins
  • Add: User defined command to execute after a file has been converted
  • Add: Create action menus for the file manager
  • Add: Flake plugin
  • Add: TwoLame plugin (Warning: Corrupted a file while testing)
  • Add: Monkey's Audio Compressor plugin
  • Add: WavPack and Wv Gain plugin
  • Add: shorten plugin
  • Add: MusePack codec and replaygain plugins
  • Change: Disable CD ripper, due to some incompatibilitys with kde (still accessible through the command line though)
  • Change: Create temp files in the kdeuser temp dir
  • Change: Remove partially converted files on abort or fail
  • Change: Remove old KDE4 action menus created by soundKonverter 0.3
  • Fix: Remove audio/mpeg mime type from mp1 and mp2 codecs in the ffmpeg and mplayer plugins because it would conflict with mp3
  • Fix: soundKonverter would get stuck when trying to add replaygain (add argument for mp3gain/aacgain to lower gain to avoid clipping)
  • Fix: soundkonverter would crash when trying to rip a cd or add files if the options widget can't be initialized correctly
  • Fix: The options widget wasn't initialized correctly causing some crashes
  • Fix: Don't truncate text in the combo button (add files, etc.)
  • Fix: Try the plugin selected by the user in the detailed tab at first
  • Fix: The options editor dialog would show wrong data

New in soundKonverter 1.0.0 Beta 2 (Jul 16, 2010)

  • Add: flac and metaflac plugins
  • Add: faac, neroaac and aacgain plugins
  • Add: timidity plugin
  • Add: Enclosing %x space holders in the output directory with "[]" will only activate the space holder if the tag is not empty
  • Add: Czech translation (by Pavel Fric)
  • Change: use input file name as output file name if output mode is set to "metadata" and the file name can't be filled with either the track number or title
  • Change: added message box to warn the user when trying to rip audio cds with kde < 4.4.0
  • Change: don't close soundkonverter when started invisible but the conversion was aborted by the user
  • Change: don't save file list after each succeeded conversion because it was slowing down the conversion when converting a lot of files
  • Fix: File conflict handling
  • Fix: Update file list if configuration changed
  • Fix: Rip CDs by passing parameters to soundkonverter
  • Fix: Replay Gain tool would only process one file/album
  • Fix: Downloading files from remote locations
  • Fix: Options editor wouldn't save modified tags
  • Fix: Hitting the button "edit tags" in the options editor wouldn't work
  • Fix: The options editor would cause a crash when files where removed from the file list
  • Fix: Race condition when trying to convert multiple files having the same output file name simultaneously

New in soundKonverter 0.3.11 (Dec 6, 2009)

  • Fix: ffmpeg parameters for metadata removed

New in soundKonverter 0.3.10 (Jul 5, 2009)

  • 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

New in soundKonverter 0.3.9 (Oct 31, 2008)

  • Add: (hidden) option to change output file permissions (default: 644)
  • Add: Swedish translation (thanks to Daniel Nylander)
  • Fix: save changes to output directory properly
  • Fix: Updated Polish translation (thanks to Tomek Argasiński)
  • Fix: Files with special characters passed as arguments (opened via konqueror service menu) should be handled correctly now
  • Fix: Amarok script now transcodes files properly when transfering to media device
  • Fix: Added missing system tray icon