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)
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)
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