SoundConverter an open-source tool for audio files conversion in linux

SoundConverter is the most useful open-source version of an audio file converter. It has maximum support for the GNOME Desktop environment. It can read anything that GStreamer codecs can read.

SoundConverter supports the following Input file formats :

1.Ogg Vorbis

2.AAC

3.MP3

4.FLAC

5.WAV

6.AVI

7.MPEG

8.MOV

9.M4A

10.AC3

11.DTS

12.ALAC

13.MPC

14.Shorten

15.APE

16.SID

17.MOD

18.XM

19.S3M

SoundConverter writes output to the following file formats:

1.Opus

2.Ogg Vorbis

3.FLAC

4.WAV

5.AAC

6.MP3

7. or any GNOME Audio Profile.

Allows you to write the following description:

Profile name - It allows writing the user-friendly name of the profile.

Profile description - It allows writing a description text of a profile.

GStreamer pipeline -It allows writing the GStreamer encoding pipeline.

File extension -It allows writing the filename extension associated with this profile.

Active - It allows writing to check whether this profile is listed in the client application or not.

Sound Converter software technical details:

The programming language used for development: python, GTK

License: GNU GPL V3(General Public License)

Operating Systems supported: GNU/Linux and other Linux distributions.

Platforms supported: X86(32-bit), X64(64-bit), and Power PC

Home page URLhttps://soundconverter.org/

Download URL:https://soundconverter.org/ OR

https://github.com/kassoulet/soundconverter

Tutorials URL:https://soundconverter.org/ OR

https://launchpad.net/soundconverter/+download OR

https://github.com/kassoulet/soundconverter

Top Features of Sound Converter:

It has a Simple, Clean, and user-friendly Graphic user interface.

Sound Converter is simple to use.

It is a fast audio converter software.

It has a multithreaded software architecture.

Using a multithreaded file conversion process, it can process a multiple set of files in less amount of time.

It uses as many as possible system cores to speed up the audio conversion rate.

It provides fast render support.

It can also extract the audio from videos(supports audio separation from video).

It Uses a tagging approach to change file names and directory names.

External Libraries used by Sound Converter:

GNOME:

It is an open-source, free desktop environment for Linux/Unix.

GNU network object model environment.written in XML,C++,HTML,Python,Jscript, and CSS.

It focuses on graphical objects representation in the Operating system or Linux applications. It has a well crafted GUI and easy to use.

PYGTK:

It is a collection of python programming wrappers for GTK+graphical user interface components. It is licensed under LGPL. It supports GUI wrappers for QT, wxwidgets, pyQt, Pywxwidgets.

It is developed using: Python, C.

Linke to download: https://pypi.org/project/PyGTK/

To install via terminal use the following command:

>pip install PyGTK

GStreamer-python:

It is a python binding supplement for GUI /Multimedia objects processing.

It writes object introspections using python

Git repo: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-python

To download use: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-python

GStreamer-lame:

It provides encoding support to raw integer bits into MPEG-1 format(MP3).

It encodes the mono audio stream at a fixed resampling rate.

Command-line usage manual:

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/lame/index.html?gi-language=c

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/lame/index.html?gi-language=python

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/lame/index.html?gi-language=javascript

Sound Converter Screenshots:

how to do Editing with Sound Converter:

1]Add files in the workspace.

2]set the preferred output format.

3]set an output file location.

4]set the required bitrate.

5]click the convert button.

The Sound Converter Menubar elements:

1] File menu:

Add file: It allows users to import/open a single audio file in the workspace.

Add folder: It allows users to import/open a folder with a set of audio files in the workspace.

Remove: It allows users to remove files from the workspace.

Quit: Allows users to Close Sound Converter GUI.

2] Edit menu:

select all: It allows users to choose a set of audio files in the workspace for processing.

Clear list: It allows users to remove a list of audio files from a workspace.

Preferences: It opens the settings and preferences dialog.

1]Location to store processed files:

It allows the user to set a directory to store output files after the conversion process.

2]File naming format:

It allows the user to set the file naming format for output files after the conversion process.

It includes patterns, prefix, and suffix to pad with the file name.

3]Type of result:

It allows the user to set a preferred output file format after the conversion process.

It includes options such as MP3, WAV, Opus, Ogg, and flac.

4]File quality:

It allows the user to set a preferred output audio quality after the conversion process.

It includes options such as very low, low, normal, high, very high, and instant high.

5]Set the targeted bit rate:

It allows the user to set a preferred resampling rate in frequency value with mono output and several parallel tasks.

Convert < > option: it allows users to convert input files to the required output file format.

File properties:

SoundConverter preferences:

3]help

about: It allows users to view the information about Sound Converter. It includes the website and documentation page.

Basic requirements to run Sound Converter are as follows:

Operating system: Linux

Desktop Environment: GNOME

Compiler/Interpreter: Python

Library: PyGTK

Library: GStreamer

Library: GStreamer-python

Library: Gnome-python

Library: GStreamer-lame for MP3 output

enable mp3 encoding in Linux

Sound Converter Download Page:

Steps to install Sound Converter:

Step 1: download Sound Converter tarball or zip distribution

https://github.com/kassoulet/soundconverter

Step 2: Extract files from .tar package

>tar -xvzf soundconverter.tar

Step 3: change file permissions for execution

>sudo chmod +x *

use to change the mode of a file to executable.

Step 4: execute the installer

>sudo python setup.py

to run the setup file and finish the installation.

For Ubuntu users:

double click on the install.sh file to run the installation

use > ./install.sh as command

Git clone to install Sound Converter:

step1: clone from GITHUB

> git clone https://github.com/kassoulet/soundconverter.git

step2: go to the download location

> cd soundconverter

step3: Check for python3 support

> git checkout py3k

step4: Compile packages using python3

> sudo python3 setup.py install

step5: run sound converter

> soundconverter

GStreamer MP3 Encoding support installation on various Linux distributions:

Mandriva

> install package gstreamer0.10-lame.

Fedora

> Add the RPM Fusion repository.

Install gstreamer-plugins-ugly.

Gentoo

> Install package gst-plugins-lame.

Debian

> Add the deb-multimedia repository to apt sources.

> Install package gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly.

OpenSuse

> You need the gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-Orig-addon package, available here: packman package.

Arch Linux

> Install package gst-plugins-ugly.

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