soundKonverter is a frontend to various audio converters.
soundKonverter is in maintenance mode.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Convert audio files between many formats.
- Change sample rate and sample size during conversion.
- Apply effects like normalize during conversion.
- Convert the audio stream from video files to audio files.
- Convert multiple files at once.
- Calculate Replay Gain for many formats.
- Replay Gain tool for calculating and removing Replay Gain tags.
- Calculate Replay Gain for multiple files or file stets at once.
- Conversion and Replay Gain calculation is very scalable, the conversion of 10000 files or more is not a problem.
- Copy tags and covers when converting files (note: for ogg/METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, flac and asf/wma files, taglib 1.7 or higher is needed).
- Rip multiple audio CDs at once.
- Retrieve audio CD information from CDDB and MusicBrainz.
- Easy to use, just choose a file format and a quality level.
- Detailed control, if you want to choose the conversion settings in more detail, simply switch to the “detailed” tab.
- Manage your preferred conversion options with profiles.
- Contextual help, e.g. if you don’t know what the speex format is, just click on the “info” button next to it.
Or if you want to add a file that isn’t supported, soundKonverter will tell you how to enable the format if possible. - Possibility to configure which backend shall be used for which codec – or let soundKonverter optimize that for you.
Every time you install or remove backends soundKonverter will suggest optimizations if possible. - Possibility to integrate soundKonverter in other applications or scripts by using its command line interface.
- Data recovery in case of a crash.
Website: github.com/dfaust/soundkonverter/wiki
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Daniel Faust
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

soundKonverter is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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