A simple sound converter
application for the GNOME environment. It reads anything the GStreamer library can
read, and writes Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Wave, MP3 and M4A files.
This application is somewhat less fast than various command line tools. Not a whole lot, however, and not enough to make me worry about performance for the foreseeable future. If you want ultimate performance, the command line tools are always going to be preferable.
Ubuntu and Arch packages exist in the official repositories.
Installing from source requires distutils-extra
git clone https://github.com/kassoulet/soundconverter.git
cd soundconverter
git checkout main
sudo python3 setup.py install
soundconverterFor command line args, see
soundconverter --help
gst-launch-1.0 --help-gst
To start unittests, use
sudo python3 setup.py install
python3 tests/test.py
python3 tests/test.py discoverer.DiscovererTest.test_read_tagsBefore submitting patches or merge requests, please make sure the source code is well formatted and do not trigger lint errors:
ruff format soundconverter bin/soundconverter
ruff check soundconverter bin/soundconverter You can also use the black formatter and pylint of course.
Copyright 2004 Lars Wirzenius
Copyright 2005-2025 Gautier Portet
Copyright 2020-2025 Sezanzeb
Thanks to: Guillaume Bedot, Dominik Zabłotny, Noa Resare, Nil Gradisnik, Elias Autio, Thom Pischke, Qball Cow, Janis Blechert, Brendan Martens, Jason Martens, Wouter Stomp, Joe Wrigley, Jonh Wendell, Regis Floret, Toni Fiz, Seketeli Apelete, Cristiano Canguçu, Adolfo González Blázquez, Marc E., Tobias Kral, Hanno Böck, Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia, James Lee, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Thomas Schwing, Remi Grolleau, Julien Gascard, Kamil Páral, Stefano Luciani, Martin Seifert, Claudio Saavedra, Ken Harris, Jon Arnold, Major Kong, Uwe Bugla
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA