Re: [gentoo-user] transkode is gone

[Frank Steinmetzger]

Am Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster:
> Hi there!
>
> media-sound/transkode [*] was a nice KDE3 application for converting
> various audio formats into others. It's gone now, and no, it's not in the
> kde-sunset overlay. I cannot even find any information on why it was
> removed.
> Building it manually does not work at all with gcc-4.3, and with lower
> versions I get somewhat further, but building does not finish, too.
>
> Any ideas why it's gone? Or where to look to find this out?
>
> And: Do you know about a replacement which takes a bunch of audio files
> and converts them info another format? I can do this on the command line,
> but transkode already has some presets for common formats and was just
> easy to use, no need to find out all needed options for lame etc.

I've used SoundKonverter¹ for this task in the past. It is also not available 
as a KDE3 app anymore, but lives on in KDE4.

¹ http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/soundKonverter?content=29024
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