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Perl Audio Converter
A Linux tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another.
It supports the following audio formats:
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3G2, 3GP, 8SVX, AAC, AC3, ADTS, AIFF, AL, AMB, AMR, APE, AU,
AVR, BONK, CAF, CDR, CVU, DAT, DSF, DTS, DVMS, F32, F64, FAP, FLA,
FLAC, FSSD, GSRT, HCOM, IMA, IRCAM, LA, MAT, MAUD, MAT4, MAT5,
M4A, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFF, OFR, OFS, OPUS, OGA,
OGG, PAF, PRC, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, RF64, SD2, SF, SHN, SMP, SND,
SOU, SPX, SRN, TAK, TTA, TXW, VOC, VMS, VQF, W64, WAV, WMA,
and WV.
It can also extract audio from the following video extensions:
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RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, OGV, QT, VCD,
SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, WEBM and WMV.
Parallel processing, a CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion,
tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading & writing,
service menus for KDE Dolphin/Konqueror, Gnome Nautilus script, & Nemo action
script are also provided.
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below is a list of supported applications, and the minimum version requirement.
app version address
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aften 0.0.8 http://sourceforge.net/projects/aften/
dcaenc 2 http://aepatrakov.narod.ru/index/0-2
mp3HD Toolkit 1.4.2 http://goo.gl/gJKoWx
lame 3.99.5 http://lame.sourceforge.net
toolame 0.2l http://sourceforge.net/projects/toolame/
twolame 0.3.13 http://www.twolame.org
bladeenc 0.92.1b5 http://www.osl.iu.edu/~jsquyres/bladeenc/
flac 1.2.1 http://flac.sourceforge.net
mac 3.99 http://goo.gl/4mhvWV
shorten 3.6.1 http://www.etree.org/shnutils/shorten/
faac 1.26 https://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/files/
faad 2.7 https://sourceforge.net/projects/faad2-src/files
cdparanoia 10.2 http://www.xiph.org/paranoia
oggenc/oggdec 1.4.0 http://www.vorbis.com
mplayer 1.0pre7 http://www.mplayerhq.hu
speexenc 1.2rc1 http://www.speex.org
speexdec 1.2rc1 http://www.speex.org
sndfile-convert 1.0.25 http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
mpcenc 1.30 http://www.musepack.net
mpcdec 1.00 http://www.musepack.net
wavpack 4.60.1 http://www.wavpack.com
ofr/ofs 4.520 http://www.LosslessAudio.org
ttaenc 3.4.1 http://www.true-audio.com
ffmpeg 2.0 http://www.ffmpeg.org
libav (avconv) 0.0.5 http://www.libav.org
la 0.4 http://www.lossless-audio.com
bonk 0.6 http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/bonk
sox 12.17.8 http://sox.sourceforge.net/
flake 0.11 http://flake-enc.sourceforge.net/download.html
opus & opus-tools 1.0.3 http://www.opus-codec.org/downloads/ (you need both)
For help and more information, see the manual page for pacpl