Free convert audio files software for linux

This app is an audio converter for KDE. It lets you convert to and from various audio file formats (at the moment: mp3, Ogg and wav), mantaining, when possible, all the informations attached to those files (title, author and so on).
Its interface is thought as a wizard (a serie of pages navigable through back-forward buttons), so it should be quite simple to use, or so I hope.
To convert the audio files klira uses the GStreamer (0.8) library, while to read-write metadata it uses Taglib (>= 1.2) library.
Usage:
Klira usage should be quite straightforward: it is subdivided into 4 panels. In order:
- A welcome screen.
- A panel where you can choose the files you want to convert, the output directory where to put the converted files, and the target format options.
- A panel showing the conversion advance.
- A final page showing eventual errors or warnings happened during the conversion.
Installation:
Klira relies on GStreamer and Taglib (and quite obviously on KDE 3.3/QT 3.3.3 even if it should compile on KDE 3.0 and following), so if you want to compile it you have to install them first. Do not worry, though, they should be already installed in any fairly modern GNU/Linux system (just see you have installed their devel packages also). You can check if they are installed simply with:
- For Taglib
pkg-config gstreamer-0.8 --version
It should print a number >= 0.15.0
- For Taglib
taglib-config --version
it should print a number >= 1.2
Make also sure that you hava installed GStreamer plugins and created a registry (launch gst-register).
After being assured of libraries dependencies, you can compile and install klira with the usual:
./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`
make
su
make install

A front end for converting Audio CDs to compressed formats.

The MassRip package is a set of tools for converting and maintaining Audio CDs in compressed audio formats like mp3 and ogg.

This includes massrip which converts CDs to the compressed formats using cddb for track and album information. As well album_rename is for adjusting the names and meta-data tags for albums of files.

Cactus is just an audio file player. But it has some features that makes it different from other players.
There are music databases and there are players like xmms with a small and leightweight, skinable GUI.
Cactus combines these two types in one player! With Cactus you can read your music collection into a database, create a playlist by browsing/searching it and finally switch to player view(F2-Key).
Main features:
- Plattform independent
- Browse your music collection by artist, albums and titles
- Tiny lightweight player combined with a powerful database for organizing mp3-files
- Save and Load m3u Playlists
- Supports ID3v1(read/write) and ID3v2(read)
- Easy tagging of mp3-files
Enhancements:
- Some bugs concerning the playlist/tag-editing now fixed...

KAudioCreator is a front-end tool for ripping audio CDs and encoding the wav files using your favorite encoder. Based upon KDE it combines the look and feel of your desktop with the power and flexibility of the command line tools.

KAudioCreator is an audio file creation solution for KDE. It allows you to use whatever encoder you wish to encode your audio files while providing a comfortable GUI.

KAudioCreator also provides a job control system so you can see what files have succeeded, failed and stop or cancel jobs as the application progresses.

Note that the source for KAudioCreator is now kept in KDEs CVS. Please obtain it from the kdemultimedia section. The older downloads presented here (.88 and .99) are for KDE 2.X only! The Screenshots on the other hand are from the latest and greatest CVS version.

m2vmp2cut is frame accurate (currently PAL) MPEG2 video (M2V file) with accompanied MP2 audio cutter.

Frame accuracy is achieved by re-encoding video around cutpoints. Audio is cut from a separate MP2 file at positions that keep A/V sync as good as possible (maximum sync difference is around 10-15 milliseconds compared to the source).

Nautilus-audio-convert is an extension of the Gnome desktop manager Nautilus. nautilus-audio-convert introduces contextual menus hen clicking on an audio file.

The new menus permit to convert the audio file into other audio formats.

Supported audio formats are:

- Microsoft ASF (input)
- Microsoft PCM Waves (input/output)
- Mpeg3 (input/output)
- Ogg Vorbis (input/output)

Towel is a fairly basic program to play audio files. It works as a front-end to GStreamer to play both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.

Towel runs on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, using the C++ bindings for GTK+ 2.4.x and gtkmm 2.4.x.