-= Klira =-
Hi, I would like to thank you for downloading an trying this little app!
=- What is it? -=
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 (I hope).
=- How does it work? -=
To convert the audio files klira uses the GStreamer (0.8) library, while to read-write metainformations it uses Taglib (>= 1.2). These two libraries can be found here: - GStreamer: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ - Tglib: http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html Read on for a simple note on their installation
=- Usage -=
Klira usage should be quite straightforward: after a welcome screen, you choose the files you want to convert, the output directory where to put the converted files, and the target format options. After that you sit back and watch the files being converted, and eventually any arror it may have occurred during the conversion.
=- Is it finished? -=
Quite the contrary. The program is (quite) usable for basic usage, but it lacks some advanced options for file formats and sometimes the tag reading or writing does not work. If you want use it for quick and easy file converting it will work fine, if you look for an advanced audio conversion suite, well it's a bit early (look at the version number!).
=- You can help me! -=
The project is still very young. Have you got suggestions, patches, wishes, bug reports and so on? Make me know, I will listen and try to help (usually "some" days later :). You can find me here: Antonio.Fasolato@poste.it
=- A note on 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:
- GStreamer:
# pkg-config taglib-0.8 --version
It should print a number >= 0.15.0
- 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 prefix here>
> make
> su
root password
# make install