KDE Audio Converter CD Ripper soundKonverter 2.0.5 & 2.0.90 released

SoundKonverter, the KDE audio converter, Replay Gain tool and CD ripper now is at version 2.0.5 and 2.0.90 (2.1.0 rc1).

According to the changelog, soundKonverter 2.0.5 added Catalan, Swedish, Chinese (Taiwan), and Romanian translations. 2.0.90 added following new features:

Hide main window when started with –replaygain argument
Option to eject CD after ripping has been completed (enabled by default)
New space holder for the “meta data” naming mode that contains the source directory
Configuration options for cdparanoia
icedax ripper plugin
Copy album artist tags
Remember last folder for add files/directory/playlist dialogs
Add symlinked files to file list

SoundKonverter Features:

Convert audio files between many formats
Change sample rate and sample size during conversion
Apply effects like normalize during conversion
Convert the audio stream from video files to audio files
Convert multiple files at once
Calculate Replay Gain for many formats
Replay Gain tool for calculating and removing Replay Gain tags
Calculate Replay Gain for multiple files or file stets at once
Conversion and Replay Gain calculation is very scalable, the conversion of 10000 files or more is not a problem
Copy tags and covers when converting files (note: for ogg/METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, flac and asf/wma files, taglib 1.7 or higher is needed)
Rip multiple audio CDs at once
Retrieve audio CD information from CDDB and MusicBrainz
Easy to use, just choose a file format and a quality level
Detailed control, if you want to choose the conversion settings in more detail, simply switch to the “detailed” tab
Manage your preferred conversion options with profiles
Contextual help, e.g. if you don’t know what the speex format is, just click on the “info” button next to it.
Or if you want to add a file that isn’t supported, soundKonverter will tell you how to enable the format if possible.
Possibility to configure which backend shall be used for which codec – or let soundKonverter optimize that for you.
Every time you install or remove backends soundKonverter will suggest optimizations if possible.
Possibility to integrate soundKonverter in other applications or scripts by using its command line interface
Data recovery in case of a crash