        README for GNOME sound converter application
        ============================================

A simple sound converter application for the GNOME environment. It reads 
anything the GStreamer library can read, and writes WAV, FLAC, MP3, and 
Ogg Vorbis files.

This application is somewhat less fast than various command line tools.
Not a whole lot, however, and not enough to make me worry about
performance for the foreseeable future. If you want ultimate
performance, the command line tools are always going to be preferable.

        Supported audio formats
        -----------------------

All file formats that GStreamer can read from should now be supported
(thanks to the wonderful "decodebin" element). The output formats are
more restricted, however, since there is no "encodebin" element to
magically convert to any format we might want.

        Type                Supported?

        Ogg Vorbis          yes
        FLAC                yes
        Wave                yes
        MP3                 yes 

        Copyright and acknowledgements
        ------------------------------

Copyright 2004 Lars Wirzenius
Copyright 2005-2009 Gautier Portet

thanks to:
	Guillaume Bedot
	Dominik Zabłotny
	Noa Resare
	Nil Gradisnik
	Elias Autio
	Thom Pischke
	Qball Cow
	Janis Blechert
	Brendan Martens
	Jason Martens
	Wouter Stomp
	Joe Wrigley
	Jonh Wendell
	Regis Floret
	Toni Fiz
	Seketeli Apelete
	Cristiano Canguçu
	Adolfo González Blázquez
	Marc E.
	Tobias Kral
	Hanno Böck
	Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia
	James Lee
	Christopher Barrington-Leigh
	Thomas Schwing
	Remi Grolleau
	Julien Gascard
	Kamil Páral
	Stefano Luciani
	Martin Seifert
	Claudio Saavedra
	Ken Harris
	Jon Arnold
	Major Kong
	Uwe Bugla

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
