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I have a Music folder with lots of wav files. Is it possible to get a rightclick menu for wav files to encode them into mp3 or flac?

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You can install the KDE service menus manually on Xubuntu:

  • download kde-services to /tmp
  • install:

    cd /tmp
    
    tar xf kde-services*.tar.bz2
    
    cd kde-services-1.9
    
    make
    
    sudo make install
    

This will add

multimedia tools: [extract|convert] audio track

to folders in dolphin that are containing media files

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KDE context/service menus

The Dolphin /1,2/ is a KDE file manager. As a KDE application it is using the KDE service menus /3/.

Right click audio conversion menu with the Dolphin

One option is to install the soundKonverter /4/. It is in the Ubuntu repositories /5/:

:~$ apt-cache show soundkonverter
Package: soundkonverter
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kde
...
Description: audio converter frontend for KDE
 soundKonverter is a frontend to various audio converters.
 .
 The key features are:
  - Audio conversion
  - Replay Gain calculation
  - CD ripping
 .
 soundKonverter supports reading and writing tags for many formats, so the tags
 are preserved when converting files.
 .
 See README.Debian for more information on supported formats.

Homepage: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29024

It will add the 'Convert with soundKonverter' context menu.

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Links

  1. http://dolphin.kde.org/
  2. http://www.kde.org/applications/system/dolphin/
  3. http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Creating_Konqueror_Service_Menus
  4. http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/soundKonverter?content=29024
  5. http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=soundkonverter&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
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  • apt-get install soundkonverter installs it too. You get the option in the dolphin menu on Xubuntu after a while (I restarted dolphin and went into the "Dienste" menu in settings twice until it appeared though)
    – rubo77
    Jan 20, 2014 at 7:19
  • This doesn't seem to add any context menu in dolphin on Ubuntus unity desktop. (I use 14.04)
    – rubo77
    May 14, 2014 at 11:39

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