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mppenc(1) mppenc(1) NAME
mppenc - Musepack lossy audio codec encoder SYNOPSIS
mppenc [--options] [input_file] [output_file] DESCRIPTION
mppenc is a Musepack lossy audio codec encoder. Musepack is a lossy audio codec specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160-180 kbit/s. INPUT FILES
- STDIN (only RIFF WAVE files) /dev/audio soundcard (OSS, 44.1 kHz) *.wav RIFF WAVE file *.raw|cdr RAW PCM file (2ch, 16bit, 44.1kHz) *.pac|lpac LPAC file (Windows only) *.fla|flac FLAC file *.ape Monkey's Audio file (APE extension only) *.rka|rkau RK Audio file (Windows only) *.sz SZIP file *.shn Shorten file *.wv Wavpack file .ofr OptimFROG file (Windows only) Currently only 32, 37.8, 44.1 and 48 kHz, 1-8 channels, 8-32 bit linear PCM is supported. When using one of the lossless compressed for- mats, a proper binary must be installed within the system's $PATH. OUTPUT FILES
*.mpc Musepack file *.mp+|mpp MPEGplus file (deprecated) - STDOUT OPTIONS
--quality 0.00 below telephone, poor quality (~ 20 kbps) --quality 1.00 below telephone, poor quality (~ 30 kbps) --quality 2.00 --telephone telephone, low quality (~ 60 kbps) --quality 3.00 --thumb thumb, low/medium quality (~ 90 kbps) --quality 4.00 --radio radio, medium quality (~ 130 kbps) --quality 5.00 --standard --normal normal (default), high quality (~ 180 kbps) --quality 6.00 --extreme --xtreme extreme, excellent quality (~ 210 kbps) --quality 7.00 --insane insane, excellent quality (~ 240 kbps) --quality 8.00 --braindead braindead, excellent quality (~ 270 kbps) --quality 9.00 above braindead, excellent quality (~ 300 kbps) --quality 10.00 above braindead, excellent quality (~ 350 kbps) In addition, quality scale is effective centesimally (i.e. --quality 4.25). --silent repress console messages (default: off) --verbose increase verbosity (default: off) --longhelp print long help --stderr FILE append messages to file --neveroverwrite never overwrite existing output file (default: off) --interactive ask to overwrite an existing output file (default: on) --overwrite overwrite existing output file (default: off) --deleteinput delete input file after encoding (default: off) --beep beep when encoding is finished (default: off) --unicode unicode input from console (Unix only) --tag key=value add tag 'key' with 'value' as contents --tagfile key=file add tags, take values from a file --tag key add tags, take values from console --artist 'value' shortcut for --tag 'Artist=value' --album 'value' shortcut for --tag 'Album=value' Other possible keys are: debutalbum, publisher, conductor, title, subtitle, track, comment, composer, copyright, publicationright, file- name, recordlocation, recorddate, ean/upc, year, releasedate, genre, media, index, isrc, abstract, bibliography, introplay, media, lan- guage... --skip x skip the first x seconds (default: 0.0) --dur x stop encoding after at most x seconds of encoded audio --fade x fadein+out in seconds --fadein x fadein in seconds (default: 0.0) --fadeout x fadeout in seconds (default: 0.0) --fadeshape x fade shape, see http://www.uni-jena.de/~pfk/mpc/img/fade.png (default: 1.0) --scale x scale input signal by x (default: 1.00000) --scale x,y scale input signal, separate for each channel EXAMPLES
mppenc inputfile.wav mppenc inputfile.wav outputfile.mpc mppenc --radio inputfile.wav outputfile.mpc mppenc --silent --radio --pns 0.25 inputfile.wav outputfile.mpc mppenc --nmt 12 --tmn 28 inputfile.wav outputfile.mpc AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jorge Salamero Sanz <bencer@cauterized.net> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. 12 June 2007 mppenc(1)
