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 formats, 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, filename, recordlocation, recorddate, ean/upc, year, releasedate, genre, media, index, isrc, abstract, bibliography, introplay, media, language...

--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 <[email protected]> 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.