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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" [

<!--
docbook2-xman manpage.xml
nroff -man manpage.section | less
-->

  <!ENTITY dhfirstname "<firstname>Jorge</firstname>">
  <!ENTITY dhsurname   "<surname>Salamero Sanz</surname>">
  <!ENTITY dhdate      "<date>12 June 2007</date>">
  <!ENTITY dhsection   "<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>">
  <!ENTITY dhemail     "<email>bencer@cauterized.net</email>">
  <!ENTITY dhusername  "Jorge Salamero Sanz">
  <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>mppenc</refentrytitle>">
  <!ENTITY dhpackage   "mppenc">

  <!ENTITY debian      "<productname>Debian</productname>">
  <!ENTITY gnu         "<acronym>GNU</acronym>">
  <!ENTITY gpl         "&gnu; <acronym>GPL</acronym>">
]>

<refentry>
  <refentryinfo>
    <address>
      &dhemail;
    </address>
    <copyright>
      <year>2007</year>
      <holder>&dhusername;</holder>
    </copyright>
    &dhdate;
  </refentryinfo>
  <refmeta>
    &dhucpackage;
    &dhsection;
  </refmeta>
  <refnamediv>
    <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
    <refpurpose>Musepack lossy audio codec encoder</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>&dhpackage;</command>

      <arg><option><replaceable>--options</replaceable></option></arg>
      <arg><option><replaceable>input_file</replaceable></option></arg>
      <arg><option><replaceable>output_file</replaceable></option></arg>

    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

    <para>
      <command>&dhpackage;</command> 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.
    </para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
     <title>INPUT FILES</title>
     <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>-</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>STDIN (only RIFF WAVE files)</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>/dev/audio</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>soundcard (OSS, 44.1 kHz)</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>*.wav</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>RIFF WAVE file</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>*.raw|cdr</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>RAW PCM file (2ch, 16bit, 44.1kHz)</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>*.fla|flac</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>FLAC file</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>*.ape</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>Monkey's Audio file (APE extension only)</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>*.sz</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>SZIP file</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>*.shn</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>Shorten file</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>*.wv</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>Wavpack file</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
     <para>
        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. 
     </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
     <title>OUTPUT FILES</title>
     <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>*.mpc</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>Musepack file</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>*.mp+|mpp</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>MPEGplus file (deprecated)</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term><option>-</option></term>
           <listitem>
              <para>STDOUT</para>
           </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>OPTIONS</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 0.00</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>below telephone, poor quality (~ 20 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 1.00</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>below telephone, poor quality (~ 30 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 2.00</option> <option>--telephone</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>telephone, low quality (~ 60 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 3.00</option> <option>--thumb</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>thumb, low/medium quality (~ 90 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 4.00</option> <option>--radio</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>radio, medium quality (~ 130 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 5.00</option> <option>--standard</option> <option>--normal</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>normal (default), high quality (~ 180 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 6.00</option> <option>--extreme</option> <option>--xtreme</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>extreme, excellent quality (~ 210 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 7.00</option> <option>--insane</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>insane, excellent quality (~ 240 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 8.00</option> <option>--braindead</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>braindead, excellent quality (~ 270 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 9.00</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>above braindead, excellent quality (~ 300 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--quality 10.00</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>above braindead, excellent quality (~ 350 kbps)</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
    <para>
       In addition, quality scale is effective centesimally (i.e. --quality 4.25).
    </para>

    <variablelist>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--silent</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>repress console messages (default: off)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--verbose</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>increase verbosity (default: off)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--longhelp</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>print long help</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--stderr FILE</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>append messages to file</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--neveroverwrite</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>never overwrite existing output file (default: off)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--interactive</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>ask to overwrite an existing output file (default: on)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--overwrite</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>overwrite existing output file (default: off)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--deleteinput</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>delete input file after encoding (default: off)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--beep</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>beep when encoding is finished (default: off)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

    <variablelist>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--unicode</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>unicode input from console (Unix only)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--tag key=value</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>add tag 'key' with 'value' as contents</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--tagfile key=file</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>add tags, take values from a file</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--tag key</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>add tags, take values from console</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--artist 'value'</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>shortcut for --tag 'Artist=value'</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--album 'value'</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>shortcut for --tag 'Album=value'</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
    <para>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...
    </para>

    <variablelist>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--skip x</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>skip the first x seconds (default: 0.0)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--dur x</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>stop encoding after at most x seconds of encoded audio</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--fade x</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>fadein+out in seconds</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--fadein x</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>fadein in seconds (default: 0.0)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--fadeout x</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>fadeout in seconds (default: 0.0)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--fadeshape x</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>fade shape, see
                http://www.uni-jena.de/~pfk/mpc/img/fade.png (default: 1.0)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--scale x</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>scale input signal by x (default: 1.00000)</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--scale x,y</option></term>
          <listitem>
             <para>scale input signal, separate for each channel</para>
          </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </refsect1>


  <refsect1>
     <title>EXAMPLES</title>

       <para><command>mppenc inputfile.wav</command></para>
       <para><command>mppenc inputfile.wav outputfile.mpc</command></para>
       <para><command>mppenc --radio inputfile.wav outputfile.mpc</command></para>
       <para><command>mppenc --silent --radio --pns 0.25 inputfile.wav outputfile.mpc</command></para>
       <para><command>mppenc --nmt 12 --tmn 28 inputfile.wav outputfile.mpc</command></para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>AUTHOR</title>

    <para>This manual page was written by &dhusername; &dhemail; 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.
    </para>
    <para>
      On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
      License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
    </para>

  </refsect1>

</refentry>