Added KDE3 version of SoundKonverter

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+CONTENT
+=======
+1. About soundKonverter
+2. Backends
+3. Compile soundKonverter
+4. Known bugs
+
+
+1. About soundKonverter 0.3.8
+=============================
+ - Released by Daniel Faust (hessijames@gmail.com) under the terms of the GPL v2 -
+
+soundKonverter is frontend to various audio converters.
+
+The key features are:
+- Audio conversion
+- Replay Gain calculation
+- CD ripping
+
+It is extendable by plugins and supports many backends:
+ En-/decoding: oggenc/oggdec, lame, gogo, faac/faad, mppenc/mppdec, flac, mac, mplayer, ffmpeg, shorten, ttaenc, bonk, ofr, ofs, wavpack, lac, lpac, speexenc/speexdec, timidity
+ Replay Gain: vorbisgain, mp3gain, aacgain, replaygain (MusePack), metaflac, wvgain
+ CD ripping: kio_audiocd, cdda2wav, cdparanoia
+This way you can convert between various audio formats:
+ Decoding: ogg, mp3, mp2, m4a/mp4, aac, 3gp, mpc/mp+, flac, ape, wma, asf/asx, ra, rv, rm, avi, mpeg, wmv, qt/mov, flv, ac3, au/snd, shn, tta, bonk, ofr, ofs, wv, la, pac, spx, mid, mod/s3m/stm/ult/uni/xm/m15/mtm/669/it, wav
+ Encoing: ogg, mp3, mp2, m4a, aac, mpc, flac, ape, ra, ac3, au, shn, tta, bonk, ofr, ofs, wv, la, pac, spx, wav
+
+soundKonverter supports reading and writing tags for many formats, so the tags are preserved when converting files.
+It comes with an Amarok script that allows you to easily transcode files when transfering to your media device.
+And it is avalable in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese.
+
+2. Backends
+===========
+
+110.oggvorbis.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.vorbis.com
+
+120.lame.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://lame.sf.net
+
+122.twolame.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.twolame.org
+
+123.toolame.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://toolame.sourceforge.net
+
+125.gogo.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://homepage2.nifty.com/kei-i/
+
+127.faac.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.audiocoding.com
+
+130.musepack.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.musepack.net
+
+135.flac.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://flac.sourceforge.net
+
+137.mac.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.monkeysaudio.com
+
+140.mplayer.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.mplayerhq.hu
+
+145.ffmpeg.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu
+
+146.ffmpeg-lossless.soundkonverter.xml
+    Same as above, splitted just for internal use!
+
+150.shorten.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.hornig.net/shorten.html
+
+151.tta.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://tta.sourceforge.net
+
+153.bonk.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/bonk/
+
+155.optimfrog.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.losslessaudio.org
+
+156.optimfrog-dualstream.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.losslessaudio.org
+
+158.wavpack.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.wavpack.com
+
+160.lac.soundkonverter.xml
+    Important: Rename the encoder "la" to "lac" because "la" is already used on linux!
+    http://www.lossless-audio.com
+
+165.lpac.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.html
+
+170.speex.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.speex.org
+
+180.timidity.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://timidity.sourceforge.net
+
+210.vorbisgain.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://sjeng.org/vorbisgain.html
+
+220.mp3gain.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net
+
+225.aacgain.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://altosdesign.com/aacgain/
+
+230.replaygain.soundkonverter.xml
+    This is the Replay Gain tool for musepack files!
+    http://www.musepack.net
+
+240.metaflac.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://flac.sourceforge.net
+
+250.wvgain.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.wavpack.com
+
+310.cdda2wav.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://www.cdda2wav.de
+
+320.cdparanoia.soundkonverter.xml
+    http://xiph.org/paranoia/
+
+
+3. Compile soundKonverter
+=========================
+
+In order to compile soundKonverter, you need:
+- taglib-devel 1.4.0 (libtaglib-devel on mandriva)
+- cdparanoia (libcdda-devel on mandriva, cdparanoia-devel on fedora)
+
+On some operating systems, the cdda check (cdparanoia) in ./configure may fail.
+This is because sometimes the header files are at another location (eg. /usr/include/cdda instead of /usr/include on ark linux).
+In this case remove the cdparanoia check from the configure.in.in file.
+
+
+4. Known bugs
+=============
+
+- The options tabs get out of sync in some very rare cases
+- taglib check in ./configure may fail
+
+Backends that's output cant't be read:
+- The progress of some backends can't be read properly
+
+A big change is that soundKonverter now uses mime types.
+If you find problems, please tell me about it.
+
+
+Thanks to all Open Source programmers for their apps that I used to get some code.
+Especially Kaffeine and Amarok.
+
+Have a lot of fun.
+
+Please send bug reports directly to hessijames@gmail.com
+