Freemore Audio Video Suite Is Your One Stop Shop For Media Editing & Conversion

There are countless Audio and video conversion tools out there but with all the available options, it may get fairly tough to look for the right one at the right time. Even if you find the one that meets your requirements, odds are that it would be either be paid or in case of being free, have either way too many configuration options making it confusing to use, or offer too little control at what it does. Freemore Audio Video Suite takes care of this nuisance by amalgamating a number of different multimedia tools into a single freemium package that's easy enough to use for the average user while decently powerful enough for power users. It’s a compendium of various frequently used audio, video and document converters and editors that you would otherwise have to download separately when required. The suite includes audio editor, sound recorder, ringtone maker, MP3 cutter and joiner, audio and video converter, DVD burner, image and PDF converter, and the list doesn't stop here. It’s rare that you find such a huge collection of distinct apps in free software but Freemore not only delivers it; it delivers it exceptionally well. Read More

Format Converter X Brings Simple Media Conversion To Windows 8 And RT

Modern UI is what gives Windows 8 its legs. The latest OS looks and feels closer to its mobile counterpart, thanks to its touchscreen-friendly interface. We have covered plentiful Windows Store apps, catering for almost every category, but one particular kind of application that we were yet to come across was a media converter, until we came across Format Converter X. Generally, people who spend a lot of time converting audio video files would rather look for powerful solutions, like Format Factory or HandBrake. Nonetheless, for Windows 8 RT users or traditionalists, Format Converter X can lend a helping hand. The app’s design remains closer to Windows 8’s Metro-style formula. It doesn’t really give much of a choice in terms of output format selection, but it does accept quite a few files types as input, such as MOV, MPEG, WAV, M4V, MP4, AAC, WMV, PCM and WMA. The output selection stays limited to MP4, MP3, WMV, WMA and AAC. Read More

FlicFlac: Lightweight And Super Speedy Audio Converter

As technology convergence takes place rapidly, file conversion is becoming more and more essential for users relying on smartphones, tablets, PCs and other handheld devices. Often you end up with limited rights barring you from installations in places like your office. In the meantime, you find a track that must be admitted to your playlist in your MP3 player or phone, immediately. In situations like these, FlicFlac guides you to the solution. It doesn’t require any installation, downloads instantly and operates easily. Moreover, it supports FLAC, WAV, MP3, OGG and APE formats with custom bit-rates and quality. A simple user interface supporting drag-and-drop and audio file selection for conversion equips you with all the necessary resources required to fulfill your needs with a click. Read More

LameXP – Audio Encoder: Powerful, Feature-Rich Audio Converter For Windows

Although MP3 is one of the most widely used audio file formats, sometimes we need to convert audio files into other formats to enhance audio quality and reduce file size. The audio file formats, including MP3, AAC, MP4, FLAC, OGG, WAV etc, all offer a different audio quality and size combination, and it's up to the user to select which file format they are most attracted to. This is where audio converters and encoders jump in, providing an easy solution for users to convert between different audio file formats. LameXP – Audio Encoder is an open source application that lets you convert audio files between a wide range of audio formats. It basically provides a GUI for different audio encoders, and packs all supported encoders and audio CODECs in one installation package. You can quickly convert audio files in batch and set the output audio quality based on compression. However, advance users will also be pleased by the program, as there’s a separate Advanced Options tab sporting a number of different settings that can be tweaked to create the perfect output. More details inside. Read More

FreeVimager: View, Edit & Convert Images, Audio & Video, All In One Place

Not stylish but certainly usable to a good degree; these words just about sum up FreeVimager. FreeVimager is a 3-in-1 application that can display, edit and convert images, videos and audio files. It’s basically a viewer and editor geared towards camera related applications. It supports BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF (both still and animated), TIFF, PCX and EMF image extensions; for audio it supports AIF, WAV, MP3, WMA, AU, MID and CDA file extensions, and AVI files for video as well as ZIP files for archiving.

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Easily Merge Or Convert Audiobooks & Podcasts With Audio Convert Merge Free

In the past, we have covered various media converters that allow you to convert audio and music files between various formats, but Audio Convert Merge Free is one such solution that, along with audio conversion, also lets you join audio files and generate the output in most commonly used audio formats such as MP3, WMA, WAV and OGG. This utility is specifically designed by keeping audiobooks and podcasts in mind, as it can help merge various chapters of an audiobook into a single audio file. The minimalistic UI of the tool gives you a sufficient number of configuration options to set precise audio quality before starting the audio conversion or audio file joining process. According to the developers, the tool performs the convert or merge operation without compromising on the audio quality. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

Moo0 AudioTypeConverter: Convert Audio Files Between 33 Audio Formats

Moo0 AudioTypeConverter is an efficient audio converter that supports conversion for 33 audio formats. It is quite easy to use, and will be found useful even by users who do not have much knowledge of complex audio conversion parameters, such as bitrates. Moo0 AudioTypeConverter supports conversion via simple drag and drop, and also provides advanced configuration options, which can be used by advanced users to adjust the conversion of audio files. The supported audio formats include 3GP, AMR, AU, FLAC, M4A, MOV, MP2, MP3, MP4, OGG, PCM and many more. Read More

Vox Audio Player: Apply Sound Effects & EQ Settings To Songs [Mac]

If you’re an avid music listener and looking for an easy to use, visually appealing and free music player for Mac OS X, Vox could serve your needs. It’s a miniscule, yet powerful music player that supports a wide range of audio formats including MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, Apple Lossless, AIFF, FLAC, WAV, IT, MOD and more. Besides having a drop-dead UI, it contains numerous sound effects for music enthusiasts who love to tweak the quality of sound as per their taste. What makes it different from other music apps such as previously covered Enqueue and Cog is its ability to play all widely known audio formats, export audio tracks with enabled effects to AAC, WAV & Apple Lossless format, playback control and playlist navigation from menu bar. Additionally, the application is highly configurable in terms of sound qualities, audio channels and stereo left/right pan settings, volume limit, playback effects and modes. Read More

Hamster Free Audio Converter: Convert Audio Files According To Device

Hamster Free Audio Converter is an audio converter that supports a large range of presets for numerous devices and audio formats. These include widely-used audio formats, such as AIFF, OGG, WMA, MP3, MP2, AC3, AMR, FLAC, WAV, ACC, VOC, RM, as well as devices such as iPod, iPhone, iPad, Archos, Zune, iRiver, Sony, Nokia, HTC and others. Hamster Audio Convert comes with a sleek and stylish interface, and the reliable name of Hamster, the developers of Hamster Video Converter and Hamster Zip Archive. Hit the jump to read on. Read More

Helium Music Manager Is A Comprehensive Music Library Organizer

Listening to music helps one relax. Even though, there are many online services that allow you to listen to music, many people still like to download and keep their favorite songs in their computer. Helium Music Manager is an all-in-one music manager for Windows which includes a wide range of features, such as audio conversion, audio CD ripping, playlist sorting, and meta tag editing. The application has the ability to auto-organize your music collection by tags including Album, Rating, Artist, Release Year and so on. Like MediaMonkey's auto playlist creator, it includes Mood and Situation playlists, which filter tracks by different attributes. Moreover, the application lets you easily edit ID3 V1 and V2 tags, burn music to CDs/DVDs, manage album art covers, and repair truncated MP3 files. Read More

Rename, Edit Metadata & Convert Media Files With Media File Manipulator

Every media converter boasts its own set of features to make it stand apart from the pack. Today, we have one such application for you that might come in handy. Media File Manipulator is the one we are talking about. It is an open source application to edit metadata, rename files and to convert taglib-sharp supported audio and video files. It allows users to edit file name to metadata and metadata to file name, as well as to batch convert audio files from MP3, OGG, FLAC, ALAC and AAC presets. Videos files can also be converted to iPod and iPhone format. Hence, the primary features of Media File Manipulator include renaming media files, setting custom media metadata (ID3 tags etc), converting videos to iPod and iPhone format and to encode audio files. While one can achieve iPod and iPhone conversion by a number of video conversion tools such as VidCoder (uses Handbrake) and Hamster Video Converter, ID3 metadata editing is what makes Media File Manipulator a useful application. Read More

Convert And Analyze Audio Files For Errors With Helium Audio Converter

Helium Audio Converter is a feature rich audio converter with the ability to analyze damaged files. What makes it different from common audio converters is it’s powerful inspection tool which can be used to analyze Mp3 and Flac files before converting them. You can also set options to specify how conflicting file names should be managed. For instance, it can be specified if source files should be deleted after conversion and whether a warning should be given when converting from an inferior to a better format.  The supported conversion formats include, Mp3, Mp4, MPC, WAV, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, M4A, AAC and Flac. Read More

Convert And Extract Audio From Video Files With Gnac [Linux]

Gnac is a Linux based audio converter which can encode files between Ogg, Flac, Mp3, SPX, WAV, and Mp4 formats. What makes Gnac quite useful as compared to other audio converters out there is, that it can also extract audio from videos. This attribute can be quite useful for editors who often require extracting audio streams from videos. Although this can be done with advanced editing software, however, it can be a bit lethargic to do so on video editing software. Read More

Convert Or Extract Audio Quickly With NV Audio Converter

NV Audio Converter is an audio converter which converts audio files between several audio formats and extracts audio from a video source. It is quite simple to use and supports batch conversion, with support for commonly used audio formats such as MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, FLAC, AAC, MP4, AMR, M4A, AC3 and PCM. What makes NV Audio Converter quite useful is that it converts audio files quicker than most software of it’s kind. It also supports more formats than other audio converts like Music Converter. With NV Audio Converter, you can convert 3-4 files (8 minute long) in just a matter of thirty seconds. Read More

xAct Is Feature-Rich Audio Toolkit For Mac

Want a tool which can handle a wide range of audio file formats to perform encoding and decoding operations with all the variations involved? xAct might be the best toolkit you could pick up. It an opensource, multi-purpose tool for Mac which presents a simple GUI for popular Unix-based applications including, Shorten, shntool, monkey’s audio compressor, flac, cdda2wav while using the powers of LAME, AtomicParsley, TagLib and mp4v2. If you’ve been using 3 separate applications on your Mac to encode & decode, merge/split, and to tag audio files, you should try out xAct, since it can fulfill your audio files manipulation needs under one window. Read More

GOM Encoder Is All Purpose Video Converter From Creators Of GOM Player

We’ve covered some really good video conversion applications over the years, Miro converter and Freemake Video Converter, just to name a few. While the list of well performing video conversion programs can be exhaustive, GOM Encoder is relatively a new one in town. From the makers of the famous GOM Player, this application takes the prize in its extensive (and I mean it literally) preset support, with built-in, ready to be used settings for almost any device you can think of. Read More

fre:ac – Super Fast Free Audio Converter And Encoder

fre:ac is a feature-rich portable audio converter & ripper that use multi-core optimized encoders to provide blazing fast conversions. The application offers on the fly encoding while some generic conversion options are available to convert and create playlists. Despite being merely a converter, it lets you play the selected audio file and edit respective ID3 V1 & V2 meta tags information. The application working is based on creating a job list, the jobs can be further handled in numerous ways, you can either import song list from CD/DVD to rip, select files from local drive and start conversion, or simply feed it your playlist to convert all the songs in one go. It supports a long list of audio file formats, such as, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, MP4/M4A, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats. Read More

Free Make Video Converter Is Brilliant Eye-Candy Advanced Video Converter

The software arena is overwhelmed with hundreds of awesome media converters. Every time we come across a brilliant media converter, we can't wait to test out for you. Amongst many media converters, Freemake Video Converter is another powerful and absolute media converting tool catering both audio & video conversions. It sports most eminent video formats such as; AVI, MP4, WMV, and 3GP. It has an ability to burn video to DVD disc on-the-fly. The long list of famous audio formats is also supported to instantly convert into MP3 format. The shining part is that, you can specify an image set to convert into video format and easily upload a converted video file to your YouTube account. Read More

Music Converter Converts Audio Between Popular Formats

Music converters are plenty, and many good ones that are free as well, so here the competition comes down to ease of use balanced with feature requirement. There are many popular converters that support a huge format range but let’s face it: most of the times, an average user doesn’t need any of those except the most popular ones. A plethora of settings might also boggle down the average Joe. Hence simplicity also takes the prize. Read More

Free Video To Audio Converter

X2X Free Audio Converter, as the name implies, is a free audio converter that can extract audio from multiple video formats, such as, AVI, MPEG, MOV, MP4, RM, RMVB, ASF, QT, 3GP, 3G2, AMV, FLV, and many more. There are quite some tools which can convert videos into mp3 audio but this application takes it further ahead by giving users the choice of selecting the audio format to convert into. Read More