Often called a Swiss army knife of Audio, dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC) is able to many things at once. Not limited to just converting audio formats it can also rip CDs, normalize audio and edit tags. Here is a full list of its features:

• Rip digitally sound from Audio CDs and store in a multitude of formats, dMC is the Fastest CD Ripper and now AccurateRip Compatible.
• Convert from one format to another, just about every audio type is supported: mp3, mp4, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC and many others [Codec downloads], whilst preserving ID Tags.
• Volume Normalize audio files.
• Windows Explorer Integration - right click Convert To & popup useful info on audio files.
• ID tag editing [Power Pack Option].
• Record from LPs or anything.
• Fully compatible with Windows 95/98/ME NT4/2000, Windows XP and Linux (using Wine).

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With a plethora of portable music players around and the different type of audio file formats they each play, you're bound to have to convert your tracks every now and then. Switch has the advantage of being free and allowing you to quickly batch convert audio tracks. We were impressed by the number of output formats, more than a dozen, with all the common file types like mp3, wma or aac available. You'll also be able to set the bitrate, once again choosing from more than a dozen options and more importantly with a choice of variable or constant bitrate. Switch also features an error protection feature to enhance your recordings.

The toolbox feature is supposed to help you perform any audio task, but all it really does is automatically install extra software from the developer. We suggest using it only if you know precisely what you want to do and are ready to install a new application. Switch also has a feature to add CD album details from the freeDB database. Even though we tried it on a few well known tracks, it didn't really work.

Despite these drawbacks, Switch is a speedy audio converter with many features.

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Even if you’re extremely careful about downloading only music which is compatible with your player, there comes a moment when you need to convert audio files from one format to another. And if you have never used this kind of software before, you may feel a little bit lost at the beginning: which program should I use? Will it have support for this or that?

Free MP3 WMA Converter is probably one of the best answers one could give to these questions. In spite of being quite plain both in aspect and functionalities, this little app does its job and does it well. So don’t let yourself be fooled by its simplicity and spare us five minutes to take a deeper look.

The process of installing Free MP3 WMA Converter follows the standard steps and includes the possibility of also installing Pando, a free tool to share large files through e-mail. But you can simply skip that point if you’re not interested in it.

Once installed on your system, the program allows you to choose the interface language, a nice feature for non-English speakers. However, it wouldn’t be really necessary, as Free MP3 WMA Converter is incredibly simple to use: first, select the files you want to convert; then, choose the target format; finally, click on the “Convert” button. Easy as pie! Plus, the conversion itself is surprisingly fast. The program even displays a neat progress bar so that you can control the whole process in detail.

If there is a drawback to Free MP3 WMA Converter, it’s the range of supported formats. Only six of them (AAC, APE, MP3, Ogg, WAV and WMA) but at least they’re the most used and popular ones. Besides, the program features separate conversion options for each one of them, so you can always achieve the quality of sound you wanted. Another thing this program lacks is having a wider choice of options, such as volume normalization, a built-in tag editor or other similar extra functions that can be found in most conversion tools.

In short, if you’re looking for an audio file converter and don’t know where to begin, just give Free MP3 WMA Converter a chance. It may suit your needs, as long as they’re simple enough.

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Designed to convert audio files among MP3, WAV, OGG, and WMA formats, this program's welcoming interface and customization options make it a quality choice. The main window has a clean design and it features large icons for almost every function you'll need, so we doubt you'll ever have to dig through the main menu. As an audio converter, 4Musics gives you a great deal of control over your files. For example, you can change the bit rate, edit ID3 tags, and rip VBR MP3s. In our tests, the program quickly and adeptly converted our MP3s to several other file types and didn't seem to affect our PC's performance. We can definitely recommend this program for anyone who needs an easy and flexible way to convert digital audio tracks

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Power MP3 WMA Converter is a professional audio conversion tool. With its fast and convenient conversion among mp3, wma, wav, ogg, ape, asf(audio part), wmv(udio part) and CD audio can be achieved. By using high quality encoder and decoder, the minimum sound quality loss during converting can be ensured. And the simple and friendly interface make it easy to use.

Power MP3 WMA Converter can burn mp3, wma, wav, ogg, ape, asf (audio part), wmv(udio part) files to cd directly, and it can also rip CD into one of the format directly.
Besides conversion, its other useful functions are edit of tag information, auto renaming with tag information, and so on.

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For those of us whose sights are trained on a computer screen all day long, reading in-depth articles on our favourite blogs or sifting through long emails is the last thing we want to do at the end of a day at the office. Imagine our delight then when we came across a program that promised to read all this text for us as we give our eyes a well-earned rest.

The beauty of TextAloud is that it not only reads out anything you copy and paste into the voice window but also allows you to save the resulting speech as an audio file. Effectively this means you can transform any web page, email or text document into a podcast to download to your MP3 player and listen to at your leisure. File sizes are kept to a minimum so it's possible to save entire novels as an audio file of less than 1Mb.

Having tried similar text-to-voice applications before, we were sceptical about how monotone the speech would sound. Sure enough, the one preset voice in the free download sounds like the boring brother of HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey and before too long you want to rip your earphones out to escape his ceaseless drone. Although you can change the pitch and speed of the voice, this proves no less robotic.

Before we reached for our reading glasses again we thought we'd try an upgrade to the full version of TextAloud, which incorporates the use of AT&T's Natural Voice technology as an alternative to the free Microsoft voice tones. With a wide range of different voices to choose from including, UK English, Indian English, and Spanish, the speech is seamless and almost as convincing as having someone sitting next to you. We particularly enjoyed being able to download a 150-page book from the net then sitting on the train listening to the dulcet tones of a softly-spoken English lady recite the tale to us.

The novelty of a text-to speech system is initially amusing but the voice in the freeware version soon becomes irritating. However, paying for the upgrade to more natural voices turns the application into a genuinely useful piece of kit that frees your eyes from the shackles of your computer screen.

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Free WMA MP3 Converter transforms annoying WMA audio files to Mp3 format so you can play them in iTunes. You’ll appreciate how easy it is to search for WMA files, select the bitrate, one of the 3 sample rates available and start converting. The whole process is fairly quick and is presented to you in a little pop up window, which can be minimized to tray. The tag editor is where you can add information such as title, artist or genre. You can batch convert as many files as you want. Once the operation is complete you can check file size and duration of the file and make sure the conversion has been successful.

The majority of audio file converters support all audio file types and can convert to dozens of audio formats in a large range of bitrates and sample rates. Free WMA MP3 Converter is only useful for one type of conversion. This program is great if you have loads of music files in the Windows Media format and are looking for a quick way of converting them to the more common MP3 format. If you’re looking for a versatile audio converter however you should turn to Xilisoft Audio Converter, Switch Free or AudioConvert. And Free WMA MP3 Converter only works one way, so if you’re looking to turn MP3s into WMA, check out Free MP3 WMA Converter.

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Audials One is designed as downloader and converter for music that, via it's subscription fee, allows you to download and copy music without fear of infringing copyright laws

The program tries to help you discover the kind of music you will like Simply select the music genre that you're into and click on "Start". The music is all copyright free because it has been recorded from over 15,000 internet radio stations that the program is affiliated to. If you don't find the kind of music you're looking for among the 100,000 artists listed in the MusicFinder database of regularly-played music, you can use the Audials One Internet meta-search engine to locate and download the MP3s you want. Whatsmore, the program comes bundled with a limited audio, video & DRM converter plus a simple CD & DVD burner to burn your favourite tracks. The converter is especially useful for recording music onto mobile devices with around 30 different formats supported. The aim to is to allow you to play your music, audio books and videos on mobile phones, MP3 players, MP4 players, PDAs, PSPs, auto radios and Apple iPods. In addition, there's direct access to podcasts from the community of listeners plus ID3 tagging options to organise your library.

This is a solid music program for those that want to download and share music legally although inevitably, the full subscription fee may put some people off.

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LP Recorder has been designed with one purpose in mind - to record vinyl LPs. Connect the tape or line output from your stereo to the line input of your soundcard, select the recording input, enter a filename and press the record button.

You can also record from your cassettes or tapes, CDs, radio, MiniDisc player - or anything else that you can connect to your soundcard's line-in input. Once you have the LP recording on your hard disk, use LP Ripper to automatically split it into separate tracks ready to burn to a CD or to create MP3 files to play on an Apple iPod or similar portable MP3 player.

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In these days of a thousand formats, it's essential that you have the ability to convert your audio into a range of different file types. Arial Audio Converter allows you to do exactly that, converting between formats including MP3, OGG, WMA, MP2 and WAV.

Key features:

• Support all popular audio formats
• Fast conversion speed
• Batch audio files conversion
• Supports ID3 tags
• Playback facilities for all popular music formats
• Drag-and-drop functionality

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AudioConverter Studio contains two powerful tools: easy-to-use Audio Converter from one sound format into the other and Audio CD Ripper. Program has a full support of MP3 tags (versions id3v1 and id3v2), WMA tags and OGG tags.

During conversion of a high-quality musical file into file with lower quality, tags are preserved. During the ripping of the Audio CD into MP3 files, OGG files or WMA files, track listings and album details will automatically be filled in because the program has CDDB support built in.

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This evaluation software is for personal and non-commercial use and is intended to demonstrate the MP3 Surround technology available at Fraunhofer IIS. MP3 Surround provides a multi-channel listening experience with a minimum of extra bitrate and maximum compatibility.

MP3 Surround supports high-quality multi-channel sound at bit rates comparable to those currently used to encode stereo MP3 material, resulting in files half the size of common compressed surround formats. At the same time, the new format offers complete backward compatibility to any existing MP3 software and hardware devices.

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Now you will never have to worry about scratching your LPs again. You will also be able to play your LP music in your car or any other CD player that can play recordable CDs! To record a vinyl LP to convert to a CD or MP3 Files you need to use a 'WAV file recorder' to store a WAV format file on your hard disk. Most general purpose WAV recorders are packed with functions. They tend to be complicated and time-consuming to configure and use.

LP Recorder has been designed with one purpose in mind - to record vinyl LPs. Connect the tape or line output from your stereo to the line input of your soundcard, select the recording input, enter a filename and press the record button. You can also record from your cassettes or tapes, radio, MiniDisc player - or anything else that you can connect to your soundcard's line-in input.

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Nitrous Voice Flux is a voice recognition and system control utility made by Nitrous Online. Voice Flux has been downloaded and used throughout the world for many different tasks; from simplifying day-to-day tasks to aiding the disabled in their computer use.

Voice Flux is designed to take commands and react accordingly, not to be a continuous dictation application for writing documents. These commands can range from simply opening a program, file, or website, to the more advanced scripting that allows the user to create complex instructions to automate tasks and improve their computer experience.

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Realize Software develops interactive speech software to enhance productivity and make computing easier by adding voice to complement, reduce or eliminate use of the keyboard and mouse.

Realize Voice is powerful and highly configurable software that gives you total control of your computer using your voice. It incorporates the very latest in speech recognition, speech synthesis and accessibility technologies from Microsoft.

It increases productivity by adding voice as another mode of input to your computer and can be configured to complement, reduce or even eliminate use of the computer keyboard and mouse. Virtually anyone can use it for everyday tasks such as browsing the web or sending email, including people with mobility impairments or repetitive stress injuries.

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Agent Reader is an Advanced Personal Assistant with Text-to-Speech, Macro Recorder, Ads/Pop-up Killer, and many useful functions not provided by Windows that increase your productivity in a significant way.

Agent Reader's text to speech reads everything copied to the clipboard from any application, the Macro Recorder automates repetitive typing tasks, the integrated ads/popup killer will close for you all the annoying windows while you browse and over 20 additional productivity utilities will make your computer experience much easier.

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Audio Conversion Wizard is "All to All" converter of digital audio formats with friendly Wizard-style interface, which helps you easily convert:

• WMA to MP3, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, WAV PCM
• WMA to WMA (resampling)
• MP3 to WMA 9, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, WAV PCM
• MP3 to MP3 (resampling)
• OGG Vorbis to WMA 9, MP3, FLAC, WAV PCM
• OGG Vorbis to OGG Vorbis
• FLAC to MP3, WMA 9, OGG Vorbis, WAV PCM

Friendly and self explanatory user interface allows you to convert your digital audio just after you have downloaded it from the web without wasting your time reading huge help files: all possible actions are described in detail on each Wizard's page.

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MP3Coder is a powerful full-featured WAV-to-MP3 encoder. The program maintains MPEG1 and MPEG2 formats, all constant and variable bitrates (8-320 bps). There are Presets for those who don't want to understand subtleties of MP3 formats. Convenient ID3v1 tag and file name editor is available. Use MP3Coder with ease by meanes of multilanguage interface and Help.

MP3Coder uses LAME as default MP3 encode engine. LAME is a freeware project which provides high compression speed and perfect sound quality.

Short features:

• WAV to MP3 encoding
• Supports MPEG1 and MPEG2 and all constant and variable bitrates (8-320)
• Supports ID3v1 tag (Artist/Title/Genre and so on)
• Filename editor
• Multi-language interface
• Presets

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Waver is a WAV/MP3 to WAV/MP3 converter that allows you to easily convert your WAV files from one codec to another. It also supports encoding of real MP3 files. You don't even need an MP3 codec to produce WAV encoded MP3 files. You can easily accomplish it with Waver. Another thing Waver can do is read MP3 files and either convert them to WAV or recompress them to MP3.

Basically, Waver can read and write both WAV and MP3 formats. That is why Waver is a WAV/MP3 to WAV/MP3 converter. What makes it different is that it allows batch processing using all available processors on your machine. Do you have a dual Windows NT or Windows 2000 machine? Do you have 2, 4 or more processors? Are you tired of having to to manually convert many files at once? It is the right time to start exploiting Waver.

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Charm Real Converter is a tool for converting AVI, MPEG, MP3, WAV and QuickTime files to Real Media files, and editing the RM file's property. It supports batch convertion. With a simple and very easy-to-use interface, and customizable settings, it is perfect for either novice or advanced content creators.

• Convert AVI to RM
• Convert MPEG-1 to RM
• Convert Mp2 to RM, Mp3 to RM
• Convert Wav to RM
• Convert Quick Time to RM
• Edit RM files message
• It's easy and fast
• Very user-friendly interface

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