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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Xilisoft Audio Converter provides an easy and complete way to convert between all of the popular audio formats, such as MP3, WAV, WMA, MP4, M4A, MP2, VQF, APE, OGG, AAC and FLAC.

One of the benefits is that the audio converter supports converting m4a to mp3, mp4 to mp3. The audio converter supports ID3 tag, all ID3 tags in the original files will be reserved after the conversion. In addition, you also can convert video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF to all popular audio files with Xilisoft Audio Converter. All conversion processes are very easy to handle and fast.

Features:

• Convert between MP3, M4A, WAV, WMA, MP4, MP2, VQF, APE, OGG, AAC and FLAC
• Convert AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF to MP3, WAV, WMA, MP4, M4A, MP2, VQF, APE, OGG, AAC and FLAC
• Support batch conversion
• Copy ID3 tag between audio formats (reserve ID3 tag during conversion)
• When converting to MP3, bitrate, VBR or CBR, stereo or mono are selectable
• You can select the compression method, sample rate, bitrate, stereo or mono when converting to WAV
• Allow users to select whether delete the original files

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AudiMovie is a shareware that enables users to rip sound to mp3 files from VCD/DVD movie and then burn these audio files to cd tracks. The program features selecting audio quality and volume, selecting audio language stream/track, Dolby Surround/AC3/DTS, PAL/NTSC, customization of output audio resolution. You can preview and play movies momentarily. It is used the last video technology optimized for Intel and AMD. Default settings are provided for beginner users, so you can get started easily. Current version can select sound tracks from interface freely and ripping movie audio to mp3s freely.

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Flash Wav To Mp3 Converter is a powerful wav to mp3 converter with support of batch conversion. It employs a nice & clean interface. It supports drag & drop from windows explorer. Many advanced options are included to optimize the sound quality or file size of the generated mp3 files. The options include fixed-bitrate, Variable Bitrate (VBR), noise shaping, ID3 tags, etc.

Features:

• Fully automatic batch conversion from wav to mp3 with clear progress indicator
• Drag & drop wav files from windows explorer.
• Both fixed bit rate and variable bit rate encoding
• High quality noise shaping in mp3 encoding
• Support Mono/Stereo/Joint Stereo/Mid-Side Stereo mode
• Support user-defined ID-3 tags in encoded mp3 file

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Audio Converter Pro can convert audio files between MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG music formats. With Audio Converter Pro you can get most work done automatically just with one click. Its interface supports both drag & drop and shell operation of Windows Explorer. As an audio converter, Audio Converter Pro gives you a great deal of control over you music files. For example, you can change bit rate, edit ID3 tags, and rip VBR MP3s.

If necessary, Audio Converter Pro can delete all source files automatically after converting. As more, you can convert many files in batches regardless of their source formats and target formats.

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Convenient, powerful, and highly configurable Windows application for converting among nearly all conceivable multimedia formats. Tightly integrated with the Windows interface, ContextConvert Pro provides immediate conversion capability from any Windows context (right-click) menu. Simply right-click on any audio, image, or video file, and you can immediately convert it to any other supported format.

You can predefine the folder that will contain your converted files, allowing you to complete your file conversions with a single click. Comprehensive settings and properties are available for complete output control, including audio frequency, bitrate, and channels; AVI codecs; MPEG types (MPEG-1 standard, MPEG-1 with VCD extensions, MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-2 with Super VCD extensions, and MPEG-2 with DVD extensions), WMV profile, image quality, and image color depth.

Multi-page image conversion support is extensive. You can convert from one multi-page format to another, extract multi-page images and create a set of individual files, grab the first page only of a multi-page file, or build a new multi-page file from selected images.

Two-way conversions are supported among Audio CD Tracks (CDA), MP3, WMA, OGG, and WAV. Conversion from VOX, RAW, MPC, G.726, G.723, G.721, AIFF, and AU to any of the above mentioned formats is also supported. For video, conversions between AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and ASF are provided.

Images can be converted in the following formats: ACS, AFP, ANI, AWD, BMP, CAL, CGM, CIN, CLP, CMP, CMX, CRW, CUR, CUT, DCR, DCS, DGN, DIB, DjVu, DRW, DWF, DWG, DXF, ECW, EMF, EPS, EXIF, FAX, FITS, FPX, GBR, GEM, GIF, ICA, ICO, IFF, IMG, ITG, J2K, JBIG, JIF, JPG, JTF, KDC, LMA, LBM, MAC, MDA, MSP, PBM, PCD, PCL, PCT, PCX, PDF, PGM, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSD, PSP, PLT, PTK, RAS, SCT, SFF, SGI, SHP, SID, SMP, SUN, SVG, TIFF, TGA, XBM, XPM, WMZ, and more!

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AudioConvert is a professional solution for converting, grabbing, transforming and recording all types of audio files. The interface is uncluttered and easy to use. AudioConvert is well documented and suitable for beginners and advanced users alike. The easy to use interface means business and is as clear as could be which, when accompanied by a comprehensive system of help should ensure this advanced audio package is suitable for everyone from beginners to experienced audiophiles!

It offers a gob smacking number of audio features. Audio format conversion, for example MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis encoding, CD-ripping, recording, tagging - even advanced transformation and effects editing is included.

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Kingdia CD Extractor is a powerful and easy CD ripper application for converting digital audio tracks directly from compact discs to audio formats MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, VQF, APE, etc.

Kingdia CD Extractor supports CDDB, letting you can connect to any remote database to get the album information about your CDs automatically. You don't have to change the artist, title and genre for each song manually. When converting to MP3 or Ogg formats all these information will be wrote to the ID3 tags of the destination files.

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AudioSlimmer is an easy-to-use audio converter, which can be used to convert your MP3s or WAVs into the revolutionary Windows Media Audio 8 format. It can also be used to decode MP3 to WAVs, to play music and to manage your files. AudioSlimmer provides multiple file conversion and enables to extract specified sections of audio files.

The application includes an advanced ID3 tag editor for MP3 and WMA files and also provides functions for automatic file renaming using the ID3Tag information. AudioSlimmer produces WMA files, encoded using the latest Windows Media Audio 8 codec, that provides CD quality audio at half the size of MP3. WMA 8 encoding captures more of the original WAV audio file than MP3 or Real Audio 8.

Key features of the app:

• Conversion of MP3 files to Windows Media Audio8 format

• Conversion of WAV files to Windows Media Audio8 format

• Decoding of MP3 files to WAV files

• Automatic detection/manual setting of audio quality

• Automatic calculation of resulting file size, depending on audio quality

• Conversion of the entire file

• Conversion only for a specified section

• Embedded enhanced player for MP3, WAV and WMA

• ID3Tag editor, reads Id3v1 and ID3v2 tag, saves to ID3v1 and WMA8

• Automatic file rename from ID3Tag information

• List of more recently used folders

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