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Convert video and audio, even adding subtitles and retoutching, with Hybrid

Multimedia converters are never enough: the more you have, the better you can handle your conversion needs! Hybrid is a package of utilities related with video conversion, a package you can safely ignore if you don’t consider yourself an “advanced” user, since its use is not that easy or obvious. Hybrid is able to convert […]

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Comparing nine free top audio converters to find the best one

I convert a lot of audio files, mainly from lossless formats to MP3, since if you know the best bit rate for MP3 files, audio quality between MP3 and lossless formats remains unnoticed — or hardly noticed, only in case of extremely fine or “reference” recordings. You can imagine that with so many free audio […]

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Free MP3 WMA Converter vs Efficient vs VSDC Free Audio Converter vs File Converter

I’d like to speak first about what I see first, which of course is the interface. The problem comparing these four free audio converters is that three of them are very similar, and the fourth one is invisible! File Converter (the ‘invisible’) is a shell extension, adding an option in the context menu to let […]

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Record live audio, convert, multi-track mix, filter, auto-split, with Audacity

Audacity is editor and recorder. It can record live audio, convert tapes and vinyl records into digital recordings or CDs, edit OGG Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together, change the speed or pitch of a recording. Features: Importing and exporting of WAV, AIFF, MP3 (via the LAME […]

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Best free audio converters, even specialized, for optimal sound quality

Fre:ac vs Freemake vs Xrecode vs MediaHuman vs Free Audio Converter. There exist a lot of free audio converters, and I’d like to help a little by comparing five very well known, including Xrecode, which is not free anymore, yet the last free version of it still works fine. Combine this review with Free MP3 […]

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Convert popular audio and video formats, even crop or normalize, with XMedia Recode

XMedia Recode is a free program that will convert several popular audio and video formats; it is mainly created for video jobs rather than audio. The program supports 3GP, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AAC, AC3, AMR, ASF, AVI, AVISynth, DVD, FLAC, FLV, H.261, H.263, H.264, M4A , M1V, M2V, M4V, Matroska (MKV), MMF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, TS, […]

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Play, Cut, Join, Crop, Convert audio and video, even speak text, with Media Cope

Media Cope is a free audio video player, cutter, joiner, converter, photo resizer and slideshow maker. It can play almost any audio and video file, cut, join and save it to the format of your choice. Media Cope will also let you crop / pad videos. The program contains a Speak Text tool, and a […]

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Record audio or convert text to speech, with FeyRecorder

FeyRecorder is a free audio utility that will carry out various sound tasks including: conversion from CD, tapes, DVDs, live concerts, TV sounds, online radio, video games and any other sound sources, into audio files that can be easily saved on the hard drive. FeyRecorder integrates also text-to-speech conversion with natural voices. Formats supported: MP3, […]

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Extract DVD multichannel audio for headphones, or convert it to stereo, with DVDtoHP

DVDtoHP is a free and powerful program that lets you extract multichannel audio from DVD movies, a format you can enjoy with headphones. It will also convert, if you prefer, multichannel audio to stereo. Note that the program can function also as just a converter from one format to another, e.g. from Flac to MP3, […]

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Convert video and audio between several formats, even with filters, using Shana Encoder

Shana is a free media Encoder that will let you perform several conversions, even with filters or embedding subtitles. Among the formats supported are AVI, MP4, MKV, 3GP, MOV, MPEG, WMV, and more. The interface is not exciting, but convenient and easy to use. To load files you can drag and drop them or use […]

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