Audio - Conversion (16)

Pazera Free Audio Extractor takes the audio from most major video files without loss of sound quality or converts them to a variety of common audio formats. The program can also behave as a simple conversion tool from one audio format to another (e.g. AAC to MP3).

Some supported formats include (audio) MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, M4A, FLAC, OGG, WAV, ALAC, WavPack, AIFF; (video) AVI, FLV, MP4, MPG, MOV, RM, 3GP, WMV, VOB, MKV, WebM and OGV.

Note: By default, the program will extract/convert to MP3. Select "Try extract original audio stream" to avoid re-encoding, which is faster but may result in a format that some devices can't read. The program has a number of predefined settings (profiles) specially designed for novice users, but you can also customize audio encoding and output parameters.

File Blender is a simple drag-and-drop file media file conversion tool to quickly and simply change basic aspects of files including format, with basic quality and effects that average users will need for daily use. Can modify a long list of image, audio, and video formats, as well as split/combine PDF/TIFF files.

The program even includes optional encryption component and options to cleanup/obfuscate CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.

fre:ac (pronounced "freak") is a feature-rich audio tool set featuring audio encoding and conversion, CD ripper, playlist and metadata editor. The program supports most popular audio formats such as MP3, M4A, WMA, OGG and FLAC, as well as support for a long list of additional converters such as Quicktime and Shorten. For CDs, the program supports reliable conversion (CD Paranoia), online databases (CDDB/GNUdb) and CDText, automatically writing song information metadata. The program is optimized for multi-core systems, making conversions as fast as possible.

Cross-platform (Mac, Linux, FreeBSD). Available in many world languages. Alternatively, fre:ac Portable automatically adjusts paths.

oggdropXPd is a simple, drag-and-drop encoder and decoder that converts WAV files to the open "Ogg Vorbis" format or visa-versa. The program includes auto-tagging, renaming of encoded files, setting of advanced encoder parameters, use of VorbisGain tags on decode, playlist (.m3u) creation, and others. Encoding options can be configured by right-clicking on the program window.

It will also uncompress Ogg Vorbis into WAV files. The program can encode from Monkey's Audio (APE), FLAC, LPAC, OptimFROG (OFR) but requires extracting the various DLLs (see website) to the application folder.

CUETools helps ensure an album image is preserved accurately by managing lossless audio and CUE sheet format conversion. Since many applications don't keep track of preserving gaps and CUE sheet contents during conversion, or don't support all possible CUE sheet styles, CUETools preserves both with no loss in quality.

CUETools includes CUERipper, an extremely powerful yet easy-to-use CD ripping program, with features like lossless and lossy encoding options, EAC style logs, automatic metadata look-up and AccurateRip verification.

TEncoder is a video and audio tool with conversion, DVD ripping and website downloading features. The converter includes the ability to select between multiple audio and subtitle tracks, extract audio/video content from a file, or edit subtitle and audio delays. Subtitles with same name as the video can be hard-coded into video. The download tool includes a variety of available formats, batch download capability, audio only downloads and on-completion conversion.

Includes multi-threaded optimizations for simultaneous encoding and supports skins to change the program look and feel. Output video codecs include: MP1, MP2, Xvid, Mpeg4, H264, FLV, WMV, VP8 and more; audio codecs: MP3, WAV, Opus, OGG, AC3 and more. The program uses a variety of different open source tools including MEncoder, MPlayer, youtube-dl and FFMpeg.

Alternatively, X-TEncoder is also available.

QWinFF can convert audio and video files into other formats. It includes a rich set of presets and allows advanced users to adjust conversion parameters like bitrate and sample rate in detail. The program is an interface for the powerful, command-line FFmpeg.

Note that you can add other media formats for conversion in the presets.xml file, including images and other formats that FFmpeg can handle.

FlicFlac is an utility for converting WAV, FLAC, MP3, OGG and APE files to any of the other formats. The program supports the drag-and-drop of files onto the FlicFlac interface to whatever format is selected (e.g. "to WAV"). Files are saved by default to the same directory as the source file.

More advanced configuration available by editing the FlicFlac.ini file.

Written in AutoHotkey.

XMedia Recode is an audio/video converter for most popular formats and includes handy profiles for popular mobile/tablet devices such as iPod, iPhone, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Zune, PSP, Blackberry, LG etc. These profiles include file format, screen size and other details chosen specifically for a given player.

Support many formats.

Note: Back when FFMPEG's hall of shame for licensing issues still existed, this program was a member there due to this issue.