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NCH also provide other free audio software which I've downloaded but not tried properly yet - Express Rip (ripping tracks from CD to WAV or MP3), Express Burn (to create audio or data CDs) and Wavepad audio editor (with support for a broad range of file types, like Switch has). This is just the thing for producing MP3s from the various AAC ringtones that came with my Nokia 7710 smartphone (the Gmail settings for which I've blogged about before).

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The features of the Plus version are accessible free for 14 days, and, the first time you try to convert to one of the Plus filetypes, you'll need to ensure you're connected to the Net and that your firewall will let switch.exe through to to download the plugins it needs for those filetypes. enable other software to convert files with Switch or to automate batch conversion. Trackname - Year' (or whatever), and use a command-line tool which can e.g. to a folder named 'Artist - Album - Genre', with filenames structured as 'Tracknumber.

The only other differences I can see is that with the Plus version you can also control how you convert CD tracks e.g. FLAC as well as the list above, or (with a plugin) into MSV and. The paid for Plus version can handle more esoteric filetypes (.DSS. And as mentioned earlier, it rips tracks from CD to a variety of sound formats too. If your existing music player can't handle certain filetypes like the open source OGG Vorbis, you can just add the file to Switch and play it there. There's even a Play button to hear files before you convert them. Granted, this software doesn't need to do a huge variety of things, but what it does it does superbly well. This is what freeware (indeed any software) should be like - intuitive and userfriendly even for beginners, yet with more advanced features for those who need them, readily accessible and not buried away behind incomprehensibly titled settings. I've tried out various free tools to convert sound files before, but nothing else I've found is as easy or handles so many filetypes for free. FAQ, support page, even a discussion forum. Plus they seem to provide decent support e.g. And they provide keyboard shortcuts too, yay! (I love keyboard shortcuts, myself, and for me they even make the difference between software being usable or not.) via the Encoder Settings button for the selected output file type (e.g. Yet power users are given decent control over some of the more detailed settings behind the scenes too, e.g. There's a Remove button to get rid of any files you've inadvertently added, before conversion. If you forget to select particular files in the list before you hit Convert, it just converts all the files in the list as is logical, instead of throwing up an error message as many less intelligently-written programs might do. Just add the files you want to convert (or even an entire folder), choose the output folder into which you want the converted files to be saved, choose the output format (e.g. The interface for this sound file conversion software is beautifully clean, simple and intuitive, and you can convert a whole bunch of files with different formats into the same new format in one go.

CDA (and yes, that means if you point it to a CD in your CD drive it can pick up tracks from there and convert them into MP3 etc too, so it's a basic CD ripper too)

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There is a pro version too, but the free version is pretty comprehensive.

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(Tip: it's a free download and is billed as being freeware, but seems to try to 'update' itself after a while, to a different version which expires! - so don't let it automatically update itself over the Net (stop it with your firewall if it tries to update or contact anything over the internet), and then it will stay as a free version.) I just discovered an excellent freeware converter for audio files: NCH's Switch.