Freemake Audio Converter - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Freemake Audio Converter is a free audio conversion utility developed by Ellora Assets Corporation. The program is used to convert across different audio formats, merge audio files, extract audio from video files. Fremake Audio Converter 1.0.0 does not support CD burning

Optical disc authoring

Optical disc authoring, including DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring , is the process of assembling source material—video, audio or other data—into the proper logical volume format to then be recorded onto an optical disc .-Process:To burn an optical disc, one usually first creates an...

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Freemake Audio Converter accepts over 40 audio file formats such as MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

, WMA

WMA

WMA may refer to:- Organizations :*Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association, a nonprofit trade association for owners of manufactured home communities in California*Western Marble Arch, a synagogue in central London...

, WAV

WAV

Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs...

, FLAC

FLAC

FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost...

, AAC

AAC

AAC refers to Advanced Audio Coding, an audio compression format successor to the MP3 format.AAC may also refer to:-Aviation:* AAC, IATA airport code for El Arish International Airport, Egypt...

, M4A, OGG

OGG

Ogg may refer to:*Nanny Ogg, a character in the Discworld series of books*Ogg, a multimedia container file format, in computing*Ogg Vorbis, the Vorbis free software/open source audio codec, commonly used with the Ogg container...

, AMR

AMR

-Companies:* AMR , a UK manufacturer of high-end audio systems* AMR Corporation, parent company of American Airlines* American Medical Response, a private ambulance operator* Arcata and Mad River Railroad...

, AC3, AIFF

AIFF

Audio Interchange File Format is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices...

, M4R. The freeware

Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...

converts audio to MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

, WMA

WMA

, WAV

WAV

Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs...

, FLAC

FLAC

FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost...

, AAC

AAC

AAC refers to Advanced Audio Coding, an audio compression format successor to the MP3 format.AAC may also refer to:-Aviation:* AAC, IATA airport code for El Arish International Airport, Egypt...

, M4A, OGG

OGG

, and prepares files for playback on various portable media players, such as Zune

Zune

Zune is a digital media brand owned by Microsoft which includes a line of portable media players, a digital media player software for Windows machines, a music subscription service known as a 'Zune Music Pass', music and video streaming for the Xbox 360 via the Zune Software, music, TV and movie...

, Coby

Coby

Coby Hansen is a fictional human character who pilots the Cobybot in the Transformers: Cybertron anime series. The character has been used in the television series, comic book series, and collection of children's toys manufactured by Takara Tomy in conjunction with Hasbro...

, SanDisc, Sansa, iRiver

Iriver

iriver is a consumer electronics company headquartered in South Korea and widely known for its digital audio players and other portable media devices....

, Walkman

Walkman

Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette, and now used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of Sony Ericsson mobile phones...

, Archos

Archos

Archos is a French consumer electronics company that was established in 1988 by Henri Crohas. Archos manufactures portable media players and portable data storage devices. The name is an anagram of Crohas' last name, and it is also Greek for 'master'...

, GoGear.

The audio converter turns songs into M4A and M4R audio file formats for iPad

IPad

The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...

, iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

, iPod

IPod

iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...

and automatically adds converted files into the iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

library.

Freemake Audio Converter features batch audio conversion mode to convert multiple audio files simultaneously. The audio conversion program combines several audio files info a single file.

The freeware

Freeware

has several ready-made presets for each supported output file format and the ability to create a custom preset with the adjustment of a bitrate

Bitrate

In telecommunications and computing, bit rate is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time....

, audio channels and sample rate of an output audio. The program displays output audio file duration according to the currently selected parameters.

The utility is capable of extracting the audio soundtrack from different video formats: DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

, MP4, AVI

Avi

AVI may refer to:* Avi , the pen name of children's author Edward Irving Wortis* Audio Video Interleave, a multimedia container format and file type* AVI BioPharma, a biopharmaceutical company* AVI Foodsystems, a food service company...

, MPEG, H.264, MKV

MKV

MKV may stand for:* Matroska, a video and audio container format* Mittelschüler-Kartellverband* Multiple Kill Vehicle...

, DIVX

DIVX

DIVX was an unsuccessful attempt by Circuit City and the entertainment law firm Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca and Fischer to create an alternative to video rental in the United States.-Format:...

, MOV

MOV

MOV may refer to:* MOV , a mnemonic for the copying of data from one location to another in the X86 assembly language* .mov, filename extension for the QuickTime multimedia file format...

, WMV, VOB

VOB

A VOB file is a container format in DVD-Video media. VOB can contain video, audio, subtitle, menu and navigation contents multiplexed together into a stream form. VOB is based on the MPEG program stream format, but with additional limitations and specifications in the private streams...

, 3GP

3GP

3GP is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones....

, RM

RM may refer to:-People and titles:* Radioman, a former rank of the U.S. Navy* Resident Magistrate* Returned Missionary, a phrase used by Mormons to refer to young men and women who have served as full-time missionaries...

, QT

- Units and measurements :* Quart, a measure of volume in traditional systems of units* Quarter, a unit of mass in Imperial units, equal to 2 stones or a quarter of a long hundredweight; one quarter = 12.70058636 kg* QT interval, a measurement used in cardiology...

, FLV

FLV

Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player versions 6–11. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are two different video file formats known as Flash Video: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files...

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The user interface of Freemake Audio Converter is based on Windows Presentation Foundation

Windows Presentation Foundation

Developed by Microsoft, the Windows Presentation Foundation is a computer-software graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications. WPF, previously known as "Avalon", was initially released as part of .NET Framework 3.0. Rather than relying on the older GDI...

technology.

License controversy

FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line...

developers claim that Freemake is using copyrighted software from the FFmpeg project without offering source code and therefore violating the GPL.

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