Freeware universal audio and video batch transcoder

MediaCoder is a free universal media transcoder since 2005. It integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools in an elegant and transparent manner into an all-in-one transcoding solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, latest codecs and tools are updated added in constantly. MediaCoder intends to be the Swiss Army Knife for media transcoding in all time.

Features In Brief

* Converting between most popular audio and video formats

* Multi-threaded transcoding and job-level parallelization

* Transcoding with high performance and high quality

* Flexible control over transcoding parameters

* Simplified UI for popular mobile devices (PSP, iPhone/iPod etc)

* Fully standalone, no dependancy on system codecs/splitters

* Simultaneous Segmental Transcoding (in development)

Typical Applications

* Improving compression / reducing size for audio/video files

* Converting media content for playback on multimedia devices

* Converting media content for online publication or broadcasting

* Extracting audio track from video files

* Ripping audio/video discs

* Fixing corrupted or partial downloaded video files

Supported Fomats

* Lossy Audio:
MP3, Vorbis, LC-AAC, HE-AAC v1/v2, AC-3, MPEG Audio L2, MusePack, Speex, AMR, Windows Media Audio, ADPCM, mp3PRO*

* Lossless Audio:
FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, OptimFrog, ALAC, TTA, PCM,

* Video:
H.264, XviD, DivX, MPEG 1/2/4, Flash Video, Theora (Open Video), Dirac, H.263, RealVideo, Windows Media Video, MJPEG

* Container:
AVI, MPEG PS, MPEG TS, Matroska, MP4, PMP, RealMedia, ASF, MTS/AVCHD*, Quicktime*, OGM*

* Storage and Streaming:
CD, DVD, VCD, SVCD, CUESheet*, HTTP*, FTP*, RTSP*, UDP*

     * supported as input only

Website: http://www.mediacoderhq.com

The easy way to extract audio from video files

There might be many possible reasons why you need a soundtrack, or any part of it, from your favorite video clips or movies. While there are many free and commercial product, allowing to perform the required operation, in most of them, the operation requires specific knowledge, involves complicated settings setup, and at least calls for the manual reading.

AoA Audio Extractor is a very useful small tool with which you can extract the music/audio and other sound from your saved video files fast and easy way, and without any distortion. The output mp3 file will be kept in your specified folder and can be played with any of your players, or by the utility itself as a matter of fact, since there is a built-in player available. Just browse your hard drive and pick up the location, where you want to keep the output file, add the video file available on your disk, or one saved from inserted CD and click ’Start’. Within few minutes the required audio file is created.

Key features:

* Convert AVI, MPEG, MPG, DAT, FLV (Flash Video), WMV/ASF, MOV, MP4, 3GP to MP3.
* Convert AVI, MPEG, MPG, DAT, FLV (Flash Video), WMV/ASF, MOV, MP4, 3GP to WAV.
* Convert AVI, MPEG, MPG, DAT, FLV (Flash Video), WMV/ASF, MOV, MP4, 3GP to AC3.
* Batch conversion support.
* Ability to save any portion of the audio of a video file.
* Absolute freeware.
* You can easily convert the installation into portable utility. Download the installer and extract with Universal Extractor (another excellent freeware utility) to a folder of your choice. The application files are located in the {app} subfolder. Launch AoAAudioExtractor.exe.
* Designed for Windows 98/2000/NT/2003/XP/Vista.

Developers Website: http://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm

Direct Download: http://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.exe

Floola - Freeware Portable iPod Manager

Floola is a freeware application dedicated to the efficient management of your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows Operating systems. Floola application is portable, and it can be used directly from your iPod and needs no installation.

Floola supports all common used iPod features including photos, artwork, podcasts and smart playlists. It automatically converts any incompatible for the mobile device audio or video file, so that you can copy almost any file to it. It even allows adding Youtube and Myspace videos with a single click to the device.

Main features:

• Works on any Windows (from Windows98 to Windows Vista), any Mac and any Linux distribution with GTK installed.
• Do not require installation, and can be executed directly from iPod or any PC.
• Copy, add and extract songs to and from iPod.
• Easily manage, import and export playlists (m3u, pls).
• Works with podcasts and Last.fm.
• Add video files to iPod just copying the page URL address.
• Multilanguage support.
• Lyric support iPods (3G and above).
• Easily find duplicated and lost songs on iPod.
• Add artwork to your songs.
• Convert audio and video incompatible formats.
• Create HTML files containing list of your iPod files.
• Add pictures to your iPod, and much more…
  

Website: http://www.floola.com/home/

Direct download (iPod): http://www.floola.com/home/download_win

Direct download (Windows): http://www.floola.com/home/download_desktopwin

Make your own iPhone ringtones with ToneShop for Free

There are so many mobile phones around, that getting a unique ringtone on the mobile is not just matter of prestige, but matter of convenience, when you can immediately detect your personal call on the packed party. Frequently you are forced not just pay for the loading new ringtones to your phone in order to replace the standard built-in files, but also you need to work hard, looking for your favorite. The new freeware will help you creating ringtones from your favorite audio files, whenever you like, saving you a dollar charge for downloaded ringtone.

ToneShop is a small freeware that can create ringtones out of audio files for any phone supporting a true audio ringtone, including the Apple IPhone. You can quickly and easily select a fraction of the soundtrack to be used as a ringtone. A quality of software operations is guaranteed as ToneShip is a frontend GUI for well-known FFMPEG, the encoding engine which the majority of freeware video and audio conversion programs are based.

Software is very user-friendly and easy to understand. All you do is choose the ringtone output format, load in your original audio file, and select the output file name and location. Next, you use the play controls to listen to your audio file and locate the portion you want to become the ringtone. When you think you’ve found the starting position for your ringtone, press the Start button and the exact starting time down to the millisecond will appear in the box next to it. Repeat the procedure, when you want to pinpoint the ringtone end, pressing the Finish button. Preview your results. Now, you can manually edit the Start and Finish times by clicking in the text box and typing in new values. When the final tweaks are completed, press the Convert button and software will decode the trimmed audio track to the mobile phone recognizable format.

The software does not "invent the wheel". Everything it does can be performed by the existing on the market utilities. But, it is free, it produces a good quality ringtones, and everything you need is included in one piece of software. Give it a try!

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
* Any PC with Windows 2000, XP, or Vista
* 256MB of memory
* 20MB of storage (for ToneShop only, additional space might be required for audio and ringtone files)

INPUT AUDIO FILE FORMATS:
* MP3 (MPEG1 Layer 3)
* WAV (Uncompressed PCM)
* M4A (AAC)
* WMA (Windows Media Audio)

RINGTONE FILE FORMAT OUTPUT:
* MP3
* AAC (M4A)
* WAV (uncompressed and ADPCM)
* AMR-NB
* AMR-WB (Nokia TrueTones)
* MMF (Yamaha SMAF)
* Apple iPhone (M4R-AAC)

Download Link: http://toneshop.en.softonic.com/