Highly efficient and feature rich audio utility featuring conversion support.
Sound Grinder is a highly efficient and feature rich audio utility featuring conversion support for many of the most popular audio formats including:
· AIFF
· AMR Narrowband
· AU
· MP3 (LAME codec)
· OGG/Vorbis
· Quicktime Movie
· Sound Designer II
· WAV
Sound Grinder also provides fast access to
audio conversion right within the Mac OS X Finder.
Sound Grinder incorporates Rapid Convert allowing it to pull-up/pull-down sample rates, folder hierarchy recreation, and 31 character naming compatibility.
Whether you are an industry professional, an up-and-coming audio engineer, or someone looking for a great way to convert audio files, you owe it to yourself to check out all that Sound Grinder has to offer.
Main features of Sound Grinder:
Power:
Universal Binary for 100% native Intel and PowerPC support.
Sophisticated processing engine for speed and stability.
Droplets, providing quick drag-n-drop access to file conversion.
Rapid Convert, providing in-Finder file conversion.
One window design.
Support for multiple sessions.
Customizable list view.
Multiple error logging levels.
Conversion:
Comprehensive conversion engine.
Metadata batch-processing.
RMS and Peak normalizing.
User presets.
Full interleaved/split-stereo handling.
"Retain Folder Structure" option.
Naming options for Pro Tools compatibility with split audio files.
Pull-up/pull-down sample rates.
Custom sample rates.
31 character name limit support.
Metadata:
Support for ID3 tags, Vorbis Comments, FLAC Comments, and Quicktime User Data.
Support for retaining Broadcast Extension (BEXT) metadata
Support for Pro Tools file comments and timecode stamps.
Support for Finder/Spotlight comments.
Support for reading assets supported by Quicktime.
Support for ID3 tags, Vorbis Comments, FLAC Comments, and Quicktime User Data.
All metadata viewable in the List view.
Comprehensive metadata editing for export.
Playback:
Preview conversion settings.
Full playback control including scrubbing.
Playback slider.
Loop playback.
Quicktime movie video preview.
Requirements of Sound Grinder:
Quicktime 6.4 or later.
Quicktime 6.5 is required for AMR Narrowband support.
Quicktime 6.5.1 is required for Apple Lossless support.
800 x 600 screen resolution.
Limitations of Sound Grinder:
Sound Grinder will run without limitation for 15 days, after which it will no longer run, but it can be activated within the application.
The only limitation is that the first half of all created files will be the expected audio, but the second half will contain silence.
What's New in This Release:
Added support for Microsoft GSM 6.10 in WAV/BWAV files - Added ID/Read support for Microsoft's GSM 6.10 codec in WAV/BWAV files.
Fixed bug in MPEG 4 Audio / Apple Lossless files - Fixed a bug in creating MPEG 4 Audio / Apple Lossless files that created slightly malformed files.
General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
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