Comments on: Free Audio Converter (eg. M4A to MP3)

By: debbie

debbie — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:16:50 +0000

this is not FREE. It adds a sound to each song you try to convert until you buy the program.

By: nikki

nikki — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:41:14 +0000

It says that it can convert itunes to mp3 but it is not working for me. Do you know of any free converter that will convert these itunes files?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:51:14 +0000

Nice! I bookmarked that and will likely write about it. The interface looks simple enough for those that don’t want to be confused by all the different settings that a lot of differnet apps offer.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:50:26 +0000

In some cases I do agree with you, but there are some apps that I think is worth it if they do a good job with the task they’re trying to accomplish. Digsby is another good example, and up until their recent events I was fine with them presenting a half dozen different toolbars for me to install during the setup routine. Other people are fine with that as well since the product is so good. Unfortunately they were also doing other “less obvious” schemes that users weren’t very aware of, and that’s ultimately what turned me off of their product.

By: Ian Cammarata

Ian Cammarata — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:43:45 +0000

winLAME – An open source project hosted on Sourceforge. Does most, if not all, that BonkEnc does, and looks much nicer doing it. Windows only as far as I know.

[winlame.sourceforge.net]

By: djh2400

djh2400 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:23:30 +0000

…and for everything else, there’s BonkEnc. It can handle pretty much all of these codecs and is FOSS, so there’s no crapware to deal with.

[portableapps.com]

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:45:04 +0000

I’m a bit disappointed. Software that installs junk like this should get no publicity at ALL, even if you point out what you need to click during the install. Its just NOT user friendly and I’m sure a majority of people will just skip on by and install all this junk on their PCs. There are other free solutions out there, such as foobar2000 and dbPowerAmp. These may not be explicitly designed just to convert tracks, but they don’t hoist toolbars on the users PCs.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:20:02 +0000

I’ve been using a program called Aaslund Soft Simple Audio Converter that does the same thing, but doesn’t pull any of this sneaky installation stuff.