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The Best Audio Codec. Choosing the Right Format for Your Audio

The Best Audio Codec. Choosing the Right Format for Your AudioThere are so many formats to choose from. As suppliers of audio conversion tools, we’re often asked which audio format is the best, or, more conservatively, which one we recommend. While we do feel that some audio formats are better than others in some respects, there is no single ‘best’ format or codec. Instead, there are audio formats and codecs offering the best fit for a given purpose. Read more...

Tags: Audio Converter Studio, Free M4a to MP3 Converter Studio

WOW! We have updated 5 programs!

WOW! We have updated 5 programs!Today is a great day, we release 5 our programs under the version number 8.0. Before we discuss the new features, I would like to shed some light on the history. Read more...

Tags: MP3 Tag Pro, Audio Converter Studio, Visual MP3 Splitter & Joiner, MIDI Converter Studio, Music Duplicate Remover

Don't Let iTunes Hold Your Music Hostage

Don't Let iTunes Hold Your Music HostagePurchased a bunch of music from iTunes Store and fond out you can only play it in your Apple devices? Do not despair! We have the right solution offering to convert your purchased music in M4a or AAC formats into MP3 for absolutely free. Read more...

Tags: Free M4a to MP3 Converter Studio

Tagging MP3 Files

Tagging MP3 FilesWhen you play back an MP3 song, you can often see the song name, the name of the artist, and sometimes other information about the tune. Where does it come from, and how is it stored inside an MP3 file? Read more...

Tags: MP3 Tag Pro

Choosing the Right Microphone: Connectivity, Chats, Podcasts and Vocal

Choosing the Right Microphone: Connectivity, Chats, Podcasts and VocalWhich mike do I use to record a lecture? Which model is best for recording podcasts? Can I use the same mike for chatting and birding? What to use to record kids playing? Read more...

Tags: MP3 Recorder Studio

Things You Should Know when Converting Audio Formats: Lossy vs. Lossless

Things You Should Know when Converting Audio Formats: Lossy vs. LosslessThe lossy vs. lossless debate is endless. However, I can see no reason to set one against another. The two formats offer distinctly different features, and serve distinctly different purposes. Read more...

Tags: Audio Converter Studio

Choosing the Right Microphone: What’s Available

Choosing the Right Microphone: What’s AvailableYou’re about to record sound with MP3 Recorder Studio, and need a good mike to get started. Type “microphone” on Amazon, and you’ll get a good several thousand results. They all look alike, and they’re all very different. Prices range all the way from $50 to hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Which one do you need? The answer, as always, depends on what you’re about to use it for, your budget and your very own taste. Read more...

Tags: MP3 Recorder Studio

Before Converting Audio Formats: What You Should Know

Before Converting Audio Formats: What You Should 
KnowBefore converting a bunch of music files from one audio format to another, there are a bunch of things to consider. Depending on what you’re going to do with the files, the source format, free space requirements and similar considerations, choosing one format or another can become tricky. In this article, we’ll shed light on things you need to know before converting audio formats. Read more...

Tags: Audio Converter Studio, Free M4a to MP3 Converter Studio

Free YouTube to MP3 Converter for Mac OS X and other software updates

Free YouTube to MP3 Converter for MacThis month, we released a new completely free program and a couple of big updates. Let's take a closer look at them.
Some time ago we released a free YouTube downloader and YouTube to MP3 converter for Windows. The program turned out to be very popular, so we decided to create a similar application for Mac. This fast and user-friendly tool can convert YouTube videos to MP3 and thus save YouTube music to your hard drive. Later you can transfer the files to your iPod, iPhone, or to another MP3-compatible player. Read more...

Tags: Free YouTube to MP3 Converter, Movienizer, mp3Tag Pro

ManiacTools Team

AlexIn this post I would like to say a few words about the history of our company, which is closely related to my own story, and then introduce the members of our team.
My name is Alex, I was born in 1979 in Ukraine (the former USSR). Since my very childhood I've loved computers. In the past they were huge, quite expensive and practically unavailable for most people. My father was a programming engineer, that's why I could spend some time at a computer. I loved playing computer games and decided to become a programmer. But when this happened, new interests appeared. For example, I discovered the internet. It was 1996, and the download speed was something like 10 bytes per second. Read more...

Tags: Team, mp3Tag Pro