Sound Grinder 2.5.5 review

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.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 2970K Developer: Monkey Tools Buy Now Price: $39.00 Updated: 23 Aug 2006

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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.

Here are some key features of "Sound Grinder":
RMS and Peak Normalizing
AMR Narrowband support
Rapid Convert™
Playback Slider
New File Format Support
Pull-up/pull-down Sample Rates
Retain Folder Structure Option
31 Character Name Limit
New Installer
Many additional speed and ease of use Enhancements.

Limitations:
Sound Grinder will run without limitation for 15 days, after which it will no longer run, but it can be activated within the application.

What's New:
Enhanced AIFF and WAVE/BWAVE importing Improved support of AIFF and WAVE/BWAVE file importing to handle cases of malformed and corrupted files.
Updated support for mono FLAC files Fixed an issue regarding mono FLAC files.
Fixed retaining region information during conversion Fixed an issue where Sound Grinder would not retain region information while performing a conversion. Now all region information is properly retained.
Fixed WAVE/BWAVE metadata export handling We have fixed an issue where metadata in WAVE/BWAVE files created by Sound Grinder may not be recognized in other applications.
Fixed a hang on import of Sound Designer 2 files Corrected a situation where Sound Grinder would hang when importing Sound Designer 2 files with region information.
MP3 fix and enhancement We corrected an issue regarding the handling of min/max bitrates for MP3 export and added support for importing MP3 files using the MPEG 2.5 specification.
Other fixes... This version also includes other fixes that provide improved stability.

Requirements:
Quicktime 6.3 or later.