How to convert music file to MP3?

People who like downloading free audio resources via internet mostly are in OGG, APE or FLAC formats always ask that, "why can't I play the free audios on my new iPod or PSP?" And others may also say that, "How can I make a MP3 or M4A segment from my favorit music as an outstanding ringtune?"

ImTOO Audio Maker is the answer you are looking for! It not only provides an easy and completed way to convert between all popular audio formats, such as MP3, M4A, WAV, WMA, MP2, OGG, AAC, AC3, APE, FLAC, AU, etc. but also can convert video files including AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, MOV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, RM, H.264, M4V to your favorite audio formats. Furthermore, it is a way easy-to-use, powerful but cheap program with ripping and burning functions integrated in either. That means you just have to pay a little bit of money to get ImTOO Audio Maker, the easy-to-use, all-in-one converting, ripping and burning software to relax on your new iPod, PSP, cellphone, or whatever.

1. Download, install and run ImTOO Audio Maker.

2. Select Audio Converter function by clicking "Convert" tab.

3. Add Files by clicking "Add" button on the main interface or select "Add File… in the "File" menu..

4. Specify the target file format you want to convert. Highlight one or several files you loaded first and then select output profile from "Profile" combo-box.

5. Set output mode: After selecting certain output format, the right panel will show general standard of the format, such as: Bit rate, sample rate, codec, etc. By clicking certain setting, you may specify it , or just keep the default settings.

6. To set the folder that you want to save your target files, you may select the output folder by clicking "Browse…" button or directly enter a path in the "Destination" box. "C:temp" is set as the default destination folder.

7. At the last step, just click "Convert" button to start your conversion. You can see "Completed" under the "Status" column which means you got a successful conversion.

Preferences Setting Mode

There are two modes - simple mode and professional mode.
You can adjust the output settings by sliding the slider on the press of the button.

Or you can change more professional preferences by adjusting the Preference List, such as: duration, ID3 tag, volume, bit rate, sample rate, codec, etc. with the pressed.

Duration Setting

ImTOO Audio Maker supports clip or segment conversion. You can convert any clip or segment by setting the start point and duration on Professional Mode at will. The start point time format is: hh:mm::ss, for example: 00:30:20. The duration time format is: hh:mm:ss or s, for example: 00:00:40 or 40.

Edit ID3

You may edit the ID3 Tag of output files through Preferences Setting Panel on Professional Mode.



Set the Action of finishing work

You may set action "After work" under the "General" tab in the "Preferences" pop-up box by clicking "Tools"⇒"Preferences…"

Glossary: Top back

WAV:
WAV format is the standard Windows audio file format and it was originally to jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM.

WMA:
WMA stands for Windows Media Audio. A proprietary audio format owned by Microsoft, part of Microsoft's Windows Media technology.

M4A:
An MPEG-4 container format for audio files (compare to .mp4). The audio data within the container file can be encoded with virtually any audio-encoding mechanism, but most commonly the .m4a refers to an audio file stored within MPEG-4 container encoded with AAC audio format.

MP3:
MP3 stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer III. It is not a separate format, but a part of MPEG-1 video encoding format, developed by MPEG group in early 1990's. Too often people refer MP3 as MPEG-3, which is incorrect, because such format doesn't even exist.