Awave Audio

(www.fmjsoft.com)

Awave Audio is a dedicated audio file format batch converter.

Features:

Do conversions from the about 90 audio file formats that it can read into any of the 60 or so audio file formats that it writes!

A 3-step procedure makes converting large numbers of audio files both fast and as simple as converting a single file! And just as easily convert to multiple output formats in a single batch run!

Handle very large files without using up your memory.

Handle everything from low sample rate speech up to audiophile formats! Got 24-bit 192-KHz multi-channel audio? No problem! (the internal sample data precision is 32-bit floating point).

Several optional dithering techniques available (including professional quality noise dithering with accurately 'inverse F-weight' shaped noise). This improves the perceived sound quality when decreasing the sample bit-depth (e.g. when going from 24 to 16-bit).

Do truly high quality sample rate conversion (a.k.a. 'resampling'). Several options are available - the better ones have good enough signal to noise ratio to handle 24-bit audio without any perceptible artifacts!

You can do optional effects processing using up to six DirectShow effect filters (a.k.a. DirectX plug-ins - also used by many other professional audio software) as well as built in functions such as resampling and silence removal.

Optional 'Replay Gain' algorithm for psycho-acoustically corrected volume normalization.

Several forms of meta-information supported (a.k.a. text 'tags').

And much, much more!

Bonus feature: The Audio Recording Wizard easily lets you make new recordings.

Bonus feature: Read Audio CD tracks (requires MMC2 compatible CD/DVD-ROM).

Screen Shots:

Awave Audio - Step 1: Select input files

Awave Audio - Step 2: Select output options

Awave Audio - Step 2.1 (optional): Select multiple output formats

Awave Audio - Step 2.2 (optional): Select built-in audio processing options

Awave Audio - Step 2.3 (optional): Select DirectX plug-in audio processing options

Awave Audio - Step 3: Produce output!

Supported file formats:

Awave Audio can read ® and write (W) a whole lot of formats!

Ext	R/W	Type
AAC	R+W ^	MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADTS container format).
AAC	R ^	MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADIF container format).
AAC	R ^	MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format ('raw' format).
AIFC	R	Compressed Audio Interchange File Format.
AIFF	R+W	Audio Interchange File Format.
ALAW	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.711 A-law format audio.
ALW	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.711 A-law format audio.
AMR	R+W	MIME 'AMR File Storage format.
APE	R+W	Monkey Audio losslessly compressed files.
ASF	R =	Active Streaming Format (audio part only).
ATAK??	R+W	Soundscape Audio-Take files.
AU	R+W	Sun/NeXT/DEC Audio file.
AVI	R	MS Audio Video Interleave file (audio part only).
AVR	R	Audio Visual Research sound file.
CDA	R	Audio CD track.
CDR	R	Raw Audio-CD data.
COD	R+W	3GPP 'AMR Interface Format 2'.
DIG	R	Digilink format.
DIG	R	Sound Designer I audio file.
DSS	R %	Olympus DSS file.
DWD	R+W	DiamondWare Digitized file.
ESPS	R	ESPS audio files.
F32	R+W	Raw 32-bit IEEE floating point values.
F64	R+W	Raw 64-bit IEEE floating point values.
FLAC	R+W ?	Free Lossless Audio Codec format.
G721	R+W	Raw ITU G.721 4-bit ADPCM format data.
G723	R+W	Raw ITU G.723 3 or 5-bit ADPCM format data.
G726	R+W	Raw ITU G.726 2, 3, 4 or 5-bit ADPCM format data.
GSM	R+W	Raw GSM 6.10 audio stream.
GSM	R+W	Raw 'byte aligned' GSM 6.10 audio stream.
GSM	R+W	US Robotics voice modems GSM w.o. header / VoiceGuide / RapidComm.
GSM	R+W	US Robotics voice modems GSM w. header / QuickLink.
IFF	R+W	Interchange file format.
INRS	R	INRS-Telecommunications audio.
MAT	R+W	Matlab variables binary file.
MOV	R	Apple QuickTime audio.
MP1	R	MPEG audio stream, layer I.
MP2	R+W ¤	MPEG audio stream, layer II CBR.
MP3	R+W *	MPEG audio stream, layer III CBR.
MP3	R+W *	MPEG audio stream, layer III ABR.
MP3	R+W *	MPEG audio stream, layer III VBR.
MPA	R	MPEG audio stream, layer I, II or III.
MPEG	R	MPEG 1 system stream.
MPG	R	MPEG 1 system stream.
MPGA	R	MPEG audio stream, layer I, II or III.
MTS	R	Media Touch Systems style MPEG Audio layer II stream.
MUS	R	Musifile MPEG Layer II Audio stream.
NIST	R+W	NIST Sphere audio.
NVF	R+W	Creative Nomand Voice file.
OGG	R+W %	Vorbis Ogg file.
PAF	R+W	Ensoniq PARIS audio file.
PSION	R	PSION a-law audio.
RA	W #	RealAudio audio file.
RAW	R+W	Raw signed PCM data.
RIF	R+W	Rapidcom Voice/Quicklink Rockwell ADPCM files
ROCKWELL	R+W.	Raw Rockwell 2, 3, or 4-bit ADPCM formats data
SAM	R	Signed 8-bit Sample data.
SB	R+W	Raw Signed Byte (8-bit) data.
SD	R+W	Sound Designer I audio.
SD2	R+W	Sound Designer II flattened file.
SD2	R+W	Sound Designer II data fork.
SDW	R+W	Raw Signed DWord (32-bit) data.
SF	R	IRCAM SoundFile format.
SFR	R	Sonic Foundry Sample Resource.
SMP	R	Samplevision format.
SND	R	Raw unsigned PCM data.
SNDR	R	Sounder sound file.
SNDT	R	Sndtool sound file.
SPD	R	Speach Data file.
SPPACK	R+W	SPPack sound sample.
SVX	R	Interchange file format, 8SVX/16SV.
SW	R+W	Raw Signed Word (16-bit) data.
TXT	R+W	Ascii Text formatted audio data.
TXT	W	Ascii Text parameter description.
U255LAW	R+W	Raw 'exponential 8-bit' format.
UB	R+W	Raw Unsigned Byte (8-bit) data.
UDW	R+W	Raw Unsigned DWord (32-bit) data.
ULAW	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.711 mu-law format data.
ULW	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.711 mu-law format data.
UW	R+W	Raw Unsigned Word (16-bit) data.
V8	R	Covox 8-bit audio.
VAG	R+W	Sony Playstation/PS2 compressed sound files.
VAP	R+W	Annotated speech file.
VM1	R	Panasonic VM1 voice file.
VOC	R+W	Creative Labs sound file (older format).
VOC	R+W	Creative Labs sound file (newer format).
VOX	R+W	Dialogic adpcm.
W64	R+W	Sonic Foundry/Sony Wave-64 format.
WAV	R+W	Microsoft Waveform- 'Standard' type.
WAV	R+W	Microsoft Waveform - BWF 'Broadcast' type.
WAV	R+W	Microsoft Waveform - new 'Extensible' type.
WMA	R+W =	Windows Media Audio 4.
WMA	R+W =	Windows Media Audio 9 CBR.
WMA	R+W =	Windows Media Audio 9 VBR.
WMA	R+W =	Windows Media Audio 9 Professional.
WMA	R+W =	Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless.
WMA	R+W =	Windows Media Audio 9 Voice.
WMA	R+W =	Windows Media Audio ACELP.net.
WMV	R =	Windows Media Video (audio part only).
YADPCM	R+W	Raw Yamaha 4-bit ADPCM format data.

^ AAC support is not built in but can be handled by interfacting with a 3rd party party 'open source' encoder FAAC (libfaac.dll) & decoder FAAD 2 (libfaad2.dll).
% DSS decoding requires that Olympus DSS Player software is installed.
¤ MP2 encoding requires a free 3rd party DLL (TooLame.dll).
* MP3 encoding requires a free 3rd party DLL (Lame_enc.dll).
% OGG encoding and decoding requires a free add-on DLL's.
? FLAC encoding and decoding requires a free 3rd party DLL (libFLAC.dll).
# RA encoding requires free external DLLs from RealNetworks.
= WMA encoding and decoding requires the free Windows Media 9 run-time.