AudioCatalyst

Not Rated

 

AudioCatalyst takes your CDs and transforms them to MP3s in one easy step. AudioCatalyst is based on the fast and popular XingMP3 Encoder and AudioGrabber, the most widely used digital audio ripper available today.

Features

  • Fast MP3 encoding, faster than real-time
  • High frequency encoding, up to 20kHz
  • Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoding for producing better compression ratios
  • AudioGrabber ripping technology, the most popular digital audio ripper available
  • CDDB Support for automatic artist, album and track information retrieval
  • Intermediate WAV file option for WAV and MP3 output
  • Define encoding start and stop times for encoding segments of tracks
  • Normalizing for automatically corrected recording volume
  • Checksum Utility for file verification
  • Supports multiple data rates including 32, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256 and 320 kbps
  • Mono, Stereo and Joint Stereo support

Purchase Information

Requirements

  • Windows 95/98/NT 4.0
  • Pentium
  • 16 MB RAM
  • Sound card
  • CD-ROM supporting digital audio extraction
  • Microsoft DirectX Media 6.x installed

A Macintosh version is also available from the Product Home Page, but there is no Macintosh trial version. A Linux version is also in the works.

 

Download

The unregistered shareware version of the program randomly limits the selection of extractable tracks to half of the total tracks, allows only 128 Kbit/s encoding and disables file-based WAV to MP3 encoding.

acw21t.exe 2.9 MB

 

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