Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

ct@work reviewed v4.1.2.784 on Jan 21, 2013

There is a new version @ http://www.gxdownloads.net. The last version I found is the 8.4.

kadir8282 reviewed v5.0.2.866 Beta 10.7 on May 12, 2009

thanks for pro.

oompoop reviewed v5.0.2.866 Beta 10.7 on Jan 25, 2009

Tried GX.Transcoder and loved it (well, some years ago ...)
... but it often crashed and needed to be re-installed before each usage :-(
... then found FormatFactory and would give it "ten" points,
... but there is a limit of 128 kbps, unfortunately :-(
SUPER obviously has no limits, but an awful GUI and is a little bit complicated to work with - I had to change the screen resolution first to find the startbutton at the bottom :-(
So, nobody is perfect, but you may live well with a triumvirat ...

TGB72 reviewed v5.0.2.866 Beta 10.7 on Nov 27, 2008

Very buggy software, it crash often during conversion, and the interface is a just ugly. I prefer FormatFactory, it support the same input/output formats of GX::Transcoder, the interface is much more friendly, it's pretty solid and stable and is also free.

ct@work reviewed v5.0.2.866 Beta 10.7 on Aug 7, 2008

On my PC I have only a small amount of bugs. The player is not so easy to understand - the transcoder is simple and good. I don't understand your opinion? I don't use the other modules of this software, thats why i can not rate this parts.

Ryusennin reviewed v5.0.2.866 Beta 10.7 on Aug 7, 2008

It has nothing to do with V5 being a neverending beta; it has been buggy and cumbersome since its first release a year ago. Heck, even Winamp 5 has a much better transcoder (which is simple and fast to use at that).

ct@work reviewed v5.0.2.861 Beta 10 on Aug 6, 2008

Nice work. Have some bugs, but is a beta. Post your bugs on the website of the author - it's a beta. Player have a verry slow start - but have a good interface. A help file is missing for the user.

Ryusennin reviewed v5.0.2.861 Beta 10 on Aug 4, 2008

What happened to GX Tanscoder? V4 was far from perfect, but it was so much better than V5. This new version is slow, buggy as hell and totally unintuitive.

argybee reviewed v5.0.2.844 Beta 8 on Jun 23, 2008

Problems galore!
Everything seems to run slow.
Player cant see more than 2 folders deep!!?? Even though the transcoder can...?? Couldn't play most of my music files as a result.
Couldn't get it to open mpeg for tranz to mp3 !!?
Seems to open only basic audio file types.
Clicked on 'speaker' button and immediately got major app crash...
Even if this thing worked it is ridiculous to take out 20Mb of HD for the functionality it has.
Anyone looking at this should look at AIMP2 which is primarily a player but has excellent transcoder, recorder, library, tag edits etc. as utilities and takes out about 7Mb of hard drive. Something definitely wrong here because I really think the GxTranscoder of about 2 years ago was much better than this junk. It's getting worse over time.

Ryusennin reviewed v5.0.0.734 Beta4a on Apr 28, 2008

Aah, I get it... You acquired Awave "for free" (wink wink) and thus, of course, price can't be the point, right? It might make sense for you, but personally, I wouldn't trust someone who can't even spell correctly his own nickname (don't whine, you asked for it).

Now buzz off lad.

anomoly reviewed v5.0.0.733 Beta 4 on Apr 14, 2008

point is the gui is ughh. A comparison of gui's has nothing to do with developer, price, or lack thereof (dimwit).

Ryusennin reviewed v5.0.0.722 Beta 3 on Apr 3, 2008

@Anomoly

Awave Studio is 100$, GX is free. Your point?

oompoop reviewed v4.0.2.44 on Dec 21, 2007

Before complaining about this and that, look at the homepage with addins, plugins, FAQ, forum, language files and so on.
Remarkable for a free program ...

Darkman00 reviewed v3.20.51.3687 on Aug 29, 2007

Does it convert .flv files to .avi?

and vice versa - does it do .avi to .flv?

Thanks

anomoly reviewed v4.0.0.32 on Jul 25, 2007

Can't speak for the interface but it should be more like Awave's, or even multi frontend's would be better.

enrom reviewed v4.0.0.30 on Jul 12, 2007

TGB72 & Asellus & CriCri_Pingouin: your opinion is very good. However, I consider that in is path and time this software is the best. Remember that is beta yet. Nice to meet you.

TGB72 reviewed v4.0.0.27 on Jun 22, 2007

Add multithread support (convert more than 1 file simultaneously, don't confuse with batch conversion what is convert many files in 1 task but 1 by 1) could be what takes more time to the developers, add unicode support for "exotic filenames" and keep tags during conversion shouldn't be big deal.
Respecto al tema del idioma, si bien este es un sitio en ingles gente de todo el mundo incluidos miles que no hablan ingles descargan soft de aquí por eso creo que toda crítica o review debe ser bien recibida, esté en el idioma que esté siempre a alguién le será útil.

Ryusennin reviewed v4.0.0.27 on Jun 22, 2007

Tag conversion work perfectly, at least in beta 27 (just tried converting an Ogg file to Tak, and the comments were carried over to Ape without any glitch).

asellus reviewed v4.0.0.25 Beta on Jun 18, 2007

Weaknesses of this transcoder:-

1. Does not transfer ID tags in conversion.
2. If the filename has exotic filenames such as ~ character or Japanese/Chinese names, this tool will not convert it. A fatal weakness.
3. Not multithreaded (at least with the MP3 and AAC encoder I have tried).

Weakness no.2 is not a good thing.

enrom reviewed v4.0.0.25 Beta on Jun 16, 2007

Hola Second Shadow. Gracias por tu mensaje. La próxima vez le meto todas las ñ y todos loas acentos que pueda. Hay que castellanizar Internet. Del programa, excelente. Olé.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v4.0.0.23 Beta on Jun 15, 2007

Apparently, it needs .Net. Hence, compatibility is NOT "Windows all", and it requires the .Net framework. If this application was correctly described, I would have saved the last 5 minutes.
So 3 points for not being what it says on the box.

Second Shadow reviewed v4.0.0.23 Beta on Jun 13, 2007

Excellent piece of software.

Hey, anomoly, chill out, dude! Calling non-English speakers "handicapped" and "lazy" won't earn you a lot of friends ... Plus you´ll look like a flag-waving moron, but that's your problem, actually

Y enrom, vos ponete aunque sea un cuarto de pila y tratá de escribir en inglés que si no por acá los ñatos se alborotan ....

I'm sure the developper digs all this debate as he (OR she) keeps getting 5's ... :D

anomoly reviewed v4.0.0.23 Beta on Jun 12, 2007

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed but this is an ENGLISH site. NOT a multilingual nor a handicap or any other type of website for people too lazy to communicate properly (or learn how to)

challenger reviewed v4.0.0.21 Beta on Jun 11, 2007

Very good program !

enrom reviewed v4.0.0.21 Beta on Jun 11, 2007

Este programa es cada vez mejor. Sigan así! Congratulaciones. Saludos.

enrom reviewed v4.0.0.18 Beta on Jun 5, 2007

Excelente. Pude convertir por fin y después de usar todo lo conocido como FooBar, DBPower, WinAmp, The GodFather, y muchos etc. archivos desde el formato OGG al MP3. Espero poder hacer lo mismo con los malditos APE-CUE y FLAC-CUE.
PD: La única contra es que hay que bajar previamente el insoportable Microsoft .NET Framework.

krgood reviewed v3.20.50.3683 on May 7, 2007

Tried the previous version, blew up loading data base, This one seems to load my Db but is too slow to be useful (over 30k files). The progress bar at the bottom of the player tab is black with dark text so you have to struggle to see where it is in the process. No way to stop Db loading once it starts short of terminating the program. Once Db loading starts, nothing else seems to work. Tried registering on the support site, got into a loop with registering, never was able to successfully register.
Nice program menus but not much use if you can't use them.

osric reviewed v3.20.46.3679 on Apr 25, 2007

Nope, betanews is not rigged. The reason for the high rating is because GX::Transcoder version 2 was a really good software. The rating have been carried over from the previous version.

You can download version 2.24 from here:
http://germanixsoft.de/j...mp;gid=15&Itemid=27

This version 3 is really really buggy. And currently ver 3 only supports audio transcoding. There is going to be another series of buggy alpha builds when the video transcoder edition of version 3 is released.

espyder reviewed v3.20.46.3678 Alpha on Apr 20, 2007

As usual, AC3 is unsupported!

some guy reviewed v3.20.46.3678 Alpha on Apr 20, 2007

great idea but to buggy tryed to encode a wma file to wav or mp3 failed.

How can this have a max rating, all I see are 3 or below, makes me wonder if beta
news sets their own rating? a little outside influence?

boaz reviewed v3.20.44.3652 on Mar 3, 2007

Great, we went from buggy final builds back to buggy alpha builds!

osric reviewed v3.20.44.3651 on Mar 3, 2007

If ATE stands from Audio Transcoder Edition, what does AWE stand for? I don't find any support for video yet.

Nice eye candy improvements, but its quite buggy - pressing play when there are no items in the playlist causes unhandled exceptions, program crashes at startup.

Is there an English Changelog anywhere?

kbsoftware reviewed v3.10.32.3557 PreAlpha 3 on Nov 4, 2006

You have to register to download this version. I love disposable e-mail address' I recommend pookmail.com :)

I'm still no fan of the gui. I've started to use Super (c) and I'm preferring that program over this one.

markus10018 reviewed v3.00.30.3340 on Oct 18, 2006

This is the release version of the ATE (audio transcode edition). Took me a while to figure that out. Video support is planned for 3.10... Maybe the developer should provide more information about his program's editions on his homepage.

kll reviewed v3.0.29.3315 Beta on Sep 19, 2006

take from ther home page
"The GX::Transcoder is Freeware. You can reach our Help Desk about our forum. or our FAQ for the Version 2.24 under http://www.germanixsoft.de/faq. This description is only for the version 2.24. The current beta of the v3 contains only the Audio Transcoder, the Audio CD Grabber and the Audio File Tagger. The other modules of the version 2.24 will come later this year."

so later this year you can use the new version to convert movies

IMKey reviewed v3.0.29.3315 Beta on Sep 18, 2006

make sure u have .NET framework if you have issues running it....

jtopping reviewed v3.0.22.3263 Beta on Aug 14, 2006

I cannot find how to transcode video in the new version...any help?

Kylde reviewed v3.0.22.3263 Beta on Aug 13, 2006

On first run, "the application failed to initialize properly (0xc000135)"

Don Juan reviewed v3.0.21.3257 Beta 4b on Aug 6, 2006

It works, unlike last time I tried it, but I really really dislike the interface, and it is very slow relative to other apps.

minklein reviewed v3.0.20.3251 Beta 4a on Jul 25, 2006

Looks pretty but does not work with XP64.

shicaca reviewed v3.0.17.3242 Beta 3a on Jul 7, 2006

It'd be nice to be able to transcode from any of the supported formats TO any of the formats. If you use iTunes and have unprotected files (aac), you can transcode to another format. For some reason my peripheral can only read WMA, and it's a pain in the butt to change a file from AAC --> MP3 --> WMA.

darthbeads reviewed v3.0.17.3242 Beta 3a on Jul 7, 2006

Beautiful new interface, same great functionality. Author needs to update the screenshot on this page, but otherwise a fantastic new direction for a great program that has long suffered from a massively convoluted interface.

I am at a loss for words as to how the reviewer below can consider this "bloatware." ?!

nilst2006 reviewed v3.0.17.3239 Beta 3 on Jun 27, 2006

A bloatware...

cricri_pingouin reviewed v3.0.14.3221 Beta 2 on Jun 16, 2006

Smaller package, lighter interface, ...
I like this version. I'm still not sure the format selection is best placed in the contextual menu, but it's ok with me.
And to make it even lighter, I could do with a "View->Tabs->Renamer" option or something like that, but as it stands it does the trick again for me :)

ct@work reviewed v3.0.14.3219 Beta 2 on Jun 15, 2006

The screenshot is wrong. The new version has a complete new gui. This version containes also no video function. But for audio the software is excellent!

pyridox reviewed v3.0.13.3212 Beta on Jun 7, 2006

Pretty good program. I think that the author did simplify the user interface in this version. It certainly has an easier look than when I fist tried it a while ago.

I had a problem encoding a wav file of a song, to mp3 192kps. The mp3 was slow & stuttered. Version 2.4d didn't have this problem.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v2.24.2979 on Jun 6, 2006

I admit that when I rated it 5 earlier, I've been over-enthusiastic.

Following me bragging about it, I advised several people to use it. Every single one of them have complained about it and stopped using it after very few attempts.

Yes, the UI is totally bloated, clunky and counter intuitive. I admit that I was fortunate enough to get around it "rather" quickly myself, but it wasn't without struggle, and I hear from numerous people that just can't manage to do anything with it. I'll even add that I'm hardly surprised.
Yes, there are numerous bugs which are STILL not fixed after numerous new releases. Clearly the authors give priority to adding bells, whistles and icing instead of dedicating this precious time to actually get the features already built in to work.
Yes, although it still possible to switch to English, if like me you're not German litterate, there WILL be situations where you'll hit the language barrier (either while using the software, or while trying to get support).

I'll still give it a 3 to encourage the authors, but I personally gave up waiting for a rock solid build that will become my de-facto multimedia converter.

Ulmo reviewed v2.24.2979 on Jun 6, 2006

Difficult to Rate.

5 = Features

2 = UI ! Why ALL options are always visible ?

henrypeck reviewed v2.24.2979 on Jun 5, 2006

A UI only a mother could love. Good luck.

rms10 reviewed v2.24.2980d Beta on May 27, 2006

Carefull on this one. A previous version of this was indicated to have Trojan Horse BackDoor.Generic2.VNP on the gxFunction_System.dll file by AVG Anti-Virus.

ghammer reviewed v2.24.2980d Beta on May 25, 2006

If you HAVE to use this, you may be able to figure it out. Lots of 'Help' buttons. None work. No info on failures, just that the operation failed.

No, this has not gotten better in years of development.

Give it a pass, install foobar and the proper plugins. Convert away. Need multiple conversions at one pass? foobar and MAREO work well.

AlienChld7 reviewed v2.24.2978c on May 6, 2006

Works very well and it's free. That combination is hard to find. I've used this many times when I needed to convert files from one format to another.

On the downside, the user interface is really quite awful. But if you can stand it long enough to figure it out and deal with its problems and obstacles, this program is definitely worth having.

foxtyke reviewed v2.24.2978c on Mar 3, 2006

While the program does what is intended, the UI is rather poorly designed.

I do hope that the 3.0 release has the entire UI revised, redesigned and reimplemented as at this moment, I find it user aggressive.

Obren reviewed v2.24.2978c on Feb 22, 2006

I work with computer for 15 years, but this is one of worst examples of bad designed user interface I have ever seen.

On the other hand, program does the job, so 3 stars...

pyridox reviewed v2.24.2978c on Feb 22, 2006

Nice program, and the price is also great!

Blackhole8746 reviewed v2.24.2968a on Jan 7, 2006

Ultimate

ct@work reviewed v2.24.2964 on Dec 22, 2005

Excellent Software - do what the author say. The GUI is highly customizable.

stylemessiah reviewed v2.24.2964 on Dec 21, 2005

Utter crap and a nightmare GUI

If i trancode something, ill do it with anything BUT this

photonboy reviewed v2.24.2960 Beta 3a on Dec 17, 2005

I tried to use it for video converting and I've used a lot of software, however this was a confusing mess to me and did not do what I wanted.

EarlyMorningHours reviewed v2.24.2956 Beta 3 on Dec 12, 2005

I've been following the development of this utility for a couple of years now, since it was called Germani X. The interface has just exploded into a complete mess. I mean it's a total disaster as far as I'm concerned. And you'd think after such a period of time, the amount of bugs would at least have been brought under control. I'm still rooting for the team here, since it is a powerful tool and free at that, but I don't know how much longer this can continue.

NEOBassDUDE reviewed v2.23.2863h on Dec 2, 2005

Unfortunately it does not run in Windows x64.

asdasd reviewed v2.23.2863h on Nov 29, 2005

Great stuff!

Needed to convert an MP4 to a MP3 - and it did in no time.

Great job. Thanks

motamunda reviewed v2.23.2851g on Nov 2, 2005

Unfortunately I think these people have bitten off more than they can chew. Although the interface is very pretty and seems to offer a comprehensive array of media related functions, it seems most just don't work. For example I created a playlist (player) and after finally working out how to add some files I got all sorts of duplications and errors appearing in the list and when I clicked on one song it played a different one (and displayed the details for yet another) Netradio didn't work at all. Nor did CD extract. It's been this way for a couple of years now - pity! It's all too flaky. VB is too fat for this type of app also.

conan1873 reviewed v2.23.2841d on Oct 27, 2005

Excellent software. This latest version is great, haven't found one issue with it. One question though, under the Function menu is a option for CD/DVD Burning......does anyone know when this option will be made available to use?

tremens reviewed v2.23.2841d on Oct 26, 2005

keep up the good work!!!

***
Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is an industry-standard electronic communication protocol that defines each musical note in an electronic musical instrument such as a synthesizer, precisely and concisely, allowing electronic musical instruments and computers to exchange data, or "talk", with each other. MIDI does not transmit audio - it simply transmits digital information about a music performance.

ct@work reviewed v2.23.2836c on Oct 26, 2005

it goes better and better ... the author works hard for a freeware. THX !!!

SamiChang reviewed v2.23.2836c on Oct 26, 2005

tremens:
"Um, MIDI? People still use that? "
stop spreading ignorance, you obviously know very little about music"

Edit: that is true you really obviously know nothing about music tremens! asking people still uses midi or not? why don't you first google what really is midi beofre you posting sh!t on here?

DudeBoyz reviewed v2.23.2833b on Oct 24, 2005

DBPowerAmp seems to do a more reliable job. This thing just doesn't feel stable or intuitive by comparison.

ct@work reviewed v2.22.2781 on Oct 6, 2005

Press the SAVE button for switching the output directory and set the config for filename handling of existing files correct - then you get nice results.

clr211 reviewed v2.22.2781 on Oct 6, 2005

never could get the output dir to work correctly, always output to c:\, no matter how many times i changed the output dir.

also got screwed up output file names. artist-title.ogg became artist-titlepq928323948.mp3. other times artist1-songA.ogg became artist1-songB.mp3, or maybe artist2-songE.mp3, which had the effect of randomly overwriting files.

i give it a 2, however, because it did actually transcode from .ogg to .mp3.

tremens reviewed v2.22.2781 on Sep 1, 2005

i give a five because they're working hard on it. to previous guy, the description above is incorrect and was obviously not posted by author.

Author's desciption
"The GX::Transcoder is a flexible audio converter software, which is able to convert in a batch mode between a lot of audio formats. Additionally the Transcoder uses plugins to add more functions for transforming and playing audio files.

The GX::Transcoder in it's standard version is able to en- and decode MP1, MP3, MP2, MPC, OGG Vorbis, PCM up to 7.1 Channel, G.721, G.723, G.726, G.729, ADPCM, GSM, VOX, DSP, VQF and RAW files as well as decoding QuickTime MOV and QT files. There are also AddIns available, which extends the Transcoder to handle the formats AAC, M4A, M4P4, LA, LPAC, WMA, TTA, OptimFrog, WavPack, FLAC, rkAudio, Real Audio, Speex, Bonk Audio and Shorten. There are plans to support even more audio formats. The transcoder also contains a video converter. This converter can transcoder between all installed avi codecs, mpeg with dvd, vcd and svs extension and wma video files.

The GX::Transcoder can transfer the tags ID3v1, ID3v2, APE v1 and v2, Vorbis Comments, FLAC and WMA Tags.

The GX::Transcoder is Freeware."

And to the guy that said
"Nice tool.

Um, MIDI? People still use that? "

stop spreading ignorance, you obviously know very little about music

SamiChang reviewed v2.22.2781 on Sep 1, 2005

*You can transcode audio files into many formats: AAC, MP4, M4A, Bonk, FLAC, LA, LPAC, MIDI, MP2, MP3, MPC, MPP, MP+, OptiomFrog, Ogg Vorbis, rkAudio, VQF, WavPack, TTA, WMA, Shorten, PCM, GSM, ADPCM, VOX, G721, G723, G726, uLaw, aLaw, DSP, Raw PCM, Monkeys Audio, AVI (Audio), MOD, Bonk and more*
I wonder if you are blind or just stupid LRN, read the review of the software

LRN reviewed v2.20.2760 on Aug 8, 2005

Great app!

SamiChang is dumb, there's no way to convert midi (in fact - it's computer vatiant of notes) to frequency-based formats (wav and compressed).
It's same as if you want software developers make your computer sing a song, while you provide music and lyrics.

tvadakia reviewed v2.20.2760 on Aug 7, 2005

I have never seen an accurate wav to midi converter. In fact, professional audio-"hearing"-chord finders only have an 80% accuracy, on average. It would be a handy tool though…

This software, it may be a little different, quirky even, with its interface, but it's proven invaluable to me in the audio world.

Oh, and, to those that wonder about MIDI, and that it’s still around: you wouldn’t be listening to much music outside of the studio without it. It’s not just a format on the computer…

ghammer reviewed v2.20.2760 on Aug 7, 2005

Nice tool.

Um, MIDI? People still use that?

rpavl reviewed v2.20.2726 RC1 on Jul 26, 2005

Simply Awesome utility, again the "interface" folks...oh my my....Great Product.

jastonas reviewed v2.20.2716 Beta 7 on Jul 18, 2005

when it has an interface that people can use, i will rate it more!
It's just unusable:P

stigmata0815 reviewed v2.20.2716 Beta 7 on Jul 18, 2005

this is a very very very good program!
i use this tool for a longe time and it's getting better and better!

...go on with this tool!...

LRN reviewed v2.20.2716 Beta 7 on Jul 18, 2005

For application, what do several different functions, interface is ok.

hugh750 reviewed v2.20.2716 Beta 6a on Jul 17, 2005

I Downloaded GX Transcoder And Installed It I Ran Its Auto Updater And It Seems To Just Wonderfully On My Machine.

star51L reviewed v2.20.2716 Beta 6a on Jul 17, 2005

Seems like it's in perpetual-beta status ;)

Please, the interface....

aerthling reviewed v2.20.2684 Public Beta 5a on Jun 7, 2005

The interface needs some serious work.

Kylde reviewed v2.20.2676 Public Beta 4 Updated on May 28, 2005

still poor, choose english & u get the eula in german :) Then a conflict is reported with regsvr32.exe during install, and "The video converter for video filetypes mpeg1, mpeg2, avi with all installed codecs and wmv (supports VCD, SVCD and DVD Extensions) comes with one of the next betas" is laughable, it's been "due" for how many releases?

ct@work reviewed v2.20.2676 Public Beta 4 Updated on May 27, 2005

The video converter is done since release 2.0 - write comment after you check the release. Only the description above is wrong or old. The programmer is a german - thats why the eula is in german (i think - thats why he named GERMANIX). A verry unfair comment ...

cees2000 reviewed v2.20.2653 Public Beta 2 on Apr 11, 2005

usually very good but this latest releas sucks.
Keeps giving bass.dll not found error; also, the only language it supports is german, and the language tab does not show ANY languages. I do understand german but, I prefer my software to be in english, even though I'm dutch. :-)
So, I switched back to a previous release.

spiked reviewed v2.20.2636 Public Beta 1 on Apr 10, 2005

Great for audio. Works OK for video, too, but the video portion of the UI seems tacked on, as an afterthought. It also provides less control over video quality/size/speed and other settings than other progs.

justinb reviewed v2.20.2636 Public Beta 1 on Apr 6, 2005

very good program! i have been using it since the early versions. there are some bugs, but it is a beta.. one of the best programs i have found for audio/video converting.

Madlew reviewed v2.15.2614 rc4b on Mar 17, 2005

This is a pretty good program. It does what it says. It's just that the layout makes it a little confusing at times. Once you get the hang of it, it gets easier to use.

KAK reviewed v2.15.2614 rc4b on Mar 16, 2005

Nice application bud
some BUGS inside when using
NetRadio ERROR Playfile and
sometimes GX display ERROR Message and exit!
When i add a Favorite Who will GX it saved ?
I have not found a "Favoriten" Menu Hidden or not
implantated?

All in one "3"

Best Regards

pyridox reviewed v2.15.2603 RC4 on Feb 28, 2005

I think this program is turning out to be great. The author puts a lot of effort into the developement.

I know it's a lot to ask, but I hope the program remains free after the final release.

LRN reviewed v2.15.2603 RC4 on Feb 28, 2005

Free, a lot of functions and formats (each format support is done via separate dll or commandline utility), smooth GUI...Like BeSweet, but more powerful and handy. And still in developement!

ghammer reviewed v2.15.2599 RC3 on Feb 19, 2005

The is a very cool tool! It gets better and better with the developer actually listening to the users.

ds0934- The app itself isn't compressing anything, so blaming it for your lousy results is invalid. Look at the settings for whatever format youwere going to. Pilot error is the likely cause.

Give it a try. It's nicely done, free, and has continuing development. Pretty good attributes in my book!

WickedLester reviewed v2.15.2591 RC2a on Feb 16, 2005

Works great. I converted some of my WMA's to MP3 and the converted without any problems. Very fast also.

pyridox reviewed v2.15.2591 RC2a on Feb 14, 2005

First, I want to say thanks to the author for creating this program. There isn't many free programs out there of this type.

The only complaint that I have with this program is; The author needs to straighten out the English language module. Even though you select English, it still gives you warning messages in German. Also, the EULA (license agreement) is in German.

pyridox reviewed v2.15.2567 Beta 6 on Jan 28, 2005

The program is'nt that bad. It uses the LAME encoder for MP3. You will get loss with any program, if you uncompress & re-encode files. Like the old phrase; "Garbage in = Garbage Out".

ds0934 reviewed v2.15.2563 Beta 5 on Jan 24, 2005

I have no argument against that (losing quality) but the degree of loss is incredibly more significant than with other products I've used. That's my only point. I respect the effort put into this product, and I'm fully away it is "beta". But to ignore problems in "beta" versions just because they're said to be "beta" means that they risk not getting fixed either. That's the point of "beta": to test and submit discovered limitations and defects so they get fixed before final release.

ct@work reviewed v2.15.2560 Beta 4 on Jan 23, 2005

@gs0934 It's so stupit - converting compressed media to compressed media without lossing quality. You ever loss quality - it is not possible converting lossy to lossy without quality loss (also not with the descret cleaner).

The program is a little bit overload. Many function, a couple of smaller bugs - but is a beta. I love it.

ds0934 reviewed v2.15.2560 Beta 4 on Jan 22, 2005

After four successive beta releases "they" still have not improved the English/German issues, and the results I've managed to get from converting existing AVI files into MPG or WMV suck. I tried for 16 hours to get the output to look like the input, but it never would. Not impressed. Discreet Cleaner seems to do a much better job of converting media formats without losing quality.

BroughApps reviewed v2.15.2554 Beta 2 on Jan 22, 2005

MEH! love the program... but i'd rather it not start in german every time... i know how to change it to english. but for the sake of the not-so-big-brained folks out there.... please fix it

thanx

pyridox reviewed v2.15.2551 Beta on Jan 19, 2005

The only major problem I noticed is; Even though you select English language at the install, the program still starts up in German. You have to go into the top menu & manually select ENGLISH. Other than that, it seemed to work well. They just need to work out some minor issues. But these bugs can be expected in Beta versions.

BroughApps reviewed v2.15.2551 Beta on Jan 19, 2005

This is an awesome program! BUT you need to work on the glitches in the media player. Shuffle doesnt work right. and when you unclick one of the effects for it... it goes to the next track....

barnstapleuk reviewed v2.15.2551 Beta on Jan 19, 2005

Excellent Idea.
Just what I need.
But...
No where near enough stable. Just keep crashing. And as said before sometimes with randon german error messages.
Also regardless of selecting english at point of install, it insists everytime on starting up in german. When it works, and i could even get that far, i am sure it will be great.

Nice uninstaller though!

Peter van Hooven reviewed v2.14.2539 on Jan 17, 2005

Yes, nice software. But the GUI is a little unclearly - perhaps it overload the eyes of the user :-)

Bachalor reviewed v2.14.2539 on Jan 17, 2005

I'm stundent and I want say thank you for it. For my opinion it works fine and stable.

Dimmu19 reviewed v2.10.2503 RC1 on Dec 30, 2004

Great program but I keep getting green bars after I converted an avi to mpg. Anyone else have this problem or know of a fix for it? I really would like to convert all my avi files to mpg but the green bars make it almost unwatchable.

mtanner reviewed v2.10.2434 Beta 5 on Nov 25, 2004

After several times installing and uninstalling previous versions and thinking this program sucked I really like it now, especially the netplayer that allows me to record web radio streams into wavs, mp3, etc. Good job listening to user request and fixing earlier problems.

twynne reviewed v2.0.2222 RC2 on Sep 10, 2004

I've tried previous versions of this and never succeeded in getting it working at all. Tried visiting their forum but of course it's all in German so not very helpful for the rest of the world.

As for this version - same problems as reported by other users. Installed, selecting English, only to find it started in German. Yes, I managed to switch it to English, but you still get error messages in German.

Giving it a 2 as the premise and the interface are good, but as it's not even usable for video yet I can't really review it properly. I just get an error about DirectX...

Good luck!

cricri_pingouin reviewed v2.0.2183 Beta 9 on Aug 31, 2004

I'll rate the program as I've used it. So I installed it, no faults there. I run it and it's in German. I know that "Language"="Sprache" in German (that's about all I know!) so I turn it to English, and there I have a GUI all in English. No problem here as far as I could see. Then I decide to convert a file. So I drag and drop "Windows XP Startup.wav" to the interface, and no problem, it was there. I select as output format "MP3", prerss the green arrow, play the result, it works. Try to convert to OGG, it works. I drag the OGG, convert to APE, it works. I don't know what people whine about, but from this little 2 minutes test, it seems very good for free! No, I didn't try video, I understand some people have synch problems, but to be fair, I stopped fiddling with videos because I had synch problems even with commercial packages! Anyway, 5 stars here. Actually, I quickly converted a small DivX3 (ok, without sound) to both WMV and MPG, and albeit the WMV video was very large (I didn't bother checking options :p), both videos worked just fine.

TigerTou reviewed v2.00.1969 Beta 5 on Jul 23, 2004

Well, there now is a video conversion option. Too bad the audio and video are 3 seconds out-of-sync. Improving, but I would not pay yet.

guitardave78 reviewed v2.00.1969 Beta 5 on Jul 19, 2004

Remembering that this is a BETA of an already superb bit of software, i can see really good things.
The new interface is nice, a bit simpler than the first one. THe batch ability is still there which made the first one so good. There are loads of plugins on the site, which is how they have reduced the install file size.

But

This beta is quite unstable and will not let me drag and drop files that the original did . I will rate this a 3 as it does need some work...I will rate again when it is more stable. Keep it up as this will again be the best!!

TigerTou reviewed v2.00.1957 Beta on Jul 18, 2004

This is an audio application, not so pure and not so simple. We were not able to locate ANY video transcoder capabilities. The pictured GUI is not the one from the program. Notice that the pictured GUI indicates video conversion capabilities: none are available. All-in-all, not up to par. The mixture of German and English is very disconcerting. We downloaded the 257 & the 263 versions (5 and 10 M) with no difference video nor pictured GUI. When converting to MP3 from .WAV, the MP3 ran very fast, making the words indistinguishable. Try AUDACITY or dbPowerAmp music converter, both far superor and free.

Dapple reviewed v2.00.1957 Beta on Jul 17, 2004

Tried it , the language is only half in English and when I try and Transcode a file it crashes .

jogygeorge reviewed v2.00.1957 Beta on Jul 17, 2004

Wow! Thats one drastic cut in size. Its gotten from 17.xMB size to 5.x!

Does anyone know if its possible to transcode from mp3 to midi with this one?

Gave it a 5 as I don't want to distort figures without actually checking it out.

darkpepe reviewed v1.85.1325 on Jul 4, 2004

New Version available at
http://www.board-24.de/

Madlew reviewed v1.85.1325 on Jul 3, 2004

Has anybody been able to get to the homepage? I've been trying to read up on it for a few days and cant get there.

NEOBassDUDE reviewed v1.84.1315 on May 16, 2004

This program looks like it'd be REALLY nice... if it did something.

I'm trying to convert an avi file to mpeg2 file for burning to DVD. But it just sits there and does nothing!

In my search for support I found their website, which was half english and half german. Although its nice that they translate the news for the english speakers their forums are still completely in german. Due to lack of support I can't give this program a better score.

Its nicely designed though and looks flexible... just needs to do something.

ghammer reviewed v1.84.1307 on May 3, 2004

Very nice! Does an excellent job, easy to use.

darthbeads reviewed v1.84.1300 on Apr 29, 2004

Best audio transcoder I have found. And better yet...it's FREE!

L337JasE reviewed v1.84.1299 on Apr 26, 2004

I like kraut-software, especially when it's free, and even better as open-source

justun reviewed v1.84.1299 on Apr 26, 2004

yay! they fixed the mp3-cue cutter part of the program.. :D
this program has many handy features all in 1 program..

robmanic44 reviewed v1.84.1289 Beta on Apr 18, 2004

Did anyone notice that this is "beta" software. Yes, it does need some work, but that's why you release a beta version. This software does some really neat stuff. Just keep the developer informed of your problems and continue to support this work in progress.

IGx89 reviewed v1.82.1274 Beta on Apr 3, 2004

This is the only free app I've found that can convert from WMV to ANY other video codec! I haven't tested it out fully yet, but so far it appears to work great :)

ABCStore reviewed v1.80.1246 on Mar 14, 2004

Description seems to be misleading. I couldn't find a target for the AC3 format..

BerndBramm reviewed v1.80.1241 on Mar 11, 2004

A little bit slow but perfect.

ohmymy reviewed v1.80.1231 RC3 on Mar 3, 2004

after installation it loads his dll'd into explorer.exe
it starting time is definitely tooo long and I'm getting lots of errors (on startup). it looks impressive but I would look for more specialised tools.

Karin_Pleim reviewed v1.80.1195 RC2 on Feb 21, 2004

Great Freeware! Big Thx to the author.

Unhold reviewed v1.80.1188 RC1 on Feb 18, 2004

there's no file behind downloadlink...

Microshaft reviewed v1.80.1182 Beta 8 on Feb 13, 2004

Let's re-invent the wheel, then this software.

UdoReichert reviewed v1.80.1179 Beta 7 on Feb 6, 2004

Verry good. I had the same poblem with the mp3 - you need a lame encoder dll in the software directory (after a mail to the developer i know this).

BB88 reviewed v1.80.1179 Beta 7 on Feb 6, 2004

The program itself is very useful, and the formats are widely covered. However, as the user below mentioned, I got a zero-length mp3 files. :(

Berti7070 reviewed v1.80.1116 Beta 6 on Feb 3, 2004

Nice ! Good converter. You can convert simple by using drag&drop file from different locations or you can search and add them :). dbPowerAMP is good and simple - but not enough formats.

mrgrieves reviewed v1.80.1116 Beta 6 on Feb 3, 2004

Doesn't work for me - I've tried converting a few files to MP3 and each time they came out as zero bytes. Also, although the interface is mostly OK, it doesn't appear to allow me to convert files from more than one directory at once.

After reading the review from the_lord_almighty I tried dBpowerAMP Music Converter and it is MUCH better. You can use Windows search across all folders, just right click and convert. Took ages, but worked a treat!

AnthonyB reviewed v1.80.1116 Beta 6 on Jan 31, 2004

Biggest problem is that the English "version" is only about 50% English, 30% Genglish (Horrifically translated German to English obviously by a German that learnt high-school English), and 20% German (especially the error codes). Features-wise, the product looks awesome and once they get final bugs out and get decent translation this should get a 5/5.

Spaceking_67 reviewed v1.80.1116 Beta 6 on Jan 27, 2004

Good Freeware . need a little work ...

Delboy86 reviewed v1.80.1085 Beta 5 on Jan 18, 2004

Excellent piece of written software,nice interface and so easy to use..You never need another transcoder with this one ,so many file formats, This is a must have for all the music buffs.Get it!.Shouldn't think it will be long before it's out of Beta then it will cost..Some sections of the English ver need tidying but that is minor to what the programme does and the ease at which it does it .5*+ from

Einstein.James reviewed v1.80.1085 Beta 5 on Jan 18, 2004

use EINSTELLUNGEN and then SPRACHE to switch the language ...

phelix reviewed v1.80.1085 Beta 5 on Jan 18, 2004

immediately got an error while trying to play a file in the player, and low and behold, its in german. like i could understand it?! i dont know how to get rid of the window now.. crap.

spain9001 reviewed v1.70.870 on Jan 11, 2004

like this.

pain1711 reviewed v1.70.870 on Jan 10, 2004

good - clean interface and more formats as ever other.

the_lord_almighty reviewed v1.70.870 on Jan 10, 2004

I could never seem to get this one working. A while back I switched to dBpowerAMP Music Converter and see no reason to use anything else. dBpowerAMP Music Converter is HIGHLY recommended over this, for ease of use and overall quality.

^L^ reviewed v1.60.807 on Nov 22, 2003

Fine Tool! Gute Soundqualität.

regards ^L^

noVuz reviewed v1.60.807 on Nov 22, 2003

nearly perfect!

Itan2003 reviewed v1.40.702 on Oct 2, 2003

Excellent !!

Bachalor reviewed v1.29.645 on Jul 29, 2003

Sehr guter Encoder - multilingual. Thx tothe author, that this software is free.

Ich-2007 reviewed v1.29.643 on Jul 21, 2003

I'am impressed from the supported formats! A must have.

sHuddle reviewed v1.27.606 on Jun 22, 2003

A long time ago - but the encoder will week for week better.

Andreas.Leitz reviewed v1.20.554 Beta on May 22, 2003

Monkeys Audio is supported for encoding and decoding. FLAC will supported in the future. You can read on the authors page. Program is usefull and stable. The only ugly thing is the wma codecs must downloaded and installed :(

turtle40 reviewed v1.20.554 Beta on May 22, 2003

no lossless compression in this program? no flac, no shn, no monkeys audio...are there plugins for it that will support these formats, such as with media players like foobar2000

Dirk van Hoofen reviewed v1.10.523 on Apr 27, 2003

The best tool, if you must or want convert files to 'exotic' formats. I haven't seen any program to this day yet, that can work on something so much Soundformate.
Good work !

PeterKoller reviewed v1.10.514 Beta on Mar 25, 2003

Nice transcoder. Tray it - have some little bug - but works fine.

Thunder7000 reviewed v0.90.372 RC1 on Mar 9, 2003

"Windowstitle: GLJ122.tmp " this is a setup error. I think this comes from the setup and not from the program. try to use the other setup - on the site two version of the setup.

Qlib reviewed v0.90.372 RC1 on Mar 8, 2003

I tried a version from a couple of months ago and it worked fine.. but now all I get is:

Windowstitle: GLJ122.tmp Entry Point Not Found
Windowstext: The procedure entry point WMCreateWrite could not be located in the dynamic link library WMCore.DLL

Not sure what this is.. it complains about WindowsMedia codecs when I try to run it and hangs with a splashscreen. I have installed the windowsmedia codecs for 8 and 9.... dunno really what else to try.. any suggestions?

The_Ripper reviewed v0.10.342a Beta on Feb 22, 2003

Has potential,but very buggy at this stage and the problem is not between the keyboard and the chair;)
Video plug-in works great though.

Andreas.Leitz reviewed v0.10.342a Beta on Feb 22, 2003

Verry good! Taste it.

Thunder7000 reviewed v0.10.342a Beta on Feb 22, 2003

What is SHN? You can record live streams zu wav and other formats.

emilne1 reviewed v0.10.342a Beta on Feb 21, 2003

No support for shn files - boo hiss from the live music trading community.

Themos7000 reviewed v0.9.334a Beta on Feb 16, 2003

Verry nice tool! The ripper is not fast - but rip to mp3, ogg and wma. Test it!!

Dirk van Hoofen reviewed v0.9.321 Beta on Feb 2, 2003

The tool goes better and better. Now I see tha included a RIPPER - but here are little "bugs" if i change the CD.

ODS2003 reviewed v0.9.199 Beta on Jan 16, 2003

Verry good ! Add only monkey audio - and then the tool is perfect.

Dirk van Hoofen reviewed v0.9.199 Beta on Jan 15, 2003

The GUI was better. This ENCODER was that, what I for a long time search. He can convert ALL files, that I know. SUPER TOOL

Agnes99 reviewed v0.9.188 Beta on Jan 12, 2003

The function : OK. The GUI will be better later - i hope ;).

Klaus2003 reviewed v0.9.188 Beta on Jan 12, 2003

I love it.

sHuddle reviewed v0.9.188 Beta on Jan 10, 2003

The program is clean and the functions are verry good. I think - it is excellent. And the best - it is freeware !

donpacman reviewed v0.9.171 Beta on Jan 4, 2003

Excellent

Dirk van Hoofen reviewed v0.9.171 Beta on Jan 4, 2003

Very good decoder for my private work - I suspect, that this ENCODER was a lot of hard progammer work. Thanks for this freeware - this Encoder can ALL files, they I know.