Sound Grinder™ 3.2, now 100% native for Intel® and PowerPC®, provides another significant step forward in providing a fast, efficient, and rock solid conversion utility to meet the daily rigors of production.
Sound Grinder provides many features that help relieve the frustrations of processing audio assets. With advanced programming and well thought through processing, we are confident that you will find Sound Grinder to be the fastest, most efficient, and rock solid conversion utility you have ever used.
What's New?
Universal Binary Support
Sound Grinder is now a Universal Binary running 100% native on both Intel and PowerPC microprocessors.
Enhanced Metadata Handling
Sound Grinder now provides support for even more types of metadata for more types of files, including reading and writing the full suite of ID3 tags in AIFF, WAVE and MP3 files. Metadata can now be displayed not only in the "File Info" pane, but also in the main "File List". Every metadata item can be edited for single or multiple assets by simply OPTION+clicking the edit field. Specific metadata items can be pre-filled for export in the new Metadata Tab in the conversion settings.
Enhanced Quicktime Format Support
Sound Grinder has been updated to take full advantage of all audio formats supported by the Apple® Quicktime™ architecture. This includes the ability to read files through Quicktime components such as the Flip4Mac® Windows Media® component, and others.
Support for Droplets
Sound Grinder now includes a new workflow option called Droplets, which provides an even simpler, yet more powerful way of converting audio. Set up your conversion settings, choose "Create Droplet..." from the Preset Action menu and save the Droplet to any location. Now when you drag any file(s)/folder(s) to the saved droplet icon, Sound Grinder will process those files instantly using your specified settings.
Under-the-Hood Enhancements and Bug Fixes
Sound Grinder has been significantly upgraded to support the latest OS X technologies with a corresponding enhanced visual look.
Fast, Efficient and Rock-Solid
Any conversion process is frustrating if it is slow, cumbersome and unstable. Therefore Sound Grinder is built with solid engineering, providing a substantial level of efficiency and stability, saving you valuable time and resources. It is built around a "one-window" concept which provides the ability to perform multiple conversions simultaneously. Sound Grinder also offers excellent features and support for many of the most popular file formats. Click here for the complete list of supported formats and codecs.
Sound Grinder provides many other time saving features including; Rapid Convert providing the ability to quickly process files directly from within the Mac OS X Finder; the retention of the folder structure of the source files; saved presets to recall your favorite settings; previewing of movie files and more.
Next Steps
Whether you are an industry professional, an up-and-coming audio engineer, or someone looking for a great way to convert audio files, you owe it to yourself to check out all that Sound Grinder has to offer. Download our 15 day full-featured demo and try out the time-saving features and high quality conversion of Sound Grinder.
At any time, you may purchase Sound Grinder for only $39 directly within the application or buy using our online web store. A free upgrade is available to existing customers who purchased Sound Grinder on or after March 31st, 2007. Registered users who purchased Sound Grinder on March 30th, 2007 and earlier may be eligible for discount pricing. Registered users can obtain their upgrade pricing by clicking the "Buy" button at the launch of Sound Grinder 3.2.
Customer Reviews |
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"Audio batch-conversions have become a daily requirement in a world of different bit and sampling rates. Sound Grinder is the best tool I have found for this task - combining reliability, quality and speed."
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"Sound Grinder is a great app... I use it all the time. Converting a one hour show to be compatible with half-a-dozen different content distributors is a hassle... but not so now. Thanks for the simple yet practical application."
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"Sound Grinder is fantastic!... Just wanted to drop you guys a line and tell you how great I think Sound Grinder is - I work in the Mobile industry and deal with a ton of ringtone formatting. Often we need to reformat entire collections of files, and Sound Grinder is not only lightning fast, but the BEST feature is that we can retain our original folder structure, saving hours of time. Thanks guys - again, nice work." |
| Supported Formats |
Interleaved and split-stereo formats supported for all file types. * Requires 3rd party plugin. |
| System Requirements |
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OSX 10.3.x or greater Quicktime 6.4 or greater (Quicktime 6.5 is required for AMR Narrowband support) (Quicktime 6.5.1 is required for Apple Lossless support) 800 x 600 screen resolution |