ALL-IN-ONE audio converter & cd ripper/audiograbber that rips Audio CDs and converts music files.Comments on:

By: HappyHal

HappyHal — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:26:29 +0000

#27 and #32 -

I had the same problem with Windows Explorer and Explorer Plus – crashing when right clicking on a folder. Tracked it down just as you did to the Context Menu Shell Extension. I should have read your comments! It took several days of noticing the problem to sleuth it out!

By: Dangerdann

Dangerdann — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:31:57 +0000

XP users beware! After installing this program I began having problems with Windows Explorer (and other programs) crashing when trying to Right Click or selecting certain menu items. Downloaded ShellExView from cnet.com and used it to isolate and eventually figure out that you need to disable the Audio Transcoder program’s ‘Context Menu Shell Extension’ to get Windows Explorer running proper again. A real pain! Haven’t played with Audio Transcoder enough since to see if it is crippled as a result but saw others had similar issues and this is the fix I wish I could have found! Hope this helps… keep up the good work GAOTD!

By: Fubar

Fubar — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:59:50 +0000

#3, TK, they faked you out (and all the people who gave your comment a thumbs-up). You need better installation tracing software. They created that key, it’s not Microsoft’s. Actually, I thought it was rather clever, it certainly fooled you. The real key is prefaced by Software.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:51:11 +0000

It froze my desktop on Windows 7 . There was no way of getting rid of the freeze until I uninstalled

By: Saetana

Saetana — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:11:10 +0000

Does anyone know if this program is likely to “take over” from Windows Media Player 11 (as some of these things have a nasty habit of doing) as I am only interested in it as a converter (MP3 to WMA)? I don’t want the thing making itself my default music player.

By: angie

angie — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:41:27 +0000

I need to convert Audio files in the .ACT format, from a Taiwanese MP3 player and recorder. Anybody know of a program that will do that ??

I realize the .act format is not too common outside of China, and I am a bit concerned about downloading malware.

But I have several conference sessions recorded in the device’s format — the program included with the device seems aimed at Win 3.1 or Win 95 and doesn’t work under XP or Vista.

By: profman

profman — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:53:52 +0000

Audio Transcoder installed and activated fine on XP SP3, but caused my file manager (Powerdesk Pro 7) to crash when attempting to move files from one window to another. Powerdesk stopped crashing after uninstallation of Audio Transcoder. Too bad.

By: Amnon

Amnon — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:25:28 +0000

Installed on Win7 64 bits and it works

By: Golan

Golan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:09:28 +0000

Format Factory is the other transcoder you’ll ever really need but for best quality i still prefer BeSweet for audio :D

By: Ant

Ant — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:58:46 +0000

Can it handle DRMs?