thank you, works great!

Would it be too much to ask for you to run that 'Advanced Biorythm' again? Please? Thanks for all you guys n gals do!

I actually found this software kind of fun to play with. I only have 620 songs. I used several tools: Incomplete Tagger, Lister, Duplicate Finder,Jukebox,Quality Analysis. All worked quickly and as advertised. My only complaint: While the Jukebox is playing, I can not minimize the main AudioGrail window (the Jukebox window can be minimized).

My system is an older laptop (P4, 2.5 GHz, 1.5GB memory, XP Home).

#19;

You need to look out for a free spell checking program!

i say this program isnt useful to me i followed other peoples advice and tried other ones listed above and settled on tunebite. thanks anyways GAOTD it's been a real snooze fest.

Yes, try media monkey - a media player that comes standard with these functions.

To answer comment #43.......An MP3 player that will hold 1000 tunes in the MP3 format will hold almost 2000 tunes if converted to WMA. Thats's a big difference! Also, there are many "freeware" converters that can do the job quickly! Yes, there should be a difference in quality, but my ear(s) don't notice it....

Bladetoths review shows there are plenty other softwares on the market which are both more performant and which are free. I'm having a look into these.

OMG! My quest for the Holy Audio Grail is over! The perfect thing for converting campaign speeches over to a format my colegues can study. My GOD! Where was this when I first entered the race.

2-SHEDS '08

I tried this program. It doesn't do a lot of good for me. I hope others find it useful.

I haven't downloaded this, because I read BladedThoth's review and it appears that the functions this software performs are done better by either the free or paid version of MediaMonkey, which comes in free or paid versions.

Can anyone explain why one would convert from MP3 to WMA ? Seems like a tremendous waste of time to convert from one compressed format to another. Not only is the space you gain minimal, you're lsoing much more quality than you would if you just went from WAV to WMA. As for the siftware itself I downloaded it from http://www.majorgeeks.com/ ages ago and the difference between the freeware version and the full version is minimal. All-in-All I do like the software.

Audiograil seems to have a lot of cool and useful features, but I find the user interface unpractical and not intuitive. I find it hard to find my way in the program's features. I personally prefer media monkey, which is a great piece of freeware for managing audio files, tagging,...

AudioGrail has been around for a long time. It's a mature program and I downloaded it without thinking twice. Thank you for this!

Tested the incomplete Tag function and it was terrible. Listed songs that were fully tagged with those that were not. The tag editor by default makes tag lines with all caps...first character should be in caps, not all characters. Browsed through the other functions and I was very hesitant to allow any changes. I will stick with Tag&Rename editor and Phelix duplicate finder.

Not another audio converter. hey GAOTD how about a anything to anything video and audio converter that would be Sweet!!!

Just a suggestion...

No worries #35. I'll pop into the forums to check out how it works! Thanks for following up.

Cheers!

Obviously gone through a few changes, recently.

worth looking here and note post No 35.

http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php?p=800382

Nothing sinister but thought I'd mention it.

RE: Cheryl B et al
It's not the interface that is at issue for language; rather the ability to read ISO codes in tags based on header coding. All it gives me is gibberish. EZCDDA already gives me gibberish just fine. IT'S GREAT AT FINDING FILES; EPICALLY DUPLICATES, but if it can't support non-standard files it may be more trouble than it's worth. That's all I was pointing out.
Wasn't complaining; just mentioning for those who are like me and listen to a wide range of music in more than one language. There are other programs out there (for a price) that really CAN do all the things that are missing from this one.

I WORK FOR KC SOFTWARES, DEVELOPPER OF AUDIOGRAIL

To SmoothPower, Doug and BladedThoth : Thank you for these exellent reviews ! This gave us lots of feedback and most of your remarks have been logged in our Bug tracker ( http://kcsofts.dyndns.org/mantis )

Concerning the forum ( http://www.kcsoftwares.com/forum/ ) : it is been "flushed" very recently due to spammer s abuse but please come and give you feedback there is order to "rebuild" the forum activity with us !

Thank you everyone

"Unzip the package you've downloaded, and carefully read the instructions which you can find in the readme.txt file."
What readme file? There isn't one. This isn't free because it's telling me it's the demonstration version! Grrrrrr
I knew it was too good to be true. :-((

This is a goo dprogram and can hold its own when compared against some of the other siilar softwares out there.
however!
There are a number of freeware alternatives that actually have MANY MORe and better executed features.
I highly recommend anyone looking for a MP3 tagging program to check out mp3tag studio, google for it and download the free version, it is brilliant and has such an inuitive interface.
I find this program has one of the most convoluted and strangely set out interfaces of anything I have tried. It is set up to open almost like a windows 'control panel' look, a window with lots of large icons there and you are supposed to select which task you are wanting to do for each time you use it.
I find it confusing and it slows down my plans for mass multi tagging and renaming!
Also I am99.9% sure that GOTD has ALREADY given this software away...otherwise I would not have already tried it!
I won't insult the site authors though, thanks for another program and it will no doubt be good for some people.
I recommend people DO TRY IT.
Like I said, it has many features and stacks up well next to similar programs so don't just assume it is no good based on some of the bad mouthing going on on this page!

Hello all! Today's 15-Minute Review is up! Check it out!

http://www.bladedthoth.com/reviews/15mrs/audiograil-v6-9-4-141/

Nope, it is only the demonstration version. Not free. And no way to unlock it.

WARNING....The ad For Couponds, Avast picked up a Trojan in the download for their coupond printer.

Enough Music player and converter software has been presented. They are almost all alike.

Only loads 999 files at once. That is not good for people who have more than that.

Doesn't sound useful at all.

Another great program.....

I had converted all of my MP3 files to WMA to conserve space. If anyone else has done that, don't bother with this program. It won't work!

No, the software was not free. No activation asked and it is good for the next 30 songs only! Sorry, it was just a waste of time to download this 'free' software.

This is my first software review so go easy on me.
After a 30 second download I installed AudioGrail on my pc with no problems. I ran the activation file first, then the setup file.
The 1st run of the program resulted in 100 percent CPU usage and 1.4 GB PF usage, after the program finished opening it went down to 20 percent CPU and 1.12 PF usage. My PC is pretty plain, Compaq Desktop. OS: XP Media Center Edition 2005; Processor: AMD Athlon 64; Ram: 1 GB; HD: 250 GB. After the PC recovered I clicked the Help button which resulted in the CPU maxing out again then a minute later the on-line help file opened. Help file is very disappointing, several topics displayed but only 4 out of the 11 topics work. They also have a link to their forum, don’t bother, zero posts.
Since I was unable to find any help files I decided to try to fumble my way through it, the interface seems very inviting. I opened Explorer and searched my PC for *.mp3. The search resulted in 4,570 files, I then sorted them by size and deleted everything that looked like junk, then select all the remaining files and drug them to the large window that said drag & drop files here. CPU usage jumped to 60 percent, PF usage stayed the same. This process took almost a full 7 minutes. At 3 minutes 15 seconds the CPU dropped to 23 percent for 1 minute 17 seconds, then jumped back up to 64 percent; the progress meter reflected that we were half way done, and it proved to be very accurate. After going through all this it appears that the scan button would have done all this in one step if the help file would have been useful as you would expect from a paid for program.
Clicking the files button display the actual location of the files on your hard drive, but the window only has an up and down scroll bar and is not resizable, if you’re like me your music files are 4 folders deep or more, on most of the files I was unable to see anything other than part of the path. It also has 3 buttons at the bottom of the file list; Close, Remove, and Reset. I was only brave enough to click the close button and it closed the window as expected. The next button on the main interface is Statistics, which informed me that AudioGrail contained links to 2344 files totaling 8.6 GB with a duration of 139:08:29. The information bar at the bottom of the window indicates that there are 755 Artists; 1085 Albums; 2344 songs; and 2344 files. While I do have some albums that I didn’t convert all the songs to MP3’s I would guess that the majority of them are converted. I don’t understand why the number of songs and the number of files are the same. Some of the albums are not split into individual songs so that should have at least resulted in a variation of the number of files.

There are 18 more buttons in the Tools section, who knows which I should click next, even the help file can’t tell me. I decided to watch the 4 working instructional files; they are a recorded flash type demo of how to perform 4 tasks. None of them showed how to import album data that I was to lazy to enter when I converted my CD’s to MP3’s. I do recommend that you watch the files before starting, none of them have more than a dozen files at any time in the file window. My 2344 files may lock it up. I decided to select a song and click the play tool, nothing happened. A right click on the song brings up a menu where I can select play… doing so opens the file in media player and starts playing. I closed media player and selected the song again, double clicked the play button this time and a Play list selection box opened, I selected Strait, the iTunes opened displaying all 2344 songs and began playing them. I left the program running on the PC and decided I would try some of the other options later, maybe after I get some sleep. If so I will post later. I would recommend downloading this program, it seems to have a lot of useful options.

yet another audio converter :(

Downloaded quickly. Unzipping went fine. Activation went fine. Setup was quick and easy. Email link works fine. Website link works fine.

If you want to access the developerr's forum for some tips and tricks and maybe help from other users, you'll be a bit disappointed.
Forums link works fine, however, there are no threads and no replies. Either this forum has just been created or it has simply never been active.

Going to the "Help" screen leads you to web-based help. Interestingly enough, only four topics are available. The other topics were greyed
out.

The topics that were indeed available lead to a simply performed flash-based demo of that subject.

Incomplete Tags Finder function:
When in the Tags Finder function, I noted that the mouse wheel was connected to previous or next mp3 regardless of which field had focus. As a result, when the user scrolls down a list of possible albums or artists, a dialogue box appears asking if I want to save changes. Presented with either yes or no, either one completes the current entry and moves the process on to the next entry in the mp3 list. I would suggest a cancel button be incorporated here to allow the user to return to an incomplete entry. The mouse wheel action shouldn't be tied exclusively to scrolling through all listed mp3s. Instead, the field that has focus should have its own scrolling function.

I like the automatic identification (FreeDB) feature. With a song that only had Aerosmith in the artist tag, I was able to find all Aerosmith albums and all songs on each of the albums through this feature. Granted it's not 'automatic' . I still had to go through a bit of struggle to identify the actual track and album. But this feature is a great time-saving shortcut. Two clicks and the information is saved right to the tags for this track.

Tag Editor:
Works just fine. Still has the weird assignment of the mouse wheel that scrolls through the mp3s instead of the field.

Duplicate finder:
Was very helful. Cleaned up over 100 duplicate files on this computer among 5 separate user accounts.

Cleaner:
I found the cleaner function quite helpful. I really detest how my MP3 tags and filenames end up in mixed case or with too many spaces between words. The cleaner function cleaned up my modest collection of 1200 mp3s automatically and quickly.

I rate this software a 7 out of 10. What it claims to do, it does. The user interface is quirky. Help files are sparse. I'll hang onto this one and use it until I find something that is more smoothly written. Thanks GOTD!

Cheers!

Rob

Nice audio converter, but I prefer Tunebite Platinum, it can not only help you edit audio info. but also help you remove the DRM protected from your purchased music, so you can enjoy your itunes muisc on all the player.

I don´t understand why some people complane,what isn´t usefull for you ,it can be for others.
You can complane when you have pay for it.
If you don´t like it, don´t install it.

DON´T FORGET IT IS FREE.

Note to Lostinlodos: Try link below, the programmer is Russian so the interface is in Russian as well as English (not sure about the other languages.) So I would think it would support those characters.

Try this if you like, but I use TagScanner: http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm

TagScanner is free and works VERY WELL to rename files (lots of customizable options) and fix tags automatically and manually.

Ok, and so can Windows Media Player too...

(Yawns) then scratches a bit. Thanks anyway GAOTD

Well if the site and it's demos are anything to judge this software by then I shall happily give it a miss.

It looks and feels like an offering by a schoolboy rather than a professional company. I shall not be trusting this software with the renaming or manipulation of my files, thank you.

Thanks anyway, GAOTD.

Looks quite good, I find the duplicate files finder especially useful!

Thanks again

You failed again to post anything useful to this site. Please get it together. This site is getting to be very, very disappointing.

It's not great, but it's not terrible. For those looking for a strong full-feature program; what are you doing here. ;) Honestly; the best thing I like about it is that it has a clean DATED interface |(if it's not broke; don't fix it). beyond that, it can't convert between files and it DOES NOT SUPPORT ASIAN/CYRILLIC/PERSIAN languages. Since 90% of my collection is not in Latin letters, it can't help me.

nope ,this soft is no use for me and the same could no doubt be said about 75% of visitors to this site...why is it that i always want the stuff i have already missed out on ? AAARRGGHH..fgor somink usefull:o................

I'm rather disappointed with the lack of proper Unicode support in the tag editor. As I have a large number of non-Latin titles and artist names in my music collection, the program is thus of very limited use to me.

Im sorry,
But how many audio tools does the world need?!?
There all the same!
Every developer that learns a simple algorithim decides to build some small tool and try to sell it... try making something usefull ppl!!!

Helium Music Manager 2007 is better

No conversion? No thanks :) - what's the point in supporting so many formats if you can't convert between them?

now about K-ML, sounds interesting....

Can sumbody tell me wat timezone this is in, its 3 am over here in MTL.