Misc. Multimedia Tools

SRS Audio Sandbox is an audio enhancement software that will produce deeper and richer audio playback from your flimsy laptop, monitor or PC speakers. It uses the same state-of-the-art audio enhancement technology found in many hardware products and automatically configures your PC and soundcard to work with the software. You can customize the sound profiles based on your type of speakers (or headphones) and playback content (music, movie, game, voice) and also adjust surround sound effects, bass, speaker size simulation and several other criteria to tweak the sound to your personal preference. Easy to use, astonishing results!

KoolMoves is a web animation software that creates Flash movies and frames for animated gifs. It offers fully-featured drawing tools as well as the ability to import SWF Flash Movie files, FLV Flash Video files, vector clipart, MP3 and wav audio. KoolMoves can be used to create navigation systems, splash pages, flying logos, text effects, character animation, transition effects, drop shadows and much more. Shape fills include color gradient and bitmap. You can select from libraries of 67 action script based text effects, 28 web interfaces, 259 clip art items, 13 animated clip art movies, 70 buttons specially designed for Flash movies and more than 100 text effects templates. KoolMoves makes it easy to create a Flash movie - all you need is an idea. The program was designed by a professional animator to deliver powerful functionality with an easy to use interface.

OtsDJ is a professional dual-deck media player, designed for DJs, radio stations, background music or personal party entertainment. It offers enhanced sound features, volume management, integrated dynamics processor, automated mixing, virtual scratch effects, hourly and daily scheduling and song cues. The program can import your audio files into it`s searchable media library which allows you to quickly access songs by clicking on genre buttons. Other features include playback logs, playlists, album cover display (if available), AutoDJ, visual effects and more. OtsDJ also includes a remote access server that lets you control the main features from any browser on your network.

PPT To Flash Studio Professional enables you to convert PowerPoint files into full featured Flash presentations with optional audio and video enhancements. You can choose between different viewer styles, add transition effects, include author bio and company logo and even insert objects or voice narration using the supplied Flash editor. With the help of the Flash editor you can also create interactive quizzes that requires answers or actions from the user. The finished product can be published to .swf file, standalone EXE viewer, DVD/CD with customizable splash scree or uploaded to an FTP server.

SoundEdit Pro is a digital audio editor, suited for home studio recording and also for people who are just getting started with audio editing. It provides an intuitive, easy-to-use interface and offers dozens of amazing audio effects and tools for converting audio files into different formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis and many others. SoundEdit Pro also includes the possibility to directly load audio tracks! It ofers powerful editing features, audio effects and processes including: Cut, Paste, Move, Delete, Fadein/Out , Crossfade, Vibrato, Delay, Normalize, Fade, Flanger, Amplify, Invert, Insert Silence, and more. SoundEdit Pro supports a wide range of audio formats, such as WAV, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis, AudioTracks, Dialogic VOX, and MP3 - use it to take your web media, PowerPoint presentations, Flash animations or any other sound enhanced media to the next level. The program comes with a nicely designed, modern interface that allows you to edit your music with the help of the visual sound display.

AudioStreamer enables you to receive and record radio stations from the web. You can listen to thousands of radio stations on the internet, and record them whenever you want. The radio stations are organized by genre and bandwidth for easy browsing. The built in recording library allows you to view, organize and replay all your recordings. Additional features include an option to automatically organize downloaded files by artist name and genre, links to the radio stations and song history.

Ringtone Media Studio allows you to convert audio, images and video and transfer them to your cell phone without the need for any cables or Bluetooth. It includes a database of popular cell phone models and can automatically adjust the media to properly fit your phone. You can use the program to personalize your cell phone with ringtones, wallpaper, screensavers and video clips, using your own media files. Ringtone Media Studio includes editing tools to perform basic image editing, apply effects, fade audio tracks, record voice messages, edit video files and more. The results can be transferred directly to your phone via SMS, or (if available) via Bluetooth, infrared or cell phone data cable. The registered version also provides access to thousands of ready-to-use ringtones, images and videos.

Smart Audio Converter is an easy to use audio converter that allows you to batch convert audio files between many popular audio formats including MP3, WAV, WMA, AC3, MPEG, OGG, MP2, MPC, RAW audio, VOX, MPC, G.726, G.723, G.721, AIFF and AU. Just select the files to convert, choose an output format, and click the Convert button. The program also format specific settings to customize the output quality.

AudioStreamer Pro enables you to record streaming audio from thousands of radio stations that are currently available (for free) on the internet. You can record up to 8 streams simultaneously, and automatically split recordings into individual tracks. A built-in recording library enables you to manage all your recorded audio files and create playlists from selected songs. AudioStreamer Pro comes bundled with several additional tools, including an audio editor, a CD ripper, a burner software to create AudioCDs from your recordings, and an audio converter for WAV/WMA, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis conversions.

CATraxx is a database program to catalog and manage your music collection. You can catalog all media types, including CDs, LPs, cassettes, mini discs, and MP3s. CATraxx supports CDDB to download the CD data (artist, title, label, release year, song titles, etc.) from the Internet. You can search your database with any combination of data fields and operators. Other features include a report designer and more than 100 pre-defined reports that can be printed or saved in a variety of file formats. In addition, the built-in loan module lets you keep track of albums that you have loaned to friends, and the statistics module allows you to analyze your collection in a variety of ways.

MagicMedia is an easy to use thumbnail explorer to browse, manage, play and edit multimedia files on your local, network, and removable drives. It can be used to catalog and organize your collection of images, movies, and music. Simply point to the directory containing your files, decide if you want to include subdirectories, and MagicMedia will create thumbnails and a catalog of all of your photos, video, and audio files. The program supports more than 30 image formats, as well as all popular video and music formats. It also offers Fastfind file browsing of your thumbnails, search for keywords in the file names, mixed-media playlists for convenient slide shows, movie series, or audio arrangements. In addition, it includes editing capabilities for changing contrast, hue, saturation, size, and many more attributes of your photos or video clips. The built in video editor lets you cut and join movies of different sizes, formats, and frame rates - very useful to create rough cuts of video projects. You can extract, display, and save individual movie frames as well. The additional audio editor makes it easy to convert Audio files to Wav or MP3 format and arrange tracks for burning a custom AudioCD-ROM.

Multimedia Manager is an all-in-one multimedia software that lets you view, play and manage your multimedia files in style. It supports many popular graphics and multimedia formats such as BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF, TGA, PCX, PCD, PSD, ICO, WPG, WMF, MID, WAV, RMI, AVI, MOV, ANI, etc. The program features a fast and high quality image decoding/encoding engine, that allows you to stretch, tile, flip, rotate, resize, zoom, or print any image easily. Some other features are drag`n drop support, clipboard support, file management capabilities, list box feature, wallpaper support, full ZIP support, batch image conversion, advanced slide show feature, image manipulation support (blur, mosaic, oil paint, spray, sharpen, soften, wave, half tone, and much more...), and many others.

SpectraScope is a spectrum analyzer for the professional audio engineer, or casual hi-fi enthusiast. It features an overlay window, with which you can save up to 4 different plots and write them back to the plot window at a later time for easy comparisons. SpectraScope supports up to 48kHz/24-Bit performance drag and drop for long-term spectrum analysis of multiple wave files. You can save plots in bitmap, jpg, or png image or capture image and data to the windows clipboard. Additional features include 4 modes of analysis, 8 different windows, user-selectable fft size, adjustable amplitude range from 20 to 200 dBv and more. The program can use direct input from WAV files or capture any sound via soundcard.

Karaoke DVD Burner enables you to create karaoke DVDs from CD+G discs and MP3+G files. You can import songs directly from a CD+G disk or from local MP3+G files, and the program will automatically convert them to the proper format and burn a DVD that can be played on your TV. The DVD will play the audio and display synchronized lyrics on the screen. Other features include an option to customize the DVD navigation menu, saving of compilations for repeated burning, export of song lists to text/XML and CD look-up via the freedb.org database.

Smart Audio Burner is an easy to use software to create standard Audio CDs from your MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG music files. The program automatically converts your files and burns them to a CD that can be played in any home or car CD player. Just select the files to be included and click the burn button - there are no other configurations needed (nor available).

PlayerPal enables you to remotely control iTunes or Windows Media Player from any web browser on your network. You can browse and search your music collection, create playlists, control standard playback functionalities and more. The program automatically gathers all titles from your player database and organizes them based on ID3 tag information. It displays cover art (if available) as well as additional file information along with the artist name. PlayerPal offers a choice of interface skins, optimized for different devices - an iTunes-like browser interface, and two smaller interfaces for PSP or PDA access. The program is easy to install and does not require any technical expertise to get it up and running.

Flash EXE Builder enables you to create standalone Windows applications from your Flash (.swf) files. The applications can have a custom splash screen, watermarks, background music, About Box, and even a trial period for shareware distribution. You can choose from several Flash player designs or use your own bitmaps as player background. Flash EXE Builder can publish your Flash as standalone EXE file, screensaver, or as AutoRun CD/DVD - with complete installer. Other features include options to include a help file, serial number generation, integrated FTP upload and more.

Axogon Mutator enables you to create video backgrounds in various colors and complexities. You can start with randomly generate backgrounds using all or combinations of RGB colors and then select a background and further mutate it to achieve a variety of similar background effects. The background video can be of any duration and framerate, and exported as AVI video in different resolutions, using any codec installed on your system. Axogon Mutator is useful to create backgrounds for DVD menus and other applications that can take advantage of video backgrounds.

Automuter is a simple application that allows you to automatically mute your speakers during a specific time (e.g. at night), when your screensaver is running, or when your computer is locked. You can also set a hotkey to quickly mute your PC at any time. Useful if you keep your computer running 24/7 but don't want to be disturbed by sound notifications or other audible alerts at certain times.

PassMark SoundCheck enables you to test your PC sound card, speakers and microphone. You can verify that your sound card can record and playback sounds at various audio sample rates, check speaker performance with different frequencies and create test tones to check for sound distortions. The program supports 8, 16 and 24bit stereo/mono recording and playback and offers real-time spectrum and waveform displays.

Reallusion CrazyTalk PRO enables you to transform photos and images into talking animated characters and bring them to life with real-time puppeteering. The program uses a combination of image morphing an animation effects that allows you to turn any portrait into a speaking character animation. You can use photos, images or illustrations and choose from a variety of ready-to-use facial expression or modify the presets to create your own expressions. Reallusion CrazyTalk PRO features automatic lip-sync animation from audio and typed text, so all you have to do is record or supply the audio that you want to use for the character and the program will do most of the rest. Other features include support for comic style speech bubbles, detailed expression editing, special effects, camera movements, and more. The results can be exported in Flash, MPEG-4, NTSC, PAL and HD format, as well as other formats optimized for mobile devices or YouTube upload.