I’ve published a new version of media.io today that has several new features.

New Features

• You can send anyone a link to download a file you’ve converted. Many people suggested I add this. The download link is valid for 30 minutes.
• After downloading your converted audio files, you can start over. This way, files you have already downloaded will not show up again. Again, I’ve been asked to do this.
• You can see which file extensions are supported, in addition to the maximum file size. This was something that might have annoyed one or two people so I implemented it.
• There are now buttons to link to media.io If you have a site and would like to promote media.io, I’ve prepared some banners for you. Enjoy.

GUI Changes

In addition to these new features, I have implemented one or two subtle changes to the GUI. It’s now all white, as well as having Verdana as the body font which I find more legible than Arial. As usual, you will find screenshots of media.io “before” and “after” below.

Bug Fix

One thing I’m very excited about is a seemingly tiny problem I found a while ago and that I solved the same day. Fixing this bug has decreased audio conversion error rates by absolute 2.76 %, relative 38.48 %. For five lines of code changes, this is awesome.

As always, I hope you enjoy converting MP3 to WAV online and all the other file formats at media.io.

(download)

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New_features_new_GUI_and_now_e.zip (56 KB)

Right now, I am working on making media.io easier to use. The first area I'm concentrating on is the file upload. I don’t have the numbers yet but occasionally people upload a file and never start the conversion, which tells me the process isn’t easy enough.

Popularity

The second thing I’d like to mention is that media.io receives more and more visitors every day, without me doing a lot of promotion. I generally don’t like to show traffic numbers because there’s always someone who has more than you, but I like where this is going.

Testing, 1, 2, 3

Also, I’m running a test on media.io right now. What I’d like to find out is which combination of the attached buttons gets most people to use media.io. What do you think? :-)

• Ran into issues with Orion, symlinks and the XFS file system.
• Wrote a privacy policy. Contrary to what you would expect, I won't run media.io to get other people's music. In fact, I don't even know what music you upload. The only thing that's ever shared with advertising partners will be artists and album names.
• Discovered that privacy policies are boring. …And nobody reads them anyway.
• Drew some buttons. Buttons, everybody hates doing them but everybody needs them.

And that's all :-)