AAC Decoding and Transcoding

I built media.io from the ground up to be easily extensible with new audio formats. The first new audio format after the launch is AAC, short for Advanced Audio Coding. You might know AAC as the audio format used in Apple’s iTunes store. AAC is nice and all but now you can convert AAC to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. This includes all MPEG-4 profiles – MPEG-4, MPEG-2 MAIN, LOW, LTP, LD, LC, SBR, PS and ER object type AAC files.

New Look

I’ve also refined the look of media.io, making it easier on the eyes. The new layout should give you a little bit more information about media.io before you convert your music. I’m attaching two screenshots below – before and after.

Feature Requests

Also, the user suggestions board is slowly filling up with ideas. If you like media.io but wish it would do something you need, go there and vote, it’s that easy.

Here's what I did for media.io today:

• 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 :-)