Online Audio Converter – media.io

The blog of media.io

Bug fixes, faster downloads and MIDI

Correct Download File Names

A bug that existed since… the beginning of media.io: When you downloaded a file that contained non-ISO-8859-1 characters (technically speaking), you would get broken file names. To be honest, I never noticed until someone from Russia told me. Crazy.

Faster Downloads

To make downloading faster, I implemented gzip compression for downloads. In April, this reduced the amount of downloaded data by 13 %. Less data to download means faster downloads for you (and less money if you are billed by bandwidth consumption).

MIDI

media.io now supports the popular MIDI format so you can for example convert MIDI to WAV.

media.io in Estonian

Thanks to Olav from Estonia, there is now an Estonian translation of media.io. Thanks, Olav!

Other performance improvements

I’ve made several small tweaks to increase site performance. The home page should now load in less than 2 seconds – worldwide.

New Features at media.io

I have published an updated version of media.io.

What’s new?

  • Support for download links. Sometimes, people have tried to use download accelerators – which media.io doesn’t support. Now, if the “Download” button doesn’t work for you, download the file by using “Save link target as…”
  • Improved “File-not-found” page. I still need to put in a lot of work on making media.io more robust though.
  • Increased upload limit to 250 MB. That’s right, you can now upload and convert audio online with files up to 250 MB large.
  • Some layout work. I did run ClickTale on media.io for a while and the things I’ve learned have now been changed. As always, there are “before” and “after” screenshots below.
  • Warning screen for WebKit users. WebKit-based browsers (Chrome, Safari, Midori…) aren’t supported yet due to a bug in WebKit. If you use a WebKit-based browser, there is a warning now.

As always, let me know if you have questions or would like to request an audio format.

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