Convert Audio Online – 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.

   

Click here to download:

New_Features_at_media.io.zip (76 KB)

Bugs, bugs, bugs

Software bugs are annoying so I fixed some more.

• Repeatedly uploading files would not work in Internet Explorer. This was a caching issue.
• Don’t log file names during download. Nobody seemed to care about this bug but it was easy to fix for the next version of media.io.

Time for tests!

It’s no secret I love testing. I’m a bad designer and a bad copywriter, but I don’t have to be good because I can let my users tell me what they like. In the next days, I’ll start another multivariate test that should answer some of my questions regarding button and help text placement.

Survey

I would like to find out how you use media.io and I have created a short survey. If you have 30 seconds, please take the survey. Thank you!

New upload layout

I mentioned that people are occasionally uploading files but never converting them. In response to that, I’ve completely redesigned the file upload. You can see it in the screenshot below. Soon, when you convert audio at media.io, it’ll be painfully obvious how much data you’ve already uploaded.

media.io doesn’t support any and all file types yet. Whenever someone tries to upload something media.io doesn’t know yet, I can find out what it was. That’s good for everyone because I can concentrate on audio formats most people want. Here’s the list so far:

• 13 wma
• 1 rm
• 1 ram
• 1 ogx
• 1 mpeg
• 1 flv
• 1 flac

As you see, many people want to convert WMA – Microsoft’s audio format – to other formats. Understood :-) It’s coming soon

One week after launching media.io, I’m already expanding the list of audio formats
supported by media.io

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) will be the next format that you can convert audio files from.

All MPEG-4 profiles will be supported, including MPEG-4, MPEG-2 MAIN, LOW, LTP, LD, LC, SBR, PS and ER object type AAC files (thanks to FAAD2). Encoding to AAC will come a little bit later. For audio file conversion to AAC, I’m torn between FAAC and the Nero AAC Encoder. If you have a preference, please post a suggestion, thanks!