Support for .m4b files and Advanced Systems Format

media.io now supports .m4b files, as well as Advanced Systems Format (formerly called Advanced Streaming Format or Active Streaming Format) files (those with an .asf file extension). Supporting this was really easy so thanks to the people that suggested these formats.

User Feedback

It’s been a while since the last post about user feedback so let me reply to some of your comments again.

Great site! Perfect in simplicity! I would like more encoding options, such as VBR and choice of codec, such as LAME.

I am already using LAME to convert WAV to MP3 so that only leaves VBR. Ogg is VBR by design and I am using LAME’s VBR modes, too.

[…]media.io is an uncomplicated straightforward and at the same time versatile, online, and free(very nice). Thanks for doing this!

Thanks for the praise, glad you like it.

I would like something that will help me boost the audio quality and make it louder.

For that, I would recommend a real audio editor such as Sony SoundForge or Audacity if you want it to be free.

the title of the website is weird, n kinda hard 2 remember

Well, maybe. But I can’t change it now that the site is live. :-)

it would be really nice if you supported video formats, I love how your service is ad free!

Thanks. I have thought about supporting video formats but the problem is video is taking up really crazy amounts of bandwidth and since I don’t make any money from media.io, it wouldn’t be wise to open the door to huge bandwidth bills.

Reliability and Uptime

I have some things in the works that should make the site a lot more stable and also support some problematic formats (floating-point WAV, Windows Media 9). Stay tuned!

As always, if you like media.io but would like it to support something, post it here.

Time for exciting, new things at media.io! Since the last update, I haven’t done a lot I confess, but at least this:

• “Download Links” are no more. From my conversion rates, I noticed that people didn’t seem to understand what the download links were meant to do so this feature is gone.
• Fixed download encoding issues. @Warin notified me of a problem when downloading files with certain characters in the file name. This might have been a big problem that’s now resolved.
• Impromptu instead of Thickbox. The venerable ThickBox has been replaced by the newer Impromptu that’s at least as good, if not better.

Coming Soon

I’ve also changed one or two things here and there, as evidenced by the screenshots below. And there are more changes in the works (yes, including support for WebKit and mobile browsers). As always, if you have questions or need a feature when converting audio online, please let me know.