Yesterday, I’ve released the following changes at media.io:

New Audio Formats

media.io now supports four more audio formats. These weren’t the most requested but they were easy to add.

• Monkey’s Audio (.ape files)
• Shorten (.shn files)
• TwinVQ (.vqf files)
• TrueAudio (.tta files)

Bug fixes

• The list of formats was incorrectly shown to mobile devices. The jQuery plugin I use to display the list of audio formats wasn’t really working for mobile devices.
• Uploads are now ordered correctly. Previously, new uploads would be added to the file list at its end. Now, new uploads are added at the beginning. This should help on the download page.

What else is new?

• Italian translation. I’ve had media.io translated into Italian. I like having localized versions because they make things easier to many people.
• Improved Polish translation. I had a colleague go over the Polish translation and improve it.

More is coming. I am still working on the “email/share” feature. If you know where to look, it’s already there.

Last Sunday saw the release of a number of changes to media.io. Here’s what’s new:

Support for 21 Tracker Formats

Back in the early 90s, I wrote tracker music on my Amiga 500 using MED and sometimes OctaMED and I’m proud to announce that media.io now supports 21 formats by various trackers.

This feature was made possible by the nice folks who wrote the VideoLAN VLC player and the ModPlug library. For those interested, here is a VLC forum thread that details my settings.

In addition to the tracker formats, support for .m4r has also been added.

Here is a full list of new supported file extensions:

• .mod
• .s3m
• .xm
• .it
• .669
• .amf
• .ams
• .dbm
• .dmf
• .dsm
• .far
• .mdl
• .med
• .mtm
• .okt
• .ptm
• .stm
• .ult
• .umx
• .mt2
• .psm
• .m4r

Translations

media.io has been translated to seven languages:

1. German
2. Spanish
3. French
4. Dutch
5. Polish
6. Portuguese
7. Russian

Thanks to the translators.

Smaller Changes and Bug Fixes

• Some music files could not be converted because their tags were invalid. This has been solved.
• Performance improvements. Resource loading was optimized, leading to faster loading pages.
• Redirections for previously used URLs were created. This helps avoid 404 errors.
• Download links were removed. This was a feature that wasn’t well understood as many temporary URLs were posted to Twitter, leading to many 404 errors. A similar feature will be back some day.
• No more “Extended Version.” While the Extended Version was working to some extent, it was clearly not working well so the feature was deleted. A different solution will come in the future.
• Files that no longer exist are ignored. Some people spend hours converting files and since files are deleted after an hour, media.io would attempt to re-convert them.
• Files that are internally renamed before conversion were not shown. Some file extensions are just aliases for others and media.io renames them internally.
• Very rarely, some files could not be uploaded. This has been fixed.

FLAC at media.io

media.io now supports the FLAC losless audio compression format. At this time, FLAC support is decoding only but over time, I will add a few more formats you can convert music to and FLAC will be one of them.

Just so you know, FLAC was the seventh most “requested” format at media.io.

So, what are you waiting for, go convert FLAC to MP3 online at media.io.

Upcoming Features

media.io will soon support one or two more audio – and video – formats. I am thinking of FLV and maybe AIFF. I am also working on making WAV decoding more robust.

As always, if you have any questions, email me or post a feature request.

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!