I’ve just published some changes to media.io:

New Audio Formats: AC3 and µLaw/AU

media.io now supports AC3 and µLaw/AU. Converting AC3 to MP3 and the other supported formats is a bit experimental (since AC3 supports multi-channel audio).

Quality Improvements for Ogg Vorbis

Armed with close to 100.000 data points, I looked for file format conversions that just didn’t work as well as they could. One of the problems that I found were conversions to Ogg Vorbis with sampling rates other than 44.100 Hz. From now on, audio files converted to Ogg Vorbis will always be resampled to 44.100 Hz.

No more AdSense Ads

While AdSense wasn't ever going to make me rich, eCPMs have taken a nosedive in February. Unfortunately for Google, I'm not willing to sell my visitors for 0.5 € eCPM so there are now different ads from Amazon which will probably perform awfully (like all ads from Amazon that I tried).

As always, thanks for the feedback you have send in through surveys and the UserVoice forum.

• Ogg Vorbis to WAV
• AAC to WAV

I admit that WAV isn’t the most popular target format but some people have been looking to “decode MP3 to WAV” – search engines simple don’t understand that, if I say “convert WAV to MP3,” I don’t automatically support converting MP3 to WAV. :-)

I know there are some strange bugs that some people (including myself) run into occasionally. If you experience a problem with media.io, simply file a bug, describing what you did and what you expected to happen.