Sound Grinder 3.3.6

Sound Grinder is a highly efficient and feature rich audio utility featuring conversion support for many of the most popular audio formats including:
- AIFF
- AMR Narrowband
- AU
- MP3 (LAME codec)
- OGG/Vorbis
- Quicktime Movie
- Sound Designer II
- WAV
Sound Grinder also provides fast access to audio conversion right within the Mac OS X Finder.
Sound Grinder incorporates Rapid Convert allowing it to pull-up/pull-down sample rates, folder hierarchy recreation, and 31 character naming compatibility.
Whether you are an industry professional, an up-and-coming audio engineer, or someone looking for a great way to convert audio files, you owe it to yourself to check out all that Sound Grinder has to offer.

Main features:
Power:
- Universal Binary for 100% native Intel and PowerPC support.
- Sophisticated processing engine for speed and stability.
- Droplets, providing quick drag-n-drop access to file conversion.
- Rapid Convert, providing in-Finder file conversion.
- One window design.
- Support for multiple sessions.
- Customizable list view.
- Multiple error logging levels.
Conversion:
- Comprehensive conversion engine.
- Metadata batch-processing.
- RMS and Peak normalizing.
- User presets.
- Full interleaved/split-stereo handling.
- "Retain Folder Structure" option.
- Naming options for Pro Tools compatibility with split audio files.
- Pull-up/pull-down sample rates.
- Custom sample rates.
- 31 character name limit support.
Metadata:
- Support for ID3 tags, Vorbis Comments, FLAC Comments, and Quicktime User Data.
- Support for retaining Broadcast Extension (BEXT) metadata
- Support for Pro Tools file comments and timecode stamps.
- Support for Finder/Spotlight comments.
- Support for reading assets supported by Quicktime.
- Support for ID3 tags, Vorbis Comments, FLAC Comments, and Quicktime User Data.
- All metadata viewable in the List view.
- Comprehensive metadata editing for export.
Playback:
- Preview conversion settings.
- Full playback control including scrubbing.
- Playback slider.
- Loop playback.
- Quicktime movie video preview.

System requirements:
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- 800 x 600 screen resolution.

Version restrictions:
- Sound Grinder will run without limitation for 15 days, after which it will no longer run, but it can be activated within the application.
- The only limitation is that the first half of all created files will be the expected audio, but the second half will contain silence.

Enhancements
- Added support for MPEG-1/2, Layer 2 audio in WAV/BWAV and Quicktime files - Added ID/Read support for MPEG-1/2, Layer 2 audio in WAV/BWAV and Quicktime files.
- Fixed bug with source files that have no extension - Fixed a bug where the last character of the filename would be cut off on export if the original file had no extension.
- Fixed bug with creating MPEG 4 Audio files - Fixed a bug involving writing audio packet info when creating MPEG 4 Audio files. The result of this bug would be error messages when playing back created MPEG 4 Audio files in the app.
- Updated MPEG 4 Audio file import - Made a change to more accurately determine the length of the audio in the file.
- Updated file reading support - Made a change for some file types to to remove errors displayed when reading a file when the file indicates a longer duration than the number of samples actually contained in it.
- Fixed a general conversion bug - Fixed a bug involving bounding sample counts when performing audio conversion. The result of this bug would be that when some created audio files using a packetized format when no sample rate conversion was needed and imported into iTunes, would show a length of only 1 second.
- Fixed ID3 Tag issues - Fixed an issue where text that could not be written out as ISO Latin 1 text is now correctly written out as Unicode text.
- Fixed an issue where text encoded in Unicode may not be read properly during import.
- Fixed a bug when reading split files of differing lengths - Fixed an issue where reading split files of differing lengths could cause a crash or other errant behavior.
- Fixed a bug when creating WAV/BWAV files and writing WAVE Info metadata.
- Fixed an issue where, in rare cases, the application would crash after writing WAVE Info metadata.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.