Free pcm software for mac

AIFF from PCM is a freeware tool to convert files containing stereo or mono linear PCM sound data into AIFF format.
To help visualize here is an example: You authored a DVD disk using iDVD a long time ago. The burned disk is still there but your original soundtrack is no more available. Although you can extract the sound data from the DVD using for example the excellent MacTheRipper or YadeX, this extracted file wont play.
The problem is that it will be extracted as PCM, which is a raw sound data missing any additional information. To play it, to import it into iTunes or to use it in iDVD again, the file has to be converted into another format. The file type most recommended to be converted to would be AIFF, and AIFF from PCM is a tool that can be of great help for this job.

Main features:>
- Easy and intuitive to use.
- Test playback.
- Accepts large files as input (e. g. sound longer than 2 hours and/or file size bigger than 2GB).
- Multithreaded - takes advantage of a multiprocessor architecture if present, but also works fast and reliable on single processor machines.
- Batch converting limited only by the capacity of your storage media.
- Written in Cocoa.

Enhancements:
- Compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard".
- Universal binary.
- Other minor changes and fixes.

Express Scribe is professional audio player software designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings. It is installed on the typists computer and controlled using the keyboard (with hot keys) and/or foot pedal controls.
Express Scribe is a atool with variable speed wave playback, foot pedal operation, file management and more. This program is free.
The full features list of Express Scribe follows below but a quick way to test its suitability is to simply download and install it. You dont need to purchase anything and it only takes a couple of minutes to complete downloading and installation.
Express Scribe is now free in the hope that because you will like it you will recommend our dictation recorder applications including Express Dictate Professional Dictation Recorder, DialDictate Phone Dictation Server, Pocket Dictate Dictation Recorder for Pocket PC or Palm Dictate Recorder for Palm OS.
Main features:
- Ability to play most audio file formats (including encrypted dictation files).
- Variable speed (constant pitch) playback.
- Supports many professional foot pedals which connect to the game, serial or USB port to control playback.
- Uses system wide hot keys so you can control playback when using other software (eg. Microsoft Word).
- Ability to dock portable recorders (both analog and digital portables) to load recordings.
- Works with Microsoft Word and all major word-processor applications.
- Automatically receives and loads files by internet (FTP), email or over a local computer network.
- Automatically sends typing to the person who dictated the work.
- Works with speech recognition software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking to automatically convert speech to text.
- Windows version supports wav, mp3, dct (encrypted dictation), ra and rm (RealAudio), sri (VoiceIt), dss (Olympus, Lanier and Grundig), au, aif, vox, mp2, vox, compressed wav (including PCM, uLaw, ALaw, ADPCM, CELP, SBC, Windows Media, DSP TrueSpeech, GSM 6.10), msv and dvf files (Sony Recorders) Philips Digital Recorder format, Sanyo Digital Recorder format and more.
- Works with Philips, Sanyo, VoiceIt, Olympus, Lanier, Grundig, Sony and many other digital dictation recorders in addition to the Express Dictate Windows Dictation Software, Phone-In Dictation Software, Pocket PC Dictation Recorders and Palm OS Voice Recorders.
- Loads CD audio directly - you can even begin to listen as it loads in the background.
- Can be integrated into other dictation management systems using the Express Scribe SDK.
- Express Scribe is free.

BladeEnc 1.4 is an innovative and versatile MPEG 1 Layer III (MP3) encoder based on the ISO reference code. It makes MP3 files from AIFF, WAV and raw PCM files. It supports many bitrates, from 32 to 320 kbps. Best of all, it's completely free with source code available.

Sbooth Max 0.9.1 is launched to be a helpful program which helps with creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files. When extracting audio from compact discs, Max offers the maximum in flexibility to ensure the true sound of your CD is faithfully extracted. For pristine discs, Max offers a high-speed ripper with no error correction. For damaged discs, Max can either use its built-in comparison ripper (for drives that cache audio) or the error-correcting power of cdparanoia.

Once the audio is extracted, Max can generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats including MP3, Ogg (Vorbis), FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.

If you would like to convert your audio from one format to another, Max can read and write audio files in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats at almost all sample rates and and in most sample sizes. For many popular formats the artist and album metadata is transferred seamlessly between the old and new files. Max can even split a single audio file into multiple tracks using a cue sheet.

Max leverages open source components and the resources of Mac OS X to provide extremely high-quality output. For example, MP3 encoding is accomplished with LAME, Ogg Vorbis encoding with aoTuV, FLAC encoding with libFLAC, and AAC and Apple Lossless encoding with Core Audio. Many PCM conversions are also possible using Core Audio and libsndfile.

Max is integrated with MusicBrainz to permit automatic retrieval of compact disc information. For MP3, FLAC, Ogg (FLAC), Ogg (Vorbis), Monkey's Audio, WavPack, AAC and Apple Lossless files Max will write this metadata to the output.

Max allows full control over where output files are placed and what they are named. If desired, Max will even add the encoded files to your iTunes library in a playlist of your choice.

For advanced users, Max allows control over how many threads are used for encoding, what type of error correction is used for audio extraction, and what parameters are used for each of the various encoders.

Max is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Switch sound file conversion software is an audio file format converter. It can convert audio files from many different file formats into mp3 or wav files, including wav to mp3, au to mp3, aiff to mp3 and much more.
Switch audio file converter is very easy to use. Just add the files you want to convert to the list, select the format you want to use, and then click the convert button.
Main features:
- Converts a variety of different audio file formats including wav, mp3, ogg, flac, aac, wma, au, aiff, ogg, msv, dvf, vox, atrac, gsm, dss and other formats into mp3 or wav.
- MPEG Layer-3 encoder supports constant or variable bit rates from 8 to 320kbps with optional error correction and stereo modes.
- WAV encoder support sample rates between 6000 and 196000Hz in PCM or a number of other codecs.
- Up to 32000 files can be converted in one batch.
- Optimized CPU usage and efficient code for fastest conversion times.
- Swicth Sound File Converter integrates directly with other sound software programs including Express Burn for CD Recording, Express Rip for Direct CD Ripping, WavePad for Sound File Editing, RecordPad for Professional Sound Recording and Express Scribe for Typing Voice Recordings.
- Can be run from the command line for automation and other programming applications.
- Switch audio file converter is intuitive and easy to use interface.

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
VLC can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Main features:
- It is a free cross-platform media player.
- It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs.
- It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...).

System requirements:
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- G4 processor/Intel for smooth MPEG-2 decoding.

Enhancements
Important notes:
- Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
- Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations.
Playback:
- Instantaneous pausing.
- Frame-by-Frame playback.
- Finer speed control.
- On-the-fly recording for all medias.
- Timeshift for most medias.
- RTSP trickplay support.
- Subtitles core improvements and fixes.
Decoders:
- New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder.
- New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder.
- New True HD/MLP decoder and parser.
- New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder.
- New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder.
- Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder.
- New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder.
- Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded.
- Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode.
- Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering.
Demuxers:
- Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files.
- Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb).
- Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD.
- Metadata for mod files are supported.
- GSM codecs in Wav files are supported.
- New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams.
- New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams.
Encoders:
- Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS).
- Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder.
Access:
- RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server.
- On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows).
- Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives.
- New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support.
- OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
- EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
- On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore).
- Opening of any file descriptor using fd://.
- MTP device access on Unix.
- CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio).
- :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values.
Inputs:
- Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
Playlist:
- Export the playlist in HTML.
- Lua script for BBC radio playback.
- Better metadata handling and reading.
Interface:
- Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium).
- Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
- Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu.
- Additional usability improvements.
Stream output:
- Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
- Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
- bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
- Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
- Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
Maemo Port - New Maemo port with:
- An interface based on Hildon framework.
- Scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
Mac OS X Port:
- Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc.
- New Document icons by Dominic Spitaler.
Audio output:
- Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins.
- Surround support for PulseAudio.
Video output:
- Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output.
- Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey o) while keeping black borders.
- Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named scene.
- The old image video output has been removed.
- Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
Miscellanous:
- Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications.

MPEG Streamclip converts QuickTime movies, MPEG-1/2/4 files and transport streams into several formats; for MPEG-2 playback and export, the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is required.

MPEG Streamclip can play and convert selectable parts of QuickTime movies, MPEG files and transport streams with MPEG/AC3/PCM audio into DV streams or QuickTime, AVI, MPEG-4 movies using any video codec, with optional 2D-FIR professional scaling, motion-adaptive deinterlacing, and other pro options; all in YUV, with audio in perfect sync.

It also performs fast conversions to muxed MPEG files and demuxed M2V, AIFF, M1A, AC3 files, for direct burning with DVD Studio Pro and Toast 6 or 7.

Switch audio file conversion software is a sound file format converter for Windows or Mac. Convert audio files from many different file formats into mp3, wav or wma files such as wav to mp3, mp3 to wav, wma to mp3 and much more.
This audio file converter is easy to use. Just add the files you want to convert, select the output format, and then click convert.
With Switch you can convert your sound files into the formats you need to compress for storage, create ringtones, add to a presentation, listen on your iPod and much more. In fact, the possibilities are endless using this powerful audio file converter.

Main features:
- Converts a variety of different audio file formats including wav, mp3, ogg, flac, aac, wma, au, aiff, ogg, msv, dvf, vox, atrac, gsm, dss and other formats into mp3 or wav.
- Automatically normalise audio while converting.
- Import multiple file formats at the same time and convert to one output format.
- Ability to play tracks prior to conversion.
- Import and convert a playlist (m3u and pls).
- Import video files and extract audio (avi, mov, mpeg)
- MP3 encoder supports constant or variable bit rates from 8 to 320kbps with optional error correction and stereo modes.
- WAV encoder supports sample rates between 6000 and 196000Hz in PCM as well as a number of other audio codecs.
- Allows up to 32000 files to be converted in one batch.
- Can be run from the command line for automation with other applications.
- Optimized CPU usage and efficient code allows for fastest conversion times.
Switch Sound File Converter integrates directly with other sound software programs including:
- Express Burn for CD Recording.
- Express Rip for Direct CD Ripping.
- WavePad for Sound File Editing.
- RecordPad for Professional Sound Recording.