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by Terrence O'Brien on September 3, 2008 at 12:00 AM



Quick Media Converter

One of the downfalls of digital media is the mess of formats that make playing back songs and videos more of a hassle than it was to obtain them in the first place. Here's a quick list of the various files you're likely to come across: Ogg, WMA, WMV, Quicktime, FLAC, MP3, DIVX, AVI, WAV, AAC, MPEG. Playing them all back requires an arsenal of media players (or one really powerful one), but no personal media player can handle them all.

So, how do you get that HD quality DIVX file to play on your PSP, or that Windows Media track to spin on your iPod? Well, you've got to convert it to a compatible format. Quick Media Converter puts a slick interface on the powerful FFmpeg media-playing-and-converting tool that normally requires complex commandline ninjutsu to operate. But Quick Media Converter makes everything easy by taking just about any file you feed it and spitting it out again in the desired format. It's as easy as pressing a button for MP3, or WMV, or even device specific buttons for iPod, PSP, etc.

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