RioPort Audio Manager 3
RioPort Audio Manager 3 (RAM3, download) allows you a large amount of control over your digital music library. Unfortunately, RioPort charges an upgrade fee for some features you can find for free elsewhere.RAM3's front end is intuitive and easy to configure. It searches your hard drive for applicable file formats -- MP3, WMA, QuickTime, Audio Video Interleave (AVI), RealAudio, and MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) -- and imports them. If you're ripping from a disk, RAM3 provides you with a few different encoding options: MP3 or WMA, at speeds from 64 Kbps to 256 Kbps. You can then configure your files into playlists and sort them by name, size, file type, and more. Burning CDs and transferring individual tracks or playlists to a portable device are easy procedures.
RAM3 currently supports all S3 Diamond Rio models, the Compaq iPAQ PA-1, and any other hardware players that use industry-standard Media Device Manager (MDM) and API-related Service Provider Interfaces (SPIs). For those concerned with looks, you also get over 100 visualisations.
The standard version of RAM3 is a free download. It lets you encode an unlimited number of WMA encodes and up to 50 MP3 encodes, but you can burn only 25 CD tracks. You must pay for an upgrade that gives you unlimited burning and encoding capabilities.
Company: RioPort
Price: Free download; Audio CD burning and MP3 encoding capabilities, US$18.95 direct download
Rating: 4 Star
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