“TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award” goes to Switch Audio Converter by NCH Software, a program that rises head and shoulders above its competition. It’s easy enough for the casual music lover, yet still has enough options to please the audiophile. Switch Audio Converter is a clear leader of MP3 encoders.
Switch Audio Converter presents itself with a clean user interface that supports the widest range of audio files. From beginning to end, the process is simple and straightforward. Change the bit rate? Check. Change the file from stereo to mono? Check. Make those new tunes work with your MP3 player and your car stereo? Check.
Without relying on flashy bells and whistles, Switch Audio Converter wins the top award by presenting the best package at the best price. Providing the best product at a lower price than the rest of the competition is an impressive feat.
Standout Features:
Switch Audio Software is the Swiss army knife of MP3 decoders. It does everything, and looks great at the same time. The program supports a wide array of file formats to put those songs you just downloaded from iTunes on your home stereo and MP3 player alike. It also makes sure those same files will keep their filenames intact to avoid mystery music files that need to be relabeled after converting.
The software’s clean interface is easy to follow and understand. Everything that can be altered in the conversion, file type to audio channel and output can be found easily; no hunting for different tool screens or tabs and tabs of options.
Want to add your old analog music collection to your new digital collection? Switch Audio Converter also includes the ability to rip CDs. Rather than having to go back and purchase MP3 versions of all your favorite CDs, just import the real thing. Switch Audio Converter also has access to a free database for album details. This saves you the trouble of typing in the name and artist of all those tracks. If you want more ripping power, NCH also has Express Burn, a software utility that can be purchased as a bundle with Switch.
Previewing the tracks after converting them is easy to do with the built-in audio player. This way you can listen to the results immediately or make sure you’re converting the correct song. Need to convert a lot of files quickly? Add folders of files at a time; batch conversion easily streamlines the process.
Finally, the command line feature ensures that Switch Audio Converter plays well with other programs. Use it to convert audio files in conjunction with other programs.
Let’s say you are gearing up for a trip and need to convert a large amount of files for your road trip playlists. If you have the playlists already sorted on your computer, through whichever audio player you use, Switch Audio Converter can simply convert the entire playlist; simply drag -n-drop and let the converting begin.
This program can batch-convert up to 3200 files making it the easiest and fastest way to get all your tracks converted, organized and named correctly. If those files are culled from multiple downloading services such as iTunes or Amazon, Switch supports a small army of file types so you can make sure you won’t miss any tracks in your library.

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