Review: Blaze Media Pro
Take a quick look at Blaze Media Pro
Technically speaking, Blaze Media Pro is not an audio converter specializing in converting DRM protected audio files. Although it can virtually convert protected wma and m4p to mp3, wav and unprotected.
If you need to batch convert a large quantity of audio files, and converting speed and time mean a lot in this situation, you'd better use NoteBurner Audio Converter, which can convert DRM protected and any audio format to MP3, WMA and WAV at fast speed and with outstanding quality. (Download NoteBurner Audio Converter)
Blaze Media Pro is rather a very complete and truly all-in-one audio and video software application. It is packed with features include: audio editor and recorder, CD copier and ripper, audio converter, video editor and converter, MP3 encoder and decoder, record streaming audio, even CD/DVD burner, and much more.
Blaze Media Pro’s capability of converting protected wma and m4p is supported by the audio editor, which replies on media player to playback the protected wma and m4p and offer audio stream to be recorded and saved. This is the same converting trick just like Tunebite and NoteCable. We call it virtual recording.
What can Blaze Media Pro do?
Since Blaze Media Pro is an all-in-one media application, there are too many things this versatile program can do. Let’s shrink down the coverage to DRM audio conversion. As DRM audio converter, Blaze Media Pro can
- Convert protected m4p to mp3, ogg, wav, unprotected wma, mp2, vox and raw;
- Convert protected wma to mp3, mp3, ogg, wav, unprotected wma, mp2, vox and raw;
- Convert protected aac to mp3, ogg, wav, unprotected wma, mp2, vox and raw;
- Convert protected m4b to mp3, ogg, wav, unprotected wma, mp2, vox and raw;
- Also convert un-protected audio files to mp3, ogg, wav and unprotected wma.
Blaze Media Pro requires iTunes or Windows Media Player to playback the audio tracks so that it can record the audio stream and save it in the format of mp3, ogg, wav, unprotected wma, mp2, vox or raw.
Why do we pick Blaze Media Pro?
The best part of Blaze Media Pro is that the conversion is carried out in the audio editor. The editing platform enables you to cut the audio and apply couples of sound effects. Pros and amateurs may like the program, despite its fair converting speed and the lack of batch conversion.
For those who do not value batch conversion very much and would like to do audio editing before conversion, Blaze Media Pro is a special choice for you.
- Converting Speed
For a single piece audio track, Blaze Media Pro can record and convert it at satisfying speed. However, it can not record and convert more than one song at a time. It’s not a good idea to use Blaze Media Pro if there were loads of songs pending to be converted.
- Sound Quality
Although it’s not as professional as Adobe Audition or Final Cut, Blaze Media Pro at least shall be deemed as near-pro all-in-one media application. And the sound quality it renders is outstanding. What’s more, normalization and extra effects are optional for making the audio even more delicious.
- Ease of Use
Don’t be scared off. Blaze Media Pro is that complicated. Quite contrast to the presumption that this feature-packed application might be somehow difficult to manage, with the well presented functions and step-by-step indications, it’s easy to use.
One thing shall be improved. The playlist is not correlated with the converting functions. With the current version of Blaze Media Pro, you can playback the titles in the playlist. But when you proceed to convert songs, for instance, click Convert Audio > Convert to MP3, the pop-out sub-application will prompt you to add music files again.
- Stability
Blaze Media Pro performs outstandingly stable in carrying out both recording and editing processes. That makes it a nice choice for pros and amateurs who only wish to convert a few DRM audio songs and make fun editing at the same time.
- Preserving ID3 Tag and Album Info
Blaze Media Pro can preserve audio information transmitted from media players. It can preserve ID3 tag, containing artist name, song title and year, as well as album name.
- Additional Features
This all-in-one media versatile program offers many features, too many to be able to stated here. So we have to name only a few of which are related to audio converter.
- Audio editing
- Audio merging
- Audio recording
- Editing audio tag
- MP3/WAV compression
Trimming, mixing, zooming in and -out, fading in and -out, equalizing, inversion, silence, vibrato, and a whole lot more audio effects to be choose.
Another useful feature Blaze Media Pro has is merging audio. You can combine several audio files into one audio file. Supported audio formats include mp3, wav, wma and ogg. You can also use audio from CD tracks and video files.
The Audio Recorder accepts input from any audio device or other input available on your computer.
You can edit the artist, title, album, year, genre, and comments of the selected audio file.
Blaze Media Pro can batch process wav/mp3 files. By compressing the mp3 or wav audio files, you get smaller size audio mp3 or wav audio files. Mind you, the more the audio file is compressed, the worse the sound quality becomes.
- Support Service
The developer of Blaze Media Pro, Mystik Media, provides various ways of support services. Built-in Help file, online support and email support. Surprisingly, they provide phone number, fax number and even postal mail for contacting support service. It’s the unique one out of all audio converters we have reviewed.
Things you must know
- Blaze Media Pro is not able to do batch conversion.
- The DRM protected audio files you try to convert must be authorized.
- The Playback option must be selected before converting.
- The trial version of Blaze Media Pro has 15-day trial period limit.
- Blaze Media Pro can only converts DRM music that can be played by WMP and iTunes.
