Review: SoundTaxi Professional audio converter
Take a quick look at SoundTaxi Professional
SoundTaxi Professional can easily convert DRM protected music, such as wma, m4p, aac to mp3, wav, mp4 and unprotected aac. SoundTaxi Professional can also convert unprotected music, such as mp3, ogg, mp4, snd and aif, to mp3, wav, mp4 and unprotected aac. However, it’s weird that SoundTaxi Professional does not support wma as output format. Wma format is widely used for Windows applications.
The developer claims that SoundTaxi Professional is able to perform 40x maximum converting speed, which enables it to be a qualified counterpart of Tunebite Premium. Both of these two audio converters take the same approach of virtual recording to convert DRM protected music.
Main window of SoundTaxi Audio Converter
What can SoundTaxi Professional do?
SoundTaxi Professional can
- Convert protected m4p to mp3, wav, mp4 and unprotected aac;
- Convert protected wma to mp3, wav, mp4 and unprotected aac;
- Convert protected aac to mp3, wav, mp4 and unprotected aac;
- Convert audio book to mp3, wav, mp4 and unprotected aac;
- Also convert un-protected audio files to mp3, wav, mp4 and unprotected aac.
SoundTaxi Professional requires the latest version of iTunes or Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher to playback the audio tracks you try to convert.
Working with media players, SoundTaxi Professional can convert all types of audio files that can be played on your computer. Supported input formats include mp3, ogg, mp4, snd and aif, to mp3, wav, mp4 and unprotected aac, and many more.
Why do we pick SoundTaxi Professional?
During the test, SoundTaxi Professional proofed to be qualified of converting protected music to mp3, wav, mp4 and unprotected aac and did reveal its fast speed. Some older versions of SoundTaxi probably have problems with iTunes. However, the developer has released a new version to fix the bugs. And it deserves a try.
- Converting Speed
SoundTaxi Professional challenges Tunebite’s 27x High-Speed Digital Dubbing by accelerating up to 40x maximum converting speed. The actual converting speed is outstanding.
- Sound Quality
The audio file created by SoundTaxi Professional is of good quality and it’s pleased to listen to.
- Ease of Use
SoundTaxi Professional has very clean and clear user interface, with all buttons and menus line up on the upper window. The design of the interface itself serves as the guideline to use the program, so that users can easily complete the operations.
- Stability
SoundTaxi Professional occasionally has capability problems with iTunes. When we did the review for this program, SoundTaxi Professional crashed twice before we got upgrade from the developer and finally installed it to the computer.
- Preserving ID3 Tag and Album Info
SoundTaxi Professional can preserve ID3 tag, containing artist name, song title, year and genre, and album name and artwork.
- Additional Features
SoundTaxi Professional provides several additional features.
- Transferring folder structure
- Selectable compression level
- Synchronizing music to iPod
SoundTaxi Professional is able to transfer the folder structure of the input audio files to re-create the same folder structure to hold the converted audio files. This is very useful if the user wants the converted files to be automatically organized exactly the same as the original one.
SoundTaxi Professional provides various compression levels for your choice. You can customize the compression level according to your specific requirements.
SoundTaxi Professional has a quick button that can enable you sync the converted music to iPod with ONE click.
- Support Service
SoundTaxi Professional has built-in Help file, online FAQs and email support. Not too satisfying, their support is some how too simple to address complicated problems. Overall, the support service is quite fair.
Things you must know
- SoundTaxi Professional may have occasional with iTunes and crash upon installation.
- The DRM protected audio files you try to convert must be authorized.
- SoundTaxi Professional trial version has 30-second limit on every converted song.
- SoundTaxi Professional only converts audio files that can be played on your computer.
