Editor's Review: Tunebite Premium

Take a quick look at Tunebite Premium

Tunebite Premium is named as the Outstanding DRM Audio Converter by M2Review. Tunebite is a Windows-based audio program that can automatically or manually records media files that were purchased online as the audio files are played.

Tunebite Premium converts DRM protected music and audio book in wma, m4a, m4b and m4p formats to unprotected mp3, wma, ogg, m4a and wav audio files. Additionally, Tunebite Premium can convert unprotected music and audio book. Tunebite Premium also functions as audio stream recorder for special web sites with music services.

RapidSolution Software has released three generations of Tunebite to convert DRM and unprotected audio and video files, namely, Tunebite Classic, Tunebite Premium and Tunebite Platinum. All three Tunebite editions convert DRM-protected music and audio books stored in the wma, m4p, m4b, m4a and aa formats.

Tunebite Classic converts DRM protected music and audio book in wma, m4a, m4b and m4p formats to unprotected mp3, wma, ogg, m4a and wav audio files.

Tunebite Premium has all the functions of Tunebite Classic to convert DRM files. Additionally, Tunebite Premium can convert unprotected music and audio book. Tunebite Premium also functions as audio stream recorder for special web sites with music services.

Tunebite Platinum has all the functions of Tunebite Premium to convert DRM and non-protected files, plus with video conversion function. Tunebite Platinum can converts DRM protected video in wmv and m4v formats to unprotected wmv, mp4, avi, xvid and 3gp video. If you wish to watch video clips on your iPod, mobile phone or Sony PSP, Tunebite Platinum can do the conversion job wonderfully just to meet your needs.

What can Tunebite Premium do?

Tunebite Premium can

• Convert protected aac, m4p and m4b to mp3, wav, wma and ogg;
• Convert protected wma to mp3, wav, wma and ogg;
• Convert protected audio book to mp3, wav, wma and ogg;
• Convert un-protected audio files to mp3, wav, wma and ogg.

Since Tunebite Premium uses re-recording, or virtual recording, it requires iTunes or Windows Media Player to playback the audio tracks you try to convert.

Tunebite Premium can convert all types of audio files that can be played by Windows Media Player and iTunes. What Tunebite does is simply recording the sound of the audio and saving it on your computer.

Why do we pick Tunebite Premium?

Tunebite Premium has demonstrated the outstanding capability of converting both DRM protected and unprotected audio files to mp3, wav, wma and ogg during the tests. According to the common criterion, Tunebite Premium proofs to be outstanding by showing:

• Converting Speed

Tunebite applies High-Speed Digital Dubbing, and it will install 4 recording slots on your computer. Each slot can be maximally accelerated 4 times with Windows Media Player and 1 time with iTunes. These slots can theoretically function up to 27x speed recording process and convert up to 9 audio tracks at the same time.
However, actual speed is dependent on the performance of your operation system. Usually it can not reach the promised maximum speed and full capacity.

• Sound Quality

Although Tunebite Premium utilizes High-Speed Digital Dubbing, it can capture enough details to render good quality of stereo sound.

• Ease of Use

Tunebite Premium will prompt you to do lots of selections and parameter settings. This may be a more professional way of doing audio conversion, but to those who have only average knowledge about audio and computer, it might seems to be a little complicated.

Nonetheless, the interface of Tunebite is clear and logically designed. The layout is symmetry: managing added files on the upper left, managing recorded files on the upper right; showing status on the left bottom, player on the right bottom, and with menus at the center of the window.

• Stability

Overall, Tunebite runs well. However, if you try to fully utilize its capacity, it might over-consumes the CPU resource and causes the crash of the program or even the crash the computer.

• Preserving ID3 Tag and Album Info

Tunebite Premium can preserve ID3 tag, containing artist name, song title, year and genre, and album name and artwork. It allows you to import and export album cover artwork and lyrics.

• Additional Features

Tunebite offers the most features than the other DRM audio converters. All these features ensure Tunebite to be a professional audio converter and guarantee the sound quality of the output audio files. On the other hand, it might reduce the ease of use as well.

• Automatic Recording

Tunebite can automatically intercept and record protected audio when it’s played on Windows Media Player or iTunes.

• Volume Normalization

Normalization can be used to bring all recorded tracks to the save volume. Using 89dB will likely ensure no clipping occurs. If the tracks do not sound loud enough, you can increase the value.

• Filtering duplicates

Tunebite can filter the DRM files that have been converted before from being added to the converting list. So the unnecessary repeating conversion will be prevented.

• Restructuring Output Folder

Tunebite enables you to customize output folders, 4 kinds of structures are selectable: flat folder; folder by artists; folder by artists, containing sub-folder by albums; and the same as original folder.

• Synchronizing iPod or other mp3 players with the songs recorded by Tunebite
• Audio player

The Player lets you play and edit your new music tracks, as well as view the results of the recording process.

• Making Ringtones

Click the Ringtone button and it will prompt you to an application that can convert a converted audio track into ringtone and load it onto your mobile phone.

• Burning CD

Click the CD button and it will prompt you to an application that allows you to burn recorded music onto audio CD or mp3 CD.

• Support Service

Tunebite Premium has detailed and clear built-in Help file to assist users to manage this somehow advanced program. The developer also provides online FAQs and forum support. Email support service requires forum ID.

Things you must know

• Use the default settings if you do not understand those parameters well.
• The DRM protected audio files you try to convert must be authorized.
• Tunebite Premium trial version has 1-minute limit on every converted song.
• Tunebite Premium only converts audio files that can be played on your computer.