Mac OS X audio Freebies List

Description: Listen to all 60 of the BBC's national, regional and local radio streams, right on your Dashboard. Note: This widget is completely unofficial. Due to legal threats from the BBC, this widget can no longer display the proper station branding. RealPlayer 11 causes audio dropouts. Please use RealPlayer 10, or use the widget in "Dashboard developer mode".What's new in this version:Various graphical fixes, and BBC logo removal (legal threats, woo!).

Keywords: audio 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 229 kb; Updated: 2008-10-31

Description: Finale is the most powerful tool for turning ideas into music. Hundreds of features are at your fingertips in Finale's intuitive interface, making it easier to bring your music to life faster. New for 2008, more efficient cut/copy/paste/insert and other interface improvements to streamline workflow.What's new in this version:Many more time-saving enhancements to the entry of expressions, including Staff Assignment Lists, an expanded category designer, layer assignment improvements, more Score Lists (formerly "Staff Lists") and additional powerful timesaving keystrokes. MoreAmbience Reverb is now included for Intel-based Macs, offering advanced control over great-sounding reverb. Macintosh playback problems, where users of specific audio interfaces only heard the left channel, have been resolved.SmartScore Lite Scanning Improvements - Support for triplet recognition and improved results when scanning polyphonic music.Improved Cross-Platform Font Handling. If you share Finale files between Mac and Windows c...

Keywords: advanced windows control audio music files tool copy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3520 kb; Updated: 2008-10-29

Description: SimplyBurns is a Mac OS X application with a GUI, which allows the user to burn CD / DVD media.SimplyBurns comes with audio and data project, duplication mode, burn image mode, and disc ripping mode.SimplyBurns is open source software, donations are appreciated.What's new in this version:New localization: FinnishNew Features:Simplified user interface for disc duplication modePreferences dialog: User can now choose whether using error correction or not (omitting error correction reduces rip duration to a fourth)Preferences dialog: User can define a blacklist of files excluded from import (for example to ignore .DS_Store files)Preferences dialog: User can now configure default pre-gapUnits of file size formatter now localizableBugfixes:Burning DMG images of type read/write works againDuplication mode did forget already ripped image after reporting a medium-problem (like f.i., that the present disc is non-writable)Further stability improvements

Keywords: application source images image error files media audio 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 8090 kb; Updated: 2008-10-27

Description: VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.What's new in this version:Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS buildsClosed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2Fixed various potential crashes and memleaksFixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog statesRight-click menu to select playlist columns reenabledVarious fixed in playlistMMAP module is now deactivated by defaultUpdate of Brazillian, Swedish translation

Keywords: multimedia playlist reading player files video media audio 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 30925 kb; Updated: 2008-10-26

Description: Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional media types:AVI, FLV, and MKV file formatsMS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer II AudioAVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRTWhat's new in this version:Fixed update checker never running - this version requires a manual installEnabled frame-dropping on AppleTVFixed some frames being lost in AVCHD/.mp4 with newer versions of QuickTimeFixed another ffmpeg crash on G3s

Keywords: application windows media flash video audio file divx 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2662 kb; Updated: 2008-10-22

Description: MPEG Streamclip converts QuickTime movies, MPEG-1/2/4 files and transport streams into several formats; for MPEG-2 playback and export, the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is required. MPEG Streamclip can play and convert selectable parts of QuickTime movies, MPEG files and transport streams with MPEG/AC3/PCM audio into DV streams or QuickTime, AVI, MPEG-4 movies using any video codec, with optional 2D-FIR professional scaling, motion-adaptive deinterlacing, and other pro options; all in YUV, with audio in perfect sync. It also performs fast conversions to muxed MPEG files and demuxed M2V, AIFF, M1A, AC3 files, for direct burning with DVD Studio Pro and Toast 6, 7, 8.What's new in this version:new option to add a textual watermarkchoice of format for YouTube videos (MP4 or FLV)fixed compatibility with Google Video and Yahoo! Videoadded video playback and download from Veohfixed a sound problem with some DivX moviesfixed compatibility with Perian 1.1

Keywords: component download convert movies format audio files sound 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1331 kb; Updated: 2008-08-12

Description: Turbo.264 is a powerful hardware encoding device that quickly converts any video to the advanced H.264 (MPEG-4) format without using your Mac’s resources. Work, watch TV and surf the web while you encode video with no reduction in processing speed. Turbo.264 supports many third-party Mac video applications as well as EyeTV.What's new in this version:Direct YouTube upload. Encoded clips can be uploaded to YouTube immediately after encoding.AC-3 audio for AppleTV. If present in the source file, AC-3 audio will be passed through when exporting to Apple TV. The resulting file contains both AAC and AC-3 audio.DVD chapter support - Chapter markers in the source will be included in the exported file as QuickTime chapters.QuickTime Broadcaster support. Turbo.264 1.3 adds support for compressing live streaming video into H.264 using QuickTime Broadcaster. The CPU load is much less than when using software compression, and the quality is always 100%, no frames are dropped.DVD Closed Caption Support - DVD closed c...

Keywords: compression advanced format upload source video audio watch 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 11776 kb; Updated: 2008-05-22

Description: Audio application that allows users to easily record their collection of old vinyl records using just the Griffin iMic and their turntable. Previously users wishing to record their old record collection had to hook up their entire stereo system just to power their turntable. Now users can connect the record player directly to their iMic, and using Final Vinyl record and save all their old albums. They can then make them into CDs, MP3s etc. Final Vinyl does more than just record old albums; it is a fully functional general audio recording application as well. It can be used to record instruments, microphones and reel-to-reel tapes plugged into the iMic. It includes a 10-band Equalizer that is capable of significantly altering and enhancing a user's sound input. For example, inexpensive microphones could be improved by tweaking the bass response. Old worn records can be fine tuned and tonally corrected. All this and more can be done using the completely free Final Vinyl combined with the Griffin iMic.What's...

Keywords: application system player record audio sound free save 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2048 kb; Updated: 2008-04-09

Description: Automat is a polyphonic stereo subtractive Audio Unit software synthesizer for Mac OS X.What's new in this version:Fixed the "scrambled audio" bug with ableton's live and multiple instances of automats

Keywords: audio 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2150 kb; Updated: 2008-04-01

Description: FireStarter is a pure Cocoa, Mac OS X only, burning applicationIt allows you to easily back-up CDs that Apple's Disc-Copy cannot copyIt allows you to back-up as easily CDs that even Roxio Toast cannot copyIt makes brings for the first time on Mac OS X the burning of cue/bin disk-images from the PC worldIt brings for the first time overburning available to Mac OS XYou can easily burn complex CD formats such as VCDs and SVCDsBecause you don't want to compromise on quality, FireStarter FX sports all the features you want to see in a commercial grade burning application:SimulationCustomizable RAM cacheHigh speed burningBuffer under-run technology to prevent wasting your mediaMulti-session burningParanoia audio-cd ripping, for best error protection copyCDDB access to automatically create CD-TEXT dataCD-TEXT reading and writing with drives that support itand many more powerfull featuresWhat's new in this version:FireStarter FX 1.0RC1 has been redeveloped from scratch and now supports officially only Mac OS X 10...

Keywords: application protection reading create access images audio error 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 5018 kb; Updated: 2008-03-26