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Sound Grinder

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Take Control of Your Audio

Sound Grinder™ will make batch processing in macOS your new favorite activity. Feature-rich, flexible, and a heck-of-a good time, Sound Grinder lets you batch process thousands of files at once without losing time or your metadata. A "must-have" Monkey at a "can't-resist" price.

Fast, Efficient and Rock-Solid. Sound Grinder provides many features that help relieve the frustrations of processing audio assets. With advanced programming and well thought through processing, we are confident that you will find Sound Grinder to be the fastest, most efficient, and rock solid conversion utility you have ever used.

Version 4 now includes:

  • Apple Silicon
  • Support for 64-bit
  • Compatibility with MacOS 10.10 or greater
  • Additional performance and stability enhancements
Features and Requirements
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Sound Grinder has worked flawlessly every time I’ve used it. This program has made delivering large catalogs of music to clients in whatever format they want a non-issue. You guys rock!!!
Chris H.
I just purchased Sound Grinder yesterday and I would like to thank you for such a great product. It's already saved me weeks of editing work! Absolutely amazing piece of software which I can't believe I've never used before.
Peter S.

Time-Saving Conversion

Sound Grinder was built to become the best audio convertor for those jobs that steal the most time from the creative process. To accomplish this, we have incorporated many features including, folder retention, custom naming options, Pull Up/Down sample rates, peak and RMS normalizations, and an intuitive user interface built around a one-window design. Now with 64-bit support, take full advantage of your machines processing power.

Take Presets Further

Sound Grinder includes Droplets providing instant conversion within the macOS Finder using your custom presets. Set up your conversion settings, choose "Create Droplet..." from the Preset Action menu and save the Droplet to any location. Now when you drag any file(s)/folder(s) to the saved droplet icon, Sound Grinder will process those files instantly using your specified settings!

Tackle Your Metadata

Sound Grinder provides support for several types of metadata, including reading and writing the full suite of ID3 tags in AIFF, WAVE and MP3 files. Metadata can now be displayed not only in the "Asset Info" pane, but also in the main "Asset List". Every metadata item can be edited for single or multiple assets by simply OPTION+clicking the edit field. Specific metadata items can be pre-filled for export in the new Metadata Tab in the conversion settings.

Power

  • Full 64-bit processing support
  • Sophisticated processing engine for speed and stability
  • Droplets, providing quick drag-n-drop access to file conversion
  • Rapid Convert, providing in-Finder file conversion
  • One window design
  • Support for multiple sessions
  • Customizable list view
  • Multiple error logging levels

Conversion

  • Comprehensive conversion engine
  • Metadata batch-processing
  • RMS and Peak normalizing
  • User presets
  • Full interleaved/split-stereo handling
  • "Retain Folder Structure" option
  • Naming options for Pro Tools™ compatibility with split audio files
  • Pull-up/pull-down sample rates
  • Custom sample rates
  • 31 character name limit support

Metadata

  • Support for ID3 tags, Vorbis Comments, FLAC Comments, and MPEG 4 User Data
  • Support for importing and viewing MPEG 4 and ID3 Artwork
  • Support for retaining Broadcast Extension (BEXT) metadata
  • Support for Pro Tools™ file comments and timecode stamps
  • Support for Finder/Spotlight comments
  • All metadata viewable in the list view.
  • Comprehensive metadata editing for export.

Playback

  • Preview conversion settings
  • Full playback control including scrubbing
  • Playback slider with scrubbing
  • Volume control slider with mute
  • Loop playback

AIFF

  • Uncompressed
  • 24-bit Integer
  • 32-bit Floating Point
  • 32-bit Integer
  • 64-bit Floating Point
  • Alaw 2:1
  • IMA 4:1
  • MACE 3:1
  • MACE 6:1
  • Qdesign Music 2
  • Qualcomm PureVoiceTM
  • μlaw 2:1

AMR (Narrowband)

  • AMR Narrowband(macOS 10.6.x and earlier)

AU

  • Uncompressed
  • 32-bit Floating Point
  • 64-bit Floating Point
  • Alaw 2:1
  • µlaw 2:1

FLAC

  • FLAC (version 1.2.1)

MP3

  • LAME (version 3.97)

MPEG Layer-3 audio coding technology licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson.

MPEG 4

  • AAC Low Complexity
  • AAC Low Delay
  • Apple Lossless

* Requires 3rd party plugin.

OGG (version 1.1.3)

  • FLAC (version 1.2.1)
  • Vorbis (version 1.2.0)

Sound Designer II

  • Uncompressed

WAVE/BWAV

  • Uncompressed
  • DVI/Intel IMA ADPCM
  • ALaw 2:1
  • μlaw 2:1

System Requirements

macOS 10.10 or greater

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