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   graylox
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   freeTunes 3.0
   Future-Proof Your Media Collection

   How many of you own a cassette player? Okay, since many of you may not have ever seen a cassette player, here's another question - how many of you own a CD player? No matter which camp you're in, it's likely that you're stuck with mountains of cassettes or CDs and no way to play them. The only way to avoid format obsolescence is to transform your media files into more current formats - in today's case, it means taking your CDs, DVDs, and other media and converting them to digital files. The best way to do this is with today's discount software promotion, freeTunes 3.0!

   freeTunes 3.0 lets you convert your purchased media into future-proof digital formats that are playable on any modern platform. With freeTunes 3.0, you'll never get stuck with videos and music that are imprisoned on outdated formats. What's more, you'll never lose important information when you use freeTunes 3.0, since the program can fetch cover art and title information from the Internet automatically. You can even use freeTunes 3.0 to make digital backups of important CDs and DVDs, even if they're protected by DRM.

   Bonus features include the ability to create ringtones for your iPhone, and your choice of three skins to match your mood. freeTunes 3.0 is the best way to create digital versions of your media collection!
   Promotion Written by Derek Lee

   Policy
   After you make a purchase of this BitsDuJour discount promotion, freeTunes 3.0 may be used indefinitely.
   freeTunes 3.0 is licensed per user, so if more people are going to use freeTunes 3.0 you will need to purchase additional copies.
   Each license allows installation on a single computer and a laptop, but freeTunes 3.0 may not be used at exactly the same time on each of them.
   Transfer of a license to another owned computer is allowed.
   Online license activation is required without a hardware footprint. what's this?
   You can install/register the software at any time.
   Upgrades to future versions of the software will be free up to the next major version and minor versions thereafter. For versions after that, upgrades will require additional payment, which will be discounted.
   Support is provided for the lifetime of the product.
   14 days return policy.

   Features:

   Convert media into future-proof digital formats
   Enjoy the ability to produce a wide variety of formats for playback on multiple platforms
   Never get stuck with a media collection on an outdated format ever again
   Make backups of important CDs and DVDs, even if protected by DRM
   Create ringtones for your iPhone
   Choose from three different skins
   Purchase with BitsDuJour's discount coupon code and get all this at a promotional price!
   

   
   More info:
   http://www.engelmann.com/eng/freetunes.php

   Get the 100% free deal:
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   graylox

   17.09.2012

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   graylox
   Moderator

   Here is mike's review of the GOTD version, we got on 28.03.2011

   
   # 30
   I’m not terribly impressed with freeTunes 3 as a general purpose audio convertor, nor do I like the install, but if it allows you to re-record some audio files with DRM that’d you’d have trouble with otherwise, it might be worth it — Google/Bing including the source of your audio w/DRM, & you should get a very quick idea if there are alternatives & how many. To me the input/output formats are too limited, while others will have the recurring problem of not being able to record speaker output — an intentional limitation put in by manufacturers so you can’t do what freeTunes is [at least partly] designed for.

   FreeTunes does use .NET as pointed out by [#2] oliviab, but since Universal Extractor won’t work on the setup file I can’t say what’s included, e.g. whether it includes a redistribution setup file. It also uses Internet Explorer & both Direct Show & D3D, & according to Process Explorer [SysInternals -- Microsoft.com], freeTunes 3 depends on versions 6 & 8 of the Windows C++ runtime files [which I thought a bit amusing (not in a good way) considering it insists on installing version 7 of those runtimes]. Much of the codec [audio/video encoder/decoder] work is supplied by HDX4 [ http://goo.gl/mWVIS ] installed to the Common Files folder — 37 files totalling ~34 MB… However, freeTunes 3 doesn’t appear to use more than a few of those files, & doesn’t support most of the formats that the installed HDX4 files can handle. Monitoring install, Windows’ system folder was the target for 19 files, mostly older versions of freeware for encoding/decoding flac, ogg etc. An older version of the Matroska splitter is included & installed, but not the complete splitter setup — note that in my experience it can cause problems handling/playing video on some systems. The same can be said of the ac3filter.ax in the app’s folder — IMHO if you’re going to run either install a more complete package [both readily available as free downloads] so you can at least control their behavior a bit. The Engelmann Media program folder holds 17 files & takes up ~ 3.5 MB — additional folders are added under All User & User application Data — 1738 new registry entries were recorded. Watch out for: some registry values for media handling were changed; added Direct Show filters will compete with those already installed with the same or overlapping purpose; if you have an app installed that includes the same files for handling flac etc., it may use the versions placed in Windows system folder instead — if they’re older than what your app(s) includes it can potentially cause problems.
   Comment by mike — March 28th, 2011 at 1:13 pm

   http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freetunes-3-0/#more-19903

   Posted 12 years ago #

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