Good Freeware Stuff

[Quin]

Hi all.
Does anyone know of any audio cutter/joiner for .m4a, .aac, etc. formats that doesn't recompress?

Neither are fully freeware, but the demo versions of reaper of goldwave should be able to do this.

[Randy Walker]

Hi all.
Does anyone know of any audio cutter/joiner for .m4a, .aac, etc. formats that doesn't recompress?

Look for "Music Editor" and WavePad in The MS Store. I don't know about the recompress thing. Also might give "Super" by erightsoft a shot. Can be used to join any like audio/video media, Any format. Can also convert to/from any format. It's one of my favorites.
https://www.erightsoft.com/home.html
All three are Free.

[Psychophanta]

Thanks.
Tested "reaper" and "goldwave", not successful.
@ Randy Walker
will check all those...

[PBJim]

Thanks.
Tested "reaper" and "goldwave", not successful.
@ Randy Walker
will check all those...

The tool I've been using reasonably often for several years and can vouch for its safety and capability, is MP4 Tools — a joiner which also has a separate splitter. MP4 Tools understands M4A files and I've just tried it, copy below. It's very basic, so Randy's suggestions might indeed be better.



https://sourceforge.net/projects/mp4joiner/

In my experience with some multimedia tools, they only offer a front-end to FFMPEG and often don't make a very good job of it, especially some the video tools. Some don't catch errors, instead either crashing or just doing nothing. Using FFMPEG via the command line is best.

[Piero]

Does anyone know of any audio cutter/joiner for .m4a, .aac, etc. formats that doesn't recompress?

Ffmpeg "info" and how-to (join):
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate

Best multiplatform free media tools (audio/video/image):
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewto ... 78#p627378
(join/split audio):
https://www.shutterencoder.com
https://www.ocenaudio.com
https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut


Ffmpeg split (just in case):
https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Main-options (-ss, -t, -to)
https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.h ... c-ssegment

[Psychophanta]

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https://www.nchsoftware.com/software/video.html
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Not only video, the have lots of other stuff:
www.nchsoftware.com

[Randy Walker]

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https://www.nchsoftware.com/software/video.html
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Not only video, the have lots of other stuff:
www.nchsoftware.com

Yes they have lots of stuff, IF you pay for it. At the time I made my original post they offered a free to use copy of VideoPad.

[infratec]

For an easy handling:

https://www.xmedia-recode.de/en/index.php

[SPH]

Hi,
What video compression software do you recommend?
(I can't read all 44 pages of this post)

[Randy Walker]

Hi,
What video compression software do you recommend?
(I can't read all 44 pages of this post)

Not sure what you mean be video "compression". I've found "Super" to be super at converting and even shrinking video files, or just converting to another format. Very cool tool:
https://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

If you're looking to edit. I use "VideoPad Video Editor".
https://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html

[Piero]

Hi,
What video compression software do you recommend?
(I can't read all 44 pages of this post)

That's like asking an Italian: "How many are the kinds of Pizza I can make?"

Anyway:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/HighQualityAudio

PS: Lossless = NO pineapple

PPS: I supposed you don't want h265, webm…

[Piero]

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[Randy Walker]

Windows 11 has a command line utility called "winget" you can use to update *most* of your installed software. I thought that was pretty cool so I thought I would try building a UI wrapper for it. Well then it occurred to me someone might have already done so, so i searched and found it.
Did you know "Windows Update" in Windows 11 does not fully update your Windows installation? For instance; your powershell utility (for one) is never updated when you get any of your "windows updates". But there is a free tool that can help you get your Windows 11 fully up to date. It's called UniGetUi and you can get it here:
https://www.marticliment.com/unigetui/
It will notify you anytime an update is available on your installed software. click the notification and the uniGetUi utility pops up. One click and the update is on it's way. Very slick and i really like it. Think you will too.

[Randy Walker]

Convert Win32.hlp files to .chm format for free. I just discovered this little gem and wanted to share even though I don't know yet how good it is - It's free so it rates good in that respect. Review and download here: https://www.helpndoc.com/download/
The reason I went searching for such a tool was to convert the win32.hlp file provided in the JaPBe package that is so essential to PB programming on Windows. Imagine being able to F1 on top of any Win API command and get help for that command just like you do any PB command -- NOT available in the native PB IDE(but should be). So I am converting that .hlp file to .chm in hopes it can somehow be integrated into the native PB IDE. No idea if or how that might be possible, but as is, no Win API help is driving me crazy.

[susan]

Convert Win32.hlp files to .chm format for free.

A related online app that I find useful.

https://ehubsoft.herokuapp.com/chmviewer/