audials music 2020

RECORD MUSIC STREAMING IN INDIVIDUAL MUSIC PIECES

• Record all major streaming services
• Highly optimized for Spotify, Deezer, Napster, Tidal, YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Soundcloud, and many others
• Fingerprint-based song recognition allows recording of any source
• Support for recording via sound card and downloading
• Records locally installed software or web-player
• Saves individual, labeled songs

HIGHEST QUALITY OF ALL RECORDINGS AND DOWNLOADS

• Recording: Exact clipping at start and end of song, no post-processing required    
• Recording: Support for optimal recording level, including level meter, dialog instructions, auto-detection and much more
• Downloading: Automatic selection of the best audio track
• Loss-free recording or direct download for optimum quality, depending on the source

SAVE MUSIC QUICKLY

• Downloading: Super fast, as only the audio track is loaded
• Recording: Makes players such as Spotify playback twice at 5x the speed, thus reaching 10x the speed
• Processing of any number of downloads in parallel
• Instant display and availability of all finished recordings

FIND AND SAVE ALL MUSIC

• Searches all major music services 
• Monitors all > 100,000 radio stations in the world, finds all songs using clips 
• Structures and combines search results and shows this in the discography of the artist
• Instantly save all songs
• For music videos, optionally save the audio track or various video formats
• Automatically determines the best version, offers alternate versions simply by clicking    
• Optimizes the music selection by song or music video
• Optionally finds karaoke videos (without vocal track, but with lyrics shown)
• Search sources can be expanded with community plug-ins

MUSIC SELECTION AND DISCOVERY

• Direct search for artists, songs, compilations, music genres, and radio stations with intelligent suggestions    
• Discography by albums or top hits for convenient access    
• All artists shown with photo
• Supports compilations, samplers, and best-of albums (all songs are searched)
• Display of best matching songs for artist, song, genre, or radio station
• Filter by time span or popularity
• Display of best matching artists for genre, artist example, song, radio station    
• Audials Charts - regularly provided, hand-picked best-of lists
• Find matching compilations for genre, artist example or song example
• More than 100 genres / musical styles, hundreds of top artists for each genre
• "Music Zoom": Map calculated using artificial intelligence with over 300,000 artists, sorted by genre, similarity and popularity

PERSONALIZATION AND MUSIC TASTES ("STYLES")

• Define several own music "Styles"
• Narrow down by favoring example radio stations
• Narrow down by favoring artists
• Show radio station suggestions that match the style
• Show music that matches the style (songs, artists, compilations)
• Easy distinction with colors

GET MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND: MUSIC WISHES

• Wishlist (consisting of songs, albums, artists) are automatically filled in the background (added to the music collection)
• Simultaneously monitor tens of thousands of radio stations based on your preferred music and record the desired songs 
• Simultaneous web metasearch through all major portals such as YouTube, Soundcloud, and Spotify
• Filter by audio file, music video, or karaoke
• And: Identification of best studio version based on lexical analysis and comparison with discography database
• And: Finely adjustable criteria in terms of which hits are preferably recorded automatically
• Optionally record only radio stations that offer perfect cut quality (no post-processing required)
• Optionally load multiple versions of a song, show only the best version (duplicate management, see the media library), subsequent swapping if necessary
• Optional display and consideration of pre-existing versions of songs
• Definition of strategy on how results from various sources (radio, music websites, etc.) are mixed 
• Any number of wishlists can be defined and fulfilled simultaneously
• Access to Audials community wishlists
• Precise job definition: Number of desired versions per song, artist, album, or overall, per data volume or time, number of simultaneous edits
• Detailed display of progress and status of fulfilling requests for each song
• Powerful filter prevents inadvertent recording

GET YOUR MUSIC COLLECTION AUTOMATICALLY (MUSIC BOT)

• Automatic creation of a music collection for individual music tastes
• Definition of music taste through examples of artists and/or radio stations ("Styles")    
• Set the desired number of songs (e.g. 1000)
• Set the structure of the music collection: Few artists with lots of songs, many artists with top hits, etc.
• Set the content of the music collection: More like the examples, broader, etc.
• Instant preview when settings are changed: What collection would result
• Fully automatic creation in the background from all streaming services, websites, and radio stations 
• Detailed display of progress

MUSIC FINISHING (TAGS, LYRICS, CUTTING)

• Automatically sets ID3 tags and album covers for recorded tracks
• Automatic Internet search for lyrics of recorded songs    
• Automatic classification of recordings by genre    
• Powerful in-place editor allows convenient adding of additional tags, also during recording
• Normalization of all recordings for uniform volume
• Optional adjustable fading (e.g. for cutting points of radio recordings)
• Powerful audio editor allows retroactive fine tuning of radio recordings

READS AND IMPORTS ALMOST ALL AUDIO/VIDEO FILE

• Imports all major audio formats to convert (over 40 formats)
• Also converts protected audio files by playing them and automatically re-recording them at high-speed
• Converts protected audio books at high speed using the virtual audio CD driver
• Optimized audio book mode with output as a single file or as individual files for each chapter
• Imports all major video files to convert (over 45 formats)
• Converts protected video files by playing them back and automatically re-recording them from the screen
• Extracts audio track from the video as an audio file

CREATE AUDIO AND VIDEO FILES IN ALL MAJOR FORMATS

• Export audio formats: MP3, WMA, WMA Pro, OGG, FLAC, WAV, M4A, AAC, AIFF, AU and CAF
• Export video formats: WMV, MP4, MPEG4, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, MKV, MOV, H.264 and H.265
• Pre-defined universal profiles for easy configuration
• Over 100 optimized device profiles enable optimum video output for all major device classes
• Pre-configured profiles for all current major smartphones and gadgets
• Optimizes files for PC, Mac, Android smartphone & tablet, Apple iPhone™ & iPad™, Xbox™ & PlayStation™ game consoles and many others

FINE-TUNE WITH INDIVIDUAL PROFILES

• Format editor enables creation of individual converter profiles
• Adjustable bitrate settings (same as original file, exact, maximum), VBR supported
• Adjustable frame size (same as original file, halved, exact, maximum)
• Adjustable frame rate
• Separate settings for audio and video tracks in video files

HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONVERTER

• Optimized for maximum video quality
• Precise adjustment of whether to favor output quality or smaller file size
• Supports stereo and 5.1 audio
• Convert as many files you like at the same time
• Batch conversion with automatic shut-down option after task completion

COPY DVD - COPY PROTECTED AND UNPROTECTED DVDS

• Reads and converts unprotected DVDs directly
• Simple, semi-automatic selection of feature film and language
• Copies protected DVDs by playing them back and re-recording
• Converts any DVD to the correct format for PCs, tablets and smartphones

CONVENIENT MUSIC MANAGEMENT/MUSIC PLAYER

• Convenient player with playlist management functions and display of song lyrics
• Music Universe enables visual browsing (via artist photos) of similar artists in your own collection
• Various displays available according to artist, genre, etc.
• Configured information columns for beginners and experts in media collection view
• Automatic reloading and display of artist photos
• High-powered search of entire media collection
• Playlists of similar artists and genres generated automatically
• Supports links to online videos (e.g. from Vimeo) in playlists

VIDEO AND MEDIA MANAGEMENT

• Manage media other than music, including movies, series, video podcasts, radio show recordings, audio podcasts and many more
• Choose between visual display (thumbnail) and column view which displays all file properties

EDIT MUSIC AND MEDIA FILES

• Automatic online search for missing ID3 tags and album art
• Automatic online search for song lyrics
• High-performance tag editor, easy drag-and-drop tagging available
• Audio editor enables post-editing of music files
• Ringtone editor creates ringtones from songs
• Integrated movie search engine searches the Internet for tags for movies and TV series

HIGH-PERFORMANCE DATA MANAGEMENT

• High-performance management of duplicate files. Only the best version is displayed by default – alternate versions can be shown at any time
• Clean-up mode: find all files with multiple versions – ideal for deleting duplicates
• Work with as many music collections as you want
• Dual music collection’ display enables flexible transfer to and from a wide variety of file locations
• Optional display of physical file structure for the media collection
• Flexible rule-based fine-tuned control of file names/folders for all created files
• Flexible rule-based re-sorting of file names/folders for individual files or the entire music collection

PERFECT INTERACTION WITH SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS

• Optimized for ‘filling up’ Android smartphones & tablets as well as Apple iPhone™ & iPad™
• Dual-device display enables flexible transfer to and from a wide variety of devices and file locations
• Copying in the background, status bar displayed for devices
• Audials Anywhere enables remote access to PC music collection (with transfer function) from an Android smartphone

POWERFUL IMPORT AND EXPORT FUNCTIONS

• Pre-configured for all major cloud services. Upload, download, synchronize, use in playlists
• Audials Anywhere enables remote access to the media collection of another PC or smartphone (i.e. use a PC as a private media cloud)
• Import and export playlists in .pls and m3u format
• Burn audio and mp3 CDs and DVDs
• Conveniently create and wirelessly upload individual ringtones for cell phones and smartphones
• Directly export to media player software (iTunes, Winamp, VLC, Windows Media Player)