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Grab Tube: Free Download and Covert File and Music Software

Grab Tube’s Converter is a free online application which allows you to download videos from any URL including YouTube and then convert it to other formats. It can also convert from one media format to another after loading the file. This free online service allows you to convert FLV (YouTube), AVI (Windows Video), 3GP (cell phones video), MP4 (Mac + Windows) files to any of the following formats- MP3 (digital audio files), MP4, FLV, 3GP, MPG(MPEG) and AVI.

GrabTube converter allows you to upload file size of maximum upto 20MB and the video formats supported for upload are .flv, .mp4, .3gp, .avi. The service also allows you to download the videos from YouTube by specifying the URL.

The possible modes of conversion using this tool are;

• FLV to MP3
• FLV to MP4
• FLV to AVI (to the most popular video format)
• FLV to MPG [MPEG] (Flash video to MPEG /downloadable movies/)
• FLV to 3GP (to watch YouTube videos on your cell phone /beta 2.0/)
• MP4 to 3GP (PC/Mac video to mobile video)
• MP4 to MP3 (to get a ringtone)
• MP4 to FLV (to upload your video on some website)
• MP4 to AVI (some old video players can play only AVI files)
• MP4 to MPG [MPEG]
• 3GP to MP3 (mobile video -> ringtone)
• 3GP to MP4 (mobile video -> MAC/PC video)
• 3GP to FLV (mobile video -> Flash)
• 3GP to AVI (mobile video -> PC video)
• 3GP to MPG [MPEG] (mobile video -> downloadable video)
• AVI to MP3 (to get a ringtone)
• AVI to MP4 (PC video -> MAC video)
• AVI to FLV (PC video -> Flash)
• AVI to 3GP (PC video -> mobile video)
• AVI to MPG

The service is totally free of cost and the only restriction is the file size, which is maximum of 20MB.

Switch Audio File Conversion Software

Last week I ran into a small problem when trying to put an audio book onto my iPod.  The audio book was in .wma, or Windows Media Audio format, my iPod doesn’t like that format.  A quick Google searches lead me to one of the simplest pieces of conversion software that I’ve used in some time.

Switch is a multi-platform dead simple program to use.  Simply tell it where the directory of files lives that you want to convert, point it to the directory where you want them to end up (or the same one), along with what format you want them converted into and click a button.  I seriously wish more software was this easy to use.

On my core 2 duo Macbook with 2GB of RAM it took about 4 hours to convert 12 .wma files into 192 kb/s .mp3’s.  This isn’t a five-minute job to do, and I fully expected it to take some time, so plan ahead.

Sound quality, to my untrained ears was identical.

Ease of use for this multi-platform software, being able to handle dozens of file formats and being free means this small app will stay installed for some time.