RIPPEDOFF  GOT RIPPED OFF!!! The product does not work and the developer refuses to respond. His website (dekorte.com) states that he will help if you send him the file log of the failed conversion. He simply ignores people. THIS PRODUCT IS A SCAM.  
(Version 20090325)

GREENALIEN  Looks like a handy app to have but completely put off by the restrictive licensing. If you plan to upgrade your Mac you have to buy this app again. Meanwhile others who steal the app don't suffer this inconvenience. Some software developers need to get a clue about piracy and how to offer incentives to buy their apps. Browny points for licensing to the individual rather than machine (so can be installed on multiple machines).  
(Version 20080802)

MAC MAIL  Money hungry crap!  
(Version 20080802)

SHOTGUNWEDDINGS  2 Things turned me off this software.

1 - Machine specific licensing sucks, I go through machines like some people go through shoes. I'm not paying for a new license for each machine upgrade I do.

2 - The software is too unpredictable. Works on some file types and does nothing with the other half.

WTH is with the constant unknown updates and the crazy dates instead of some version number?  
(Version 20080625)

PETERPAN23  Bought SC due of his easy to use drag&convert GUI. xAct and Max have much more fine-tuning possibilities but for a quick job SC is great - so I thought. Unfortunately I did tested only some mp3 files befor paying. After more accurate tests with conversions my I have a clear recommendation: DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE!!!!! Most of the option are completly useless.

ANY Format => OGG

files with 112 Kbps no matter which conversion rate is chosen.

Apple Lossless => AAC

default 110 kbps VBR. With any other sampling rate SC stops immediatly without error message

AIFF or FLAC or WAV or WavPack => ACC

default gets 131 Kbps VBR - lower sampling rates works, higher than 147 Kbps not. 320 Kbps gets also 131

AIFF => MP4

default 125 VBR - higher no possible

AIFF or FLAC or WAV or => M4A ACC

default makes files with 137, with other sampling rates e.g. 112 or 192 no files at all

Apple Lossles to MP3

VBR no works, CBR only with defaul bit rate of 128

Conclusion: If you like to lose money then throw it out of the window. That brings more fun. I promise!  
(Version 20071211)

SOUNDMAN  My previous comment about this application has been deleted. Why is that and who did it?

This app. is one of the jokes of the internet.

I download every supposed new version just for the laugh it gives me to open it up and give it a simple aifc or aiff file to convert to wave or mp3. Of course, it doesn't work. I get my laugh and trash the app. That's the way you've got to view SoundConverter.....it's a joke!  
(Version 20071129)

CORPSECORPS  I might get this if 3 things changed:

1. It actually did something correctly once.

2. There wasn't a mysterious undocumented update every 5 minutes.

3. If it used a real version number instead of dates that keeps changing format.

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(Version 20071123)

MADMACMAD  Well & again !

I use this App now about 3 Years on 3 Different Computers. First put the APP in the Application Folder. Not in a other Folder or Location because it won't work. Well i do always Conversation from AIFF to AC3. I can do it also with Compressor but it takes to much time to make the Settings for 1000 Files. That's why i bought this App. There is no App on the Market with can do simple via Drag&Drop Batch conversation from AIFF or WAV to AC3 for DVD Authoring. Also if you use the Compressor from Apple you have to make your own Settings with Dialog Normalisation set @ -31 and not -27 Like Appe did. Well i have never had some Issues with this Software...but well i only use a few of the supported Conversation Methodes and all are working fine for me.

P.S. MP3 is CRAP !!!!!!!!!

5 Stars for a really cheap App that works !!!!  
(Version 071001)

QUIIICK  Why can't the developer of this app use normal a version numbering scheme like everybody else, and not the date ???

This is beyond me ...  
(Version 070913)

AIKOUSHA  "Stealing kiddies," huh? Most of the people that "bought" this complained outright about how poor it is. If you can't steal it, then how can they complain about functions that don't work properly? If there was ever a review that looked like the developer in disguise, it's the review two below mine. Baka!

Now I'll add my comments, because though I didn't "steal" this, somebody at the University paid for it to use on their iBook, and asked what they were doing wrong. (I tried this over 2 years ago and avoided it like the plague, it was so bad).

I quickly found that the program was still "flaky" like another poster said. Heck, for a large amount of it's conversions, it doesn't even have bitrate selections for those that REQUIRE it.

One test I tried in the few things while "bug-testing" this, was to convert a 48K 160kbs MP3 (bgm music for a DVD project) to AC3. It converted it, but it was awful, sounding worse than a 16kbps mp3. Many things it couldn't even accomplish, that it should have. And for the "steal" audience, it never once came up with the "full version" comment, like I remember the trial version doing, all those years ago.

Needless to say, I told him to use the DVD Studio Pro package in the Media Lab, where one of the programs will do all the conversions he needed -- and he didn't have to "steal" that package either, since it was on a school license!

As for the other reviewer that wrote about temporary files, I believe those are there as scratchpad files, as a mid-point format from one type to another, or the data-stream before a header or set of tags is attached... and someone pointed out before, that this was an artifact of the console commands that were used in the construction of this program. Were those "STOLEN" by the developer?  
(Version 070823)