CNET Editors' review
This multipurpose audio tool may initially appear unimpressive, but it has a number of cool features under the hood. YAMP's small, nonresizeable interface has a rather primitive appearance, but once you expand the left-pane menu items to browse all your options, it's clear there's more than meets the eye. The program can both rip CDs and convert audio files, but those two features are actually the weakest links. The CD ripper only extracts tracks as WAV files and can't retrieve song information from the Web, while the converters only support OGG and MP3 to WAV and vice versa.
However, it's YAMP's unexpected and unique audio tools that really help give it a boost. A sampler utility extracts only a certain portion of a track, though it's a shame you can't use sliders to determine the exact cutting points. The WAV and MP3 players strangely aren't integrated into the same module, but both offer a 10-band EQ, preamps, pans, and visualizations. Other tools include a mixer, a few audio filters, a normalization utility, and a very basic recorder, though all of these only are compatible with WAV files. It may not be the best designed program around, but YAMP's versatility makes it worth considering, particularly for those who mainly deal with uncompressed audio files.
Publisher's Description
From Softuarium:
YAMP 2.3 is a complete, professional, easy and affordable solution for people working with audio data. It allows users to easily extract tracks from audio CDs, create samplers of audio CDs, decode MP3 files to WAV format, quickly encode WAV files to MP3 format, tag MP3 files, play MP3 and WAV files, decode Ogg Vorbis files to WAV format, and encode WAV files to Ogg Vorbis format. You can edit an envelope of WAV files, filter WAV files, import sound files from many formats, professionally mix WAV files, normalize amplitude of WAV files, record sound from any available source, and resample WAV files (high quality).
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"VLC beats this software"
Version: YAMP 2.3
Pros
Really cute graphics and bouncing meters.
Cons
Doesn't support the cellphone audio formats it claims to. Doesn't do anything VLC doesn't already do and VLC does video.
Summary
For an all around player, videolan.org. For cute graphics and flashy stuff, use this.
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"Reliable, accurate and a joy to use"
Version: YAMP 2.3
Pros
I think this is one of the finest programs for its type anywhere and I have been using for a long time
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"useful"
Version: YAMP 2.3
Summary
its only average for ease of use because you have to click between so many windows to do several things that are related. not a bad program
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"Great Fast Quick Easy!! All you need for your music needs!!"
Version: YAMP 2.3
Summary
Great this, very quick for mp3 decoding/encoding
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"Ripping/converting music files made easy & it works like a charm"
Version: YAMP 2.3
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"really great"
Version: YAMP 2.3
Summary
the speed leaves a bit to be desired, especially when encoding larger files, but not enough to take away from the rest of the program
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"Highly recommanded"
Version: YAMP 2.3
Summary
Very quick simply, but does excellent job!!!
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"not a bad program"
Version: YAMP 2.3
Summary
if all you need to do is encode and decode mp3 this should do what you are looking for
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