Thread: Ashampoo Music Studio 2009

If you are someone who has loads of music files stashed in your PC's local drive, you would probably want to get more out of your music collection like converting, ripping, burning, or editing the music files. To do all that you would probably need to use multiple software. Ashampoo Music Studio makes all these tasks a lot easier by bringing together all the tools you will need for playing around with your music files.

The interface takes a step-by-step approach which makes the program both easy to learn and use. All the functions available can be accessed from a single integrated interface, including ripping tracks from CDs, audio editing, converting between different formats, digital recording, repairing damaged or corrupt tracks and burning to CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc and an audio player with multi-format playlist support.

The first option listed in the main interface allows you to easily create audio files from CD tracks. Apart from letting you rip in different file formats and setting the output quality, it also allows you to filter audio by normalizing the volume. It has a very nice feature of retrieving CD information from an online music databasefreedb.org. It means that you won't need to spend time editing all the CD information like artist, album and track titles for each single track manually it's all done automatically by Music Studio.

The option for burning files allows you not only to burn Audio CDs but also comes with support for quickly burning and creating a CD/DVD containing WMA files. You can also burn CD/DVD discs containing mixed file formats for playing back on your Pc.

The Modify Files feature is for various editing jobs like converting audio files to various file formats like WMA, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, and FLAC, and editing file tags. The Normalize Volume option available in the Rip Audio CD tool can also be accessed directly from the Normalize File Volume sub-option.

The Broken File Assistant helps you in finding broken or error-ridden audio files and provides assistance in fixing them. It provides an option for moving files that cannot be repaired into a particular folder that you have specified Ashampoo Music Studio 2009 also comes with the ability to design and print CD/DVD covers and labels. Designing and creating labels is easy enough with loads of professional-looking themes provided. A very good feature in the label designer is that it can import tracks and data lists directly from the disc you want to label. Those who don't want to get stuck with the themes provided can also design labels from scratch with all the designing tools available.

Another option available is the cover designer for creating covers for CD/DVD jewel cases. Apart from adding image, background, and text, you can even add a table for creating a content page for listing down all the audio tracks. It gives you options for inserting the index, title, file name display, duration, and size.