Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Video, Windows
Make your audio and video files executable without a media player
by Brad Linder May 13th 2008
Want to send a friend an audio file, but don't know if they've got an audio player that can handle your OGG files? You could point them to the appropriate player and codec combo, or you could just make the file an executable. Audio/Video to Exe is a utility that lets you turn pretty much any audio file into a standalone media player.
The player is probably the simplest you've ever seen. There are no controls for play/pause or fast forward/rewind. In fact there are no controls at all. If you want the file to stop playing, you just close the program. But the media you create should be playable on any PC.
You can also use the program to convert files from one format to another. It can handle a wide array of audio and video formats, including 3GP, AAC, FLAC, MP2/3/4, OGG, and WAV, and WMA, WMV, FLV, SWF, ASF, and MOV. Audio/Video to Exe is available as a free download. Or you can buy the Pro version, which lets you adjust bit rates, for $32.27.
[via Technospot]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
junesoon said 4:06PM on 5-13-2008
I would not open an executable audiofile. Doubt my Boss will let me, and certainly not at home. What about the rights level, public machines won't let you play this file.
Playable on any PC??
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James said 4:07PM on 5-13-2008
Worst. Idea. Ever.
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Matias Korhonen said 4:08PM on 5-13-2008
I agree with the previous poster.
If I receive an unrequested exe in an email, I certainly will not execute it. Nor should anybody else! Especially if the email claims it to be an audio file.
Why not just send an MP3? Pretty much every user on the net has used those.
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TEILLU said 4:39PM on 5-13-2008
Hmm... Sure it's not made to send audio or video files via web, but I think that could be a great idea if I wanna put my Zep's fav songs into an usb and listen to it at job... I think that's a good idea, and I hope someone somday somehow can do similar apps just to open .doc, .dwg, .pdf files simply with an .exe one.
Sorry about my (very) bad english...
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Peter Lowe said 5:06PM on 5-13-2008
This is old news. "cool_song.mp3.exe" or other similar files have been around the usual places for years now.
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Fabian said 4:30AM on 5-14-2008
hmm looks like someones been playing around with some nine inch nails song ;-)
creative commons rock!
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whiskey said 4:38PM on 5-14-2008
Have you (or Brad or anybody) found anything?... I mean a la Red Horse Vector (just mono the stereo from The Great Destroyer)...
Oh and about the exe files... hmmm nope, I don't like it.
I think that if you want to hear songs on your office from your USB you could do better by using something portable (there's a winamp and there's a VLC).