The Best of the Best !!!
This review is for TUNEPAT’s Apple Music converter. I currently have an APPLE MUSIC three month trial membership. As everybody knows Apple is one of the best sources for millions of songs old and new. I downloaded the TRIAL VERSION of TUNEPAT’s Apple Music converter in less than one minute using a 100Mbps internet connection. Installation was simple and took less than a minute as well on a Windows 10 Pro based PC. Setup was very simple. Upon initial startup of the application a window popup provides you the opportunity to watch a HOW TO USE VIDEO. This video is very concise and informs the user everything they need to know to immediately start using the software. The user is given a “check box” option to disable the tutorial video option for future execution of TUNEPAT Apple Music converter. The setup options in TUNEPAT’s Apple Music Converter allow you to select any of four different output options for the downloaded tracks: MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV. Upon selecting output options AAC or MP3 the user is then allowed to select OUTPUT QUALITY of 128 kbps, 192 kbps or 256 kbps. During the trial, I verified the converted file properties and confirmed that the files are created with the user-specified parameters. TUNEPAT’s Apple Music converter is very stable and easy to use. If you know how to navigate the Apple Music application, you have 90% of what you need to know to navigate TUNEPAT’s Apple Music converter. After initial installation, you can set and forget your preferred TUNEPAT’s Apple Music converter settings. After entering your music search criteria you are able to see all results in TUNEPAT’s Apple Music converter window. If you searched by ARTIST or GROUP, you have an option to display all available albums in the TUNEPAT Apple Music converter window. The best way to convert (download) an album is to select it in the TUNEPAT Apple Music converter window and select the “CLICK to ADD” button. The download begins automatically. In my environment an album downloads in approximately 1/10th the play time for that specific album – meaning, an album with 60 minutes of music will download in about 6 minutes. One feature that I would like to see is the ability to queue multiple albums for download instead of having to wait around for the each download to finish before starting the next. I have imported the converted files to iTunes or just play with native windows applications. The quality of the converted songs appear to be high with no noticeable issues. No dropouts. No truncation. No noise artifacts. As mentioned earlier I use TUNEPAT to convert to WAV file format - so the converted file should be of equal quality to the original file. I have also converted to FLAC output format; I listen to FLAC format files with GROOVE MUSIC or, in some cases, I will convert to APPLE LOSSLESS format (using dbpoweramp or mediahuman). In these cases, the end result has been consistently good. The pricing model is reasonable and I would gravitate toward ‘yearly’ as it is the best value. One final note: software of this type is unique and requires significant maintenance by TUNEPAT to ‘react’ to changes made by the download service being accessed (e.g. Amazon, Apple, etc). If Apple changes their graphical user interface (GUI), TUNEPAT would need to update their software to continue working with Apple Music. The company does offer email and chat support through Facebook messaging. Due to timezone differences, it may take 24 hours to get a response to a question (possibly more if a request is made during a weekend). You can find them at tunepat.com or by searching TUNEPAT on Facebook.