It will come as no surprise that because of its popularity, there are literally hundreds of tools and utilities available to manipulate media files. As you might expect, when it comes to video and audio files, there are literally hundreds of different file formats around, and many of them need to be specific to be able to work on certain devices such as mobile phones, tablets, personal music players or dedicated multimedia players. Converting, ripping and encoding is all the rage these days when it comes to video and multimedia files and just about everybody who uses a computer has, or probably would like to be able to do it at some point.
