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                               Audio Compressor 

                    Copyright 2000-2019 Compressor Software
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                           * IMPORTANT INFORMATION *

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CONTENTS
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* About Audio Compressor
* Installing Audio Compressor
* Customer Services & Technical Support
* Purchasing/Registering Audio Compressor
* License, Warranty, Copyright and Trademarks

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About Audio Compressor
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Audio Compressor for Windows, from Compressor Software (former WinSoftMagic), is designed to compress digital audio files by using the most advanced audio compression algorithms and technology.

Audio Compressor is an excellent way to convert audio for portable devices, prepare  audio files for sharing or storing, for private or business use: 

*        Reduce the size of your audio files 
Audio Compressor can impressively compress audio files. Smaller files take less space and can be uploaded and downloaded more quickly: effectively optimize audio files for faster downloading from the Web, faster e-mail smaller audio files - avoiding exceeding size limits. 

*        Convert video to audio (MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC, AMR formats) 
Audio Compressor can help you to convert video files to audio files (extract audio).  AC supports all popular video formats (MPEG-4, AVI, MPG, MOV, etc). It allows you to save audio as a MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC or AMR file with the specified bitrate.

*        Convert audio files for portable devices 
Audio Compressor can easily convert your audio files for using them on portable devices, such as a mobile phone or a media player. 

*        Convert audio files to MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC, AMR formats 
Audio Compressor can help you to convert audio files from many formats to the most  modern ones by using a selection of our advanced audio codecs. 

You can easily process multiple audio files just in several clicks, as well as a single file.

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INSTALLING Audio Compressor
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Requirements: 
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Windows 10, 8, 7 (incl. Server versions), Vista, XP, ... Windows 95.
When installed it occupies about 12 Mbytes of disk space.  

Installing:
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The installation is quite simple - unzip aaudiocompr.zip, just run 
the aaudiocompr.exe and follow the directions given in the screen. 
The automatic installation procedure will copy all the necessary 
files to the specified directory and create a shortcut for the 
program. After installing, AC can be launched from the "Start" 
menu.

Upgrading:
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To upgrade your version to the latest version of AC, just install 
the latest version to the folder, which contains a previous version 
of AC.

Uninstalling:
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You can uninstall the program from the Control Panel  Add/Remove 
Applications window.  Open the Control Panel from the "Start" menu,
double click Add/Remove Programs, and double click on the "Audio 
Compressor" entry in the dialog box.


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CUSTOMER SERVICES & TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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Compressor Software provides its registered software customers 
with free technical support. We also provide limited technical support
to persons evaluating our products.

We do, however, strongly encourage people to purchase a license.
Software development and support is very expensive and we need your 
help if we are to continue to provide quality programs at affordable 
prices. If you haven't already, please take a few moments to register.
This will assure you of eligibility for technical support, product 
update notification, special discounts, new product announcements, etc.

Technical support, updates, product information and evaluation
copies of all our products are available from the following on-line
services:

Internet E-Mail:
    support@compressor.software

World Wide Web:
    https://compressor.software/


Additional services (for businesses): 
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We are able to create a derivative software product, based on 
Audio Compressor, that covers your particular needs in image processing.
Quickly, rates are reasonable. Contact us at info@compressor.software

Also, the implementation of some special functions for your hardware,
or customizing the existing AC's functions can be made as a result of
OEM sales agreement.


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PURCHASING/REGISTERING Audio Compressor
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We allow you to use the FREE version of Audio Compressor for private 
non-business or evaluation purposes only. This FREE version has a reduced 
functionality. You can use it as long as you wish. This allows you to try out 
all the features to confirm that they work to your satisfaction. 
Purchase of the license (registration) is required to get the completely 
functional Advanced version of Audio Compressor.

Benefits for registered users are:

* Free technical support
* Free minor upgrades and large discounts on major upgrades and other
  high quality products of Compressor Software
* Notification on new releases of AVC

Current price of the single user license is $35. Site licenses with a defined 
number of copies and discounts are available. You can see the current 
pricing information at the "Order" page of our Web site.

Ways to start registering:

1. Run AC. Click on the "Help" item in the main menu, then click on
   the "Purchase a license" item and follow the instructions.

2. Go to the "Order" page on our Web site:  
   http://www.winsoftmagic.com/order.html
   

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LICENSE, WARRANTY, COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS
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Your use of Audio Compressor (AC) is governed by a License 
which appears before you install AC, contains in the user manual and 
in license.txt file. 

Audio Compressor and WinSoftMagic are trademarks of Compressor Software. 
All other brand names are trademarks of their respective owners.

This software and all accompanying documentation are protected by
both United States and International Copyright laws and treaties.

Copyright 2000-2018 Compressor Software
All rights reserved.


Distribution:
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This software may be freely distributed, provided that:

1. Such distribution only includes the original archive supplied 
by Compressor Software, taken directly from our web site:

		https://compressor.software/

You may not alter, delete, or add any files in the distribution archive.

2. The distribution does not include a registration information.
In particular, you may not distribute a registered version of AC.

If you publish magazines, news, books, shareware, freeware or demo CD-ROMs 
or you are Internet software repository, you are welcome to distribute our
software provided that you will follow these rules. Please distribute only 
the MOST RECENT versions of our software.


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Thank you for your support!
Compressor Software

