"Illustrate.org supply a variety of audio products, and are currently moving from their "Shuffler" range to their "dBpowerAMP" range. We tested the Shuffler music converter, which has since been discontinued. It appeared to use the Xaudio decoding engine, and hence gave the two small problems associated with it: A small blip occurs when decoding a lame encoded tone sweep, and possible high frequency errors occur when decoding blade encoded files. See the Xaudio review for more details.

Beside this, Shuffler music convertor clipped the end off one of our 32kbps test files. It also skipped 1 second of a corrupt 320kbps test file, but decoded all other mp3 files in their entirety.

Due to the slight bug in the Xaudio decoding engine, Shuffler Music Converter cannot be recommended for perfect quality mp3 decodes, though in everyday use it is unlikely that these bugs will have any audible effect on the sound quality of this decoder."