The Boom Box is the perfect blend of five "best of class" Mac software applications which will make your iPod sing. Convert the tunes from old LPs and tapes. Capture Internet audio streams and download podcasts to listen to whenever you want. Automatically generate perfect playlists. Turn any text from e-books, web pages, and news feeds into an audio file and send to iTunes with one click. Personalize your iPod experience with this essential Mac software collection from Roxio, the creators of award-winning Toast®.

The Boom Box contains five "best of class" Mac software applications to help you personalize and maximize your iPod experience. You can convert LPs and tapes, capture audio Internet streams and download podcasts, and create mixes and your own audiobooks.

The World's Smartest & Fastest DJ
Pick any song, artist or album and create perfect playlists to match your mood with MusicMagic™ Mixer. Automatically analyze the sound wave of each track in your music library, and create instant original mixes from songs with similar acoustic personalities.

TiVo For Your Audio
Capture and save the audio from any application, in real-time, with Audio Hijack™. Save Internet music or radio shows to enjoy at any time, capture sound clips from your DVDs, and set timers to record even when you're away from your computer.

Your Own Personal Radio Station
Download podcasts on thousands of topics and send to iTunes automatically with iPodderX™. Browse and search the largest directory of podcasts from around the world, and subscribe to your favorites for fresh, exciting content delivered daily.

Don't Read It... Hear It
Turn any written document, e-mail or web page into a spoken audio file using iSpeak It. Create your own audio books or listen to the latest news or Internet blog. Instead of reading it - you can now listen to it on your iPod.

The Boom Box provides a highly personalized iPod experience by helping you rediscover your music collection and go beyond music to extend the utility of your player.

Rediscover Music Create perfect playlists from your music to fit your every mood, and enjoy your classic LPs and tapes on your iPod. Reconnect with your music in new and exciting ways.

Beyond Music Capture streaming Internet audio programs, download podcasts on thousands of topics, and convert text documents to spoken audio and listen on the go. Hear talk radio shows, new movie reviews, or learn a new language. Automatically fill your iPod with fresh content.

The hottest new content, best-of-class software and personalized listening experiences, make The Boom Box the perfect iPod companion.

The Boom Box™ includes a 'Getting Started Guide" on the disc, which provides an overview of the software. Each application provides more detailed individual instructions and tutorials

No. At this time, The Boom Box is exclusive to the Mac OS.

Convert your LPs and tapes with CD Spin Doctor®, previously only available through Roxio's Toast software. Import music from a turntable or cassette player, detect tracks automatically, and reduce noise and enhance the sound quality with included filters. Send your converted tracks over to iTunes with a single click and transfer to your iPod.

• Enjoy your classic music collection on your iPod.
• Restore, preserve and archive your music collection.
• Use tracks from your LPs and cassettes in your iMovie projects.

• Guided recording sheet, which ensures error free recordings.
• Auto-stop after a fixed time period for unattended recording.
• Recording quality settings to maximize fidelity and minimize disk space.
• Filters to reduce hiss, pops and clicks, and restore audio quality.
• Auto-track definition with preferences to adjust sensitivity.
• Click & drag track definition and editing.
• Send converted audio to iTunes and iPod with a single click.

All you need to connect your analog source (e.g., amplifier or tape player) to your Mac is a standard stereo connector cable. These are available at most electronics stores for less than $10. Connect the cable to the audio input (line-in) connector in your Mac. Connection instructions with detailed pictures are included with The Boom Box™.

Pick any song, artist or album and instantly create perfect playlists with MusicMagic Mixer™. Automatically analyze the sound wave of each track in your music library, and create instant original mixes from songs with similar acoustic personalities. Send these unique playlists to iTunes and your iPod for a truly personalized listening experience.

MusicMagic™ Mixer's patented algorithms recognize dozens of acoustic characteristics, such as tempo, energy, and harmonics, and use these characteristics to create instant mixes of songs that simply sound great together. It's like having your own personal DJ.

• Create fresh compelling playlists of songs that are "meant" to be played together.
• Rediscover your music library in new exciting ways.
• Truly "smart" playlists that match your mood, instead of random auto-fill.

MusicMagic™ Mixer Premium features:

• Music attribute analysis - scans the sound wave of songs in your iTunes library.
• Creates perfect mixes of songs with similar acoustic properties from a "seed" of your choice - seeds can be one or more songs, artists or albums.
• Set the length of the mix by number of tracks, player capacity or listening time.
• Multiple shuffle modes - random, smooth, sawtooth and jagged.
• Modify and morph mixes by attributes with 'More Like This' and 'Less Like This'.
• Modify and morph mixes by 'Replace This Song' and 'Replace This Artist'.
• Send mix playlists to iTunes and iPod with a single-click.

This mix is far more sophisticated than the basic auto-fill options in iTunes. It is based on matching songs with similar acoustic personalities to produce a diverse assortment of genres and artists personalized to your music tastes.

For example, if you were having friends over for a dinner party, you wouldn't want iTunes to randomly auto-fill your player. Instead, with MusicMagic™ Mixer you can pick a "seed" based on the type of mood you want for the party - for example, a mellow song from Van Morrison, and instantly create an original playlist of songs with similar acoustics to the seed.

In another example, if you wanted a high-energy mix for exercising, you could pick a high energy "seed" (e.g., Outkast), create a playlist in seconds, and send to iTunes.

You can also constrain the playlist to be of a certain length (by number of songs, by time or in MB). This is ideal for iPod mini and iPod shuffle owners who have a limited amount of storage on their player. Without MusicMagic™ Mixer you would either have to hand-pick the songs to transfer from your music library, or rely on the random auto-fill capabilities of iTunes. Now you can have perfect playlists that fill all the available space on your player.

Capture and save the audio from an application with Audio Hijack. Save Internet music or radio shows to enjoy at any time, capture sound clips from your DVDs, and set timers to record even when you're away from your computer. Send your captured audio over to iTunes automatically and transfer to your iPod.

• Capture the audio from any application and listen to it when you want.
• Schedule unattended recordings - like a VCR - but much easer to program.

Key Features:

• Record and save the audio from any application.
• Capture audio directly from the source - so you only hear what you want, and avoid what you don't - such as system alerts, iChat beeps, or mail notifications.
• Instant capture button to record immediately whenever the urge hits.
• Scheduler to launch an application and record any time.
• Professional quality equalizer and excitifiers to enhance captured audio.
• Automatically send captured audio to iTunes and iPod, or launch any AppleScript.

You can record any streaming radio program, including RealPlayer, Windows Media Player and iTunes. In Windows Media Player, choose Get Info to get the URL for a stream. In RealOne Player, choose Clip Info to get the URL for a stream. In iTunes, choose Get Info on a stream in the Radio section or in the playlist to get its URL.

Podcasting is the new phenomenon of professional and homemade broadcasts (usually audio in MP3 format) posted to the Internet. Podcasts cover music, sports, humor, politics, movies, technology, and just about anything imaginable. Unlike streaming Internet radio, new podcasts are automatically downloaded to your iPod so you can listen when you want.

Join the podcast revolution with iPodderX. Browse and search the largest directory of podcasters from around the world. Learn a new language, catch up on the discussion of last night's game, or hear news from around the world. Subscribe to your favorites for fresh content delivered daily to iTunes and your iPod, and take your podcasts to go.

Key Benefits:

• Diverse assortment of fresh compelling content for your iPod, updated automatically.
• Personalized listening experience.

Key Features:

• Massive directory of podcasters, updated daily - filled with thousands of amateur and professional podcasters, such as NPR, Infinity Broadcasting, and the BBC.
• Subscription manager to track and download new shows from your favorite podcasters
• Intelligent storage management to optimize hard disk storage
• Supports audio podcasts and enhanced photo and video podcasts
• Integrated media viewer to watch video podcasts
• Automatically transfers podcasts to iTunes and iPod

Turn any written document, e-mail or web page into a spoken audio file using iSpeak It. Create your own audio books, listen to the news, or have your email read to you while you're commuting. Instead of reading it - you can now listen to it on your iPod.

• Enhance the iPod functionality by turning text documents into spoken audio.
• Catch up on written documents while on the go.
• An affordable alternative to audio books purchased from commercial services.

Key Features:

• Built-in support for PDF, Word, AppleWorks, RTF, HTML, RSS feed or text.
• Automatically load web pages, RSS feeds, Google news, and weather services on launch.
• Links to Project Gutenberg, the largest directory of non-copyrighted e-books.
• Powerful replacement rules, for more accurate text-to-speech conversion.
• Automatically split audio into multiple tracks, just like audiobooks.
• "Bookmarkable" audio, so you can continue where you left off, just like audiobooks.
• Send to iTunes and iPod with a single-click.