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Some users have asked why they would use or upgrade to Media Rage, when MP3 Rage is available and seems to have more tools than Media Rage. We hope that this table clarifies what each product offers. In a nutshell, MP3 Rage has a few more tools for working with MP3s and runs of Mac OS 9, but it does not work with AAC, FLAC, BWF, AIFF, WAVE, or Ogg Vorbis files, nor does it support Unicode tag data. Also, the tools in Media Rage have been revamped to include many new features that MP3 Rage tools do not have. We suggest Media Rage over MP3 Rage, unless you really have a use for some of the tools that are not included in Media Rage, or are limited to using OS9. If there is a tool you would really like to see make it into Media Rage, please let us know.

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Feature	Media Rage 2.5	MP3 Rage 5.8.3
Unicode data read/write	√
MP3 tag read/write	√	√
MP4 (AAC) info read/write	√
Ogg Vorbis Comment read/write	√
BWF (Broadcast WAVE) read/write	√
AIFF read/write	√
FLAC Vorbis Comment read/write	√
WAVE read/write	√
EXIF read	√
Advanced RegEx Support	√
Multi-threaded application	√
Tool: Metadata (e.g. ID3) Import/Export	√
Supports decimal BPM values	√
Uses Mac OS X widgets (sheets, toolbars)	√
Flexible post processing lists	√
Tool: Find and Replace Data	√
Tool: Media Scrubber	√
Event Log	√
Finder Contextual Menu Plugin	√	√
Runs on Mac OS 9		√
Runs on Mac OS X	√	√
Tool: QuickEdit	√	√
Tool: Multple file QuickEdit	√	√
Tool: Album Browser	√	√
Tool: Artwork and Custom Folder Icon Tool	√
Tool: Player (for sampling files)	√	√
Tool: Catalog Creator	√	√
Tool: Data Changer	√	√
Tool: Duplicate Finder	√	√
Tool: Dashboard and Toolbar	√	√
Tool: Internet Artwork Search	√	√
Tool: Convert Filenames To Data	√	√
Tool: Renamer	√	√
Tool: Finder	√	√
Tool: Track Numberer	√	√
Tool: Volume Adjuster (for MP3s)		√
Tool: Tag Data Mover	√	√
Tool: Artwork Browser	√	√
Tool: CDDB/FreeDB Tagger	√	√
Tool: Lyric Browser	√	√
Tool: Organizer	√	√