Roxio has announced Roxio Copy & Convert 3 in what the company is calling the "ultimate solution for managing, transferring and enjoying digital entertainment on PCs, set-top players or mobile devices".

The new software, which costs £19.99 and that will be available in April will allow users to make copies of personal CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs, but also enables consumers to move their favourite movies and music to portable devices such as iPods, PSPs, and mobile phones.

According to Roxio, the new software also adds greater file support, batch conversion capabilities, automatic music cataloguing, and the ability to backup iPod music to any PC.

Roxio Copy & Convert translates the most popular audio and video formats today for playback on a portable device, PC or DVD player. Video format support includes DivX, WMV, H.264 (AVC), 3GP (mobile phone video), MPEG, TiVo, MPEG2, MPEG4, DVR-MS (Windows Media Center TV) and DVD-Video. Supported audio formats include MP3, M4A (iTunes), WAV, WMA, AAC, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, Dolby Audio (AC3), audio CD, and audio on DVD-Video.