best free WAV to MP3 converter ???

Jonny B · Post by **Jonny B** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:12 pm

Hi guys how are ya all?

whats the best wav to MP3 converter I can download for free online?

I need something which dosnt leave any sound gaps as its for a dj mix.

cheers

JB

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:18 pm

itunes

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:20 pm

Jonny B wrote:Hi guys how are ya all?

whats the best wav to MP3 converter I can download for free online?

I need something which dosnt leave any sound gaps as its for a dj mix.

I believe that there is a small gap inherent in the mp3 format, so you will need to save your entire set as one long audio file to make sure everyone hears it right.

Jonny B · Post by **Jonny B** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:35 pm

Machinate wrote:
Jonny B wrote:Hi guys how are ya all?

whats the best wav to MP3 converter I can download for free online?

I need something which dosnt leave any sound gaps as its for a dj mix.
I believe that there is a small gap inherent in the mp3 format, so you will need to save your entire set as one long audio file to make sure everyone hears it right.

really? im sure that some mp3 encoders can do it without the delay

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:38 pm

even itunes has extra processing that goes on in order tot make gapless playback. If you're sure it's out there... then why are you asking?

robbmasters · Post by **robbmasters** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:51 pm

Command line version of LAME works for me. Dunno about those gaps though...

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:52 pm

I've used itunes to convert gapless DJ CDs to mp3 and then make CD copies and didn't have any issues with silence or skips between tracks.

cotdagoo · Post by **cotdagoo** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:43 am

lamedropXP works wonders.. uses the lame encoder and its drag & drop

wildtek · Post by **wildtek** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:53 am

I've read (don't remember where but a sure source, pro audio website like Sound On Sound or Computer Music) that the MP3 compression included in i-Tunes was not that good and that LAME was far the better encoder actually available.

I use LAME since months and never had any problem.

There is lot of 'skins/GUI' for LAME that help you to use it in a graphical environement.

If you're looking for qualitative encoding, go for LAME, if it's just for archiving i-Tunes is easy to use as hell.

Hope this help.

http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php

mkelly · Post by **mkelly** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:17 am

robbmasters wrote:Command line version of LAME works for me. Dunno about those gaps though...

I use these command line options...
lame -h -ms -b 160 --nogapout "mp3s" --nogap --lowpass 19.5 *.wav

So that will encode a series of wav files into a subfolder called mp3s. You can probably get away without the --nogapout "mp3s" but I find it handy to separate out my wavs from mp3s (I use this as part of a bigger ripping script.)

It's not a perfect method, but for me resulted in no gaps on some playback devices - remember that sometimes it's the playback device that adds the gap, not the encoder.

best free WAV to MP3 converter ???

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