wav to mp3 converter

JMFOne · Post by **JMFOne** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:19 pm

Hi guys can any of you reccoment a good, free converter? I used to use LAME but my laptop had to be formatted. I have since tried to dload it off the net but it wont recognise the .exe file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers.

DJ Mike Beeds · Post by **DJ Mike Beeds** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:22 pm

Shuangs WAV to MP3 Converter does a great job of conversion and it's free at download.com. Hope that helps

JMFOne · Post by **JMFOne** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:39 pm

Thats great thanks alot!

SuperBassMexican · Post by **SuperBassMexican** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:48 pm

itunes

Atomikat · Post by **Atomikat** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:54 pm

levimoniz wrote:
SuperBassMexican wrote:itunes
What he said

+1 for itunes...

pamplemousse_mk2 · Post by **pamplemousse_mk2** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:02 pm

Hello,

iTunes is known to be one of the worst MP3 encoder. It is better to use lame-based software. Which OS do you use?

For Windows, there is dbPowerAmp, but I don't know if it is free. I don't know either if it uses Lame (I'm a Linux and Mac OS user).
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

Here is some links from Lame site:
http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.php#Windows

On Mac, I use Max:
http://sbooth.org/Max/

Bye.

Hometown Records NZ · Post by **Hometown Records NZ** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:23 am

Totally agree with your itunes comment, it's the worst.

For PC use CDex - very simple, solid and easy to use:

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/?q=download

For Mac I too use Max - very similar to CDex

Cheers
Dylan

lunabass · Post by **lunabass** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:38 am

dont all of these coverters use the same Fraunhofer code? how can one be worse than another?
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EDIT

just went away and had a little read! i was always under the illusion that they were all the same, which is quite obviously wrong

misteron · Post by **misteron** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:58 am

edit:

Crash · Post by **Crash** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:04 am

Stop chatting around, use Lame!

Here's a Windows GUI for Lame beginners that brings the Lame encoder along (not the most current version though) and offers an extensive help-file on everything you need to know about MP3 encoding.

http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

Here's an overview of software for all platforms:

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

Look here for latest binary/exe builds and another nice GUI called lameDROP that also supports OGG and FLAC as input:

http://www.rarewares.org/

For ripping CDs use Exact Audio Copy:

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Basta losers!

pamplemousse_mk2 · Post by **pamplemousse_mk2** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:31 pm

Crash wrote:Stop chatting around, use Lame!

This is what we say: CDex can use Lame, Max uses Lame.

Crash wrote:Here's a Windows GUI for Lame beginners that brings the Lame encoder along (not the most current version though) and offers an extensive help-file on everything you need to know about MP3 encoding.

Yes, this is just another GUI for Lame...

Crash wrote:Basta losers!

nbinder · Post by **nbinder** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:37 pm

On my Mac I love "All2MP3". Drop a wav on it and get an mp3 in the quality you selected in the dropdown box.

Can't imagine there could be an easier way....

misteron · Post by **misteron** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:26 pm

pamplemousse_mk2 wrote:iTunes is known to be one of the worst MP3 encoder

So is iTunes good for ripping CDs to wav?

pamplemousse_mk2 · Post by **pamplemousse_mk2** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:18 pm

I would like to say that ripping should cause no problem with any rip software, as it is just a binary copy of the data of the audio CD to data file, and adding the WAV header (frequency, bitrate, ...) at the beginning of the file. There is no destructive/lossless modification like mp3 encoding. .