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wav to mp3 converter
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:19 pm
by JMFOne
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:22 pm
by DJ Mike Beeds
Shuangs WAV to MP3 Converter does a great job of conversion and it's free at download.com. Hope that helps
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:39 pm
by JMFOne
Thats great thanks alot!
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:48 pm
by SuperBassMexican
itunes
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:54 pm
by Atomikat
levimoniz wrote:SuperBassMexican wrote:itunes
What he said
+1 for itunes...
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:02 pm
by pamplemousse_mk2
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:23 am
by Hometown Records NZ
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
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:38 am
by lunabass
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
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:58 am
by misteron
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:04 am
by Crash
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!
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:31 pm
by pamplemousse_mk2
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!
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:37 pm
by nbinder
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....
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:26 pm
by misteron
pamplemousse_mk2 wrote:iTunes is known to be one of the worst MP3 encoder
So is iTunes good for ripping CDs to wav?
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:18 pm
by pamplemousse_mk2
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. .