What's the best program to convert .wav to .mp3??

Canyarion · 09-05-2003, 03:21 PM

I have a lot of CD's to convert, so far I've tried 2 programs to do so. The first one was a very cheap one from download.com and I had to name all the files myself and additional info (like lenght and quality) wasn't saved in the file.
The other one was MusicMatch, which was good because it was so much easier (it searches the online database to see what CD you're converting, you don't have to name a thing), BUT the converted files were crap! Bad quality...

So now I'm asking you experts: what program do you use?!

Thanks!

Null · 09-05-2003, 04:51 PM

i use music match to put it on my ipod.

tip for it... CHANGE THE QUALITY SETTINGS.

you can convert it into VERY good quality. more quality then you need.

use it more, understand it, love it, hate it, it still works very fast and has best quality.

Canyarion · 09-06-2003, 04:13 AM

Hm ok.... I guess I'll try the better quality then.

Thanks.

GameMaster · 09-06-2003, 05:20 PM

iTunes.

Let me guess, you don't have a Mac, right?

Oh well, at least I tried.

bobcat · 09-06-2003, 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GameMaster

iTunes.

Let me guess, you don't have a Mac, right?

Oh well, at least I tried.

I had a dream last night where EVERYBODY I know was asking me what I wanted for Xmas and I had nothing to say coz I didn't want anything. Then suddenly I thought of it. A powerbook.

Well anyways.......moving right along.

Jonbo298 · 09-07-2003, 04:26 PM

Find an expensive program on the 'net and then get it from KaZaa Lite. Or if the program wants a keycode, keygens are great.

I don't know what to recommend because I use a few programs here and there.

thatmariolover · 10-14-2003, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

iTunes.

Let me guess, you don't have a Mac, right?

Oh well, at least I tried.

I was just about to say that

However, Apple's advertising a job position for a Senior Programmer to be in charge of developing iTunes for Windows. So... It's coming...

sdtPikachu · 10-14-2003, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by thatmariolover

iTunes for Windows. So... It's coming...

I'd strill never use it unless it'll let me encode with exdternal codecs, namely Ogg Vorbis (music), FLAC (lossless music compression) and Speex (speech compression), all codecs. iTunes may be nice, personally I think it's a bloated and clunky interface. CDex for Windows, and either GRIP or command line tools in Linux.

Not that I don't like Macs, but there are better encoders out there than iTunes.

Lord Germano · 10-14-2003, 06:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Canyarion

I have a lot of CD's to convert, so far I've tried 2 programs to do so. The first one was a very cheap one from download.com and I had to name all the files myself and additional info (like lenght and quality) wasn't saved in the file.
The other one was MusicMatch, which was good because it was so much easier (it searches the online database to see what CD you're converting, you don't have to name a thing), BUT the converted files were crap! Bad quality...

So now I'm asking you experts: what program do you use?!

Thanks!

I recomend EAC, or exact audio copy. It does what the name promises to cd's.

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/eac6.html