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

[GameMaster]

iTunes wasn't designed for encoding so your argument is invalid...

If Apple chose to make a Mac program specially designed for encoding though, it would be far superior to any Linux application for many years.

[Null]

Originally Posted by GameMaster

iTunes wasn't designed for encoding so your argument is invalid...

If Apple chose to make a Mac program specially designed for encoding though, it would be far superior to any Linux application for many years.

lol. *lists everything apple doesnt have, or doesnt have in thier programs*


oh.... well... apple could make them all and do em better if they wanted to, they just um dont want to.

[Yoda9864]

Originally Posted by Null

lol. *lists everything apple doesnt have, or doesnt have in thier programs*


oh.... well... apple could make them all and do em better if they wanted to, they just um dont want to.

Lol. Macs are great, but I love bashing them.

But anyways, I don't know if you still need a program or not. I use Windows Media Player to convert to WMA's (smaller than Mp3's with the same quality).

I also use RealOnePlayer to go to Mp3's. ROP can only rip at 96kbps but after a short free download you can go all the way up to 320kbps.

Either program has very easy interface. Has a list of the songs on the CD, click "Get CD Info" and all the information from the net is found about the CD. Then just check the songs you want to rip, and click "Copy CD." Very easy to use (and very good quality rips).


EDIT: maybe when you rip with MusicMatch, you get crappy results because you don't have a powerful enough computer, or bad CD-rom drive. That uses to happen to me when I had my old computer. Just a thought, not saying that's the reason.

[sdtPikachu]

If Apple chose to make a Mac program specially designed for encoding though, it would be far superior to any Linux application for many years.

Uh, hate to call "fanboy", but I feel it has to be granted in this case. Saying that anything Apple produces is going to be superior to anything else made for any other system is a ridiculous argument.

Originally Posted by Yoda9864

But anyways, I don't know if you still need a program or not. I use Windows Media Player to convert to WMA's (smaller than Mp3's with the same quality).

I also use RealOnePlayer to go to Mp3's. ROP can only rip at 96kbps but after a short free download you can go all the way up to 320kbps.

The Realplayer MP3 encoder is a pile of pants. If you want good MP3's, use LAME of the Fraunhofer encoder. A high quality LAME rip sound better to my ears than a WMA for equivalent bitrate (plus of course I despise the WMA format), but neither of them are as good as an ogg.

Originally Posted by Yoda9864

Either program has very easy interface. Has a list of the songs on the CD, click "Get CD Info" and all the information from the net is found about the CD. Then just check the songs you want to rip, and click "Copy CD." Very easy to use (and very good quality rips).

Neither as good as GRIP or CDex IMHO ;P I don't think there's a ripping app out there that doesn't connect to a CDDB these days, is there?

Originally Posted by Yoda9864

EDIT: maybe when you rip with MusicMatch, you get crappy results because you don't have a powerful enough computer, or bad CD-rom drive. That uses to happen to me when I had my old computer. Just a thought, not saying that's the reason.

Both CDex and GRIP use an open source library called CDparanoia to rip the CD's. Although it can make rips slower, it does a full error check on every track and can repair scratches and make up for dicky CD drives.

All other things aside, I've used practically every piece of popular ripping software around, including iTunes etc etc. EAC is prolly the best overall, but I didn't think it was worth the money compared to the completely free CDex and/or GRIP. Seriously, check out CDex. What have you got to lose? It's completely free, and you don't even need to install it if you download the .zip version.