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

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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 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.

sdtPikachu · 10-13-2003, 04:27 PM

The program you want is CDex. Completely free, lets you encode to absolutely any format you want, complete piece of urine to use, and you don't have to pirate anything.

http://www.cdex.n3.net/

Anyone who downloads and uses software from P2P programs is an idiot.

Canyarion · 10-13-2003, 06:15 PM

Right now I'm very comfy with MusicMatch. The ads for upgrading it annoy me though....
I'm having some problems with media players, but I'll post it in another thread some day.

Oh thanks by the way.

Lord Germano · 10-14-2003, 06:21 AM

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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

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.

GameMaster · 10-14-2003, 11:46 PM

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 · 10-14-2003, 11:59 PM

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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 · 10-15-2003, 11:15 AM

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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 · 10-15-2003, 01:03 PM

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.