soxfan;444338 Wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions on dbpoweramp. I've read lots of good things > about the program over the years, here and in other forums. Am I wrong > in thinking that this program is not free though? I thought I've read > where it costs $30 or so. Certainly reasonable, but it's not like I'm > going to use it all the time. I'll have to take a look at foobar2000. > > > Thanks again, > John
There is a free version. The key things missing from the free version are that you cannot encode LAME mp3 (you can only use the old BLADE encoder) and you cannot set it up to delete the original source file once the conversion has been made. The CDE ripper is either not part of the free version or is very limited. LAME mp3, aside from better encoding, also creates gapless tags that are used by many players (iPod, Squeezebox, etc.). A free application that will do LAME mp3 would be foobar2000. Since you are converting from m4a, I'm not sure how that will work under Wine on Linux. It may require QuickTime to be installed - not sure how that would work under Wine. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 3 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 27,462 songs, 2,276 albums, 434 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66081 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
