Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:58:39 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: making MP3s to fill ymnew HDD [LIB]
1) Use anything with the LAME MP3 encoder built-in. LAME MP3 encoder is currently the world's best higher-bitrate MP3 encoder (for MP3s at >128Kbps), and is extremely competitive at 128Kbps with the F.IIS baseline encoder. Once you've turned on the ABR/VBR/--alt-preset settings in LAME, it'll blow the other encoders out of the water. 2) http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/ has a full list of software that uses LAME. My free favorites? a) CDEX - RIPs CDs to WAVE or MP3 files, CDDB support, and all that. Pretty much all you'll need in a single download. http://www.cdex.n3.net/ b) If you've already got WAVE files on your HD, you can use RazorLAME to convert them to MP3s. Nice Windows-based configuration of LAME settings for those that don't want to use the DOS verison of LAME. http://www.dors.de/razorlame/ My Pay for favorites? a) Audiograbber.net Pretty much does everything the same as CDEX above, so only a few extras outside of the basic Ripping & Encoding really are of note. Eg. can capture audio from tape or other linein sources, automatically breaking each track up into seperate files based on the silence in between. But for sure, you're not going to get any better quality from the encoding vs. CDEX. 2) In LAME or any other program, using '--alt-preset standard' will get you pretty darn good VBR encodings right off the bat. See documentation for more presets. 3) A CD takes only 10-30 minutes to RIP, and encoding, even on a slower L50, won't take more than a few hours. ===== adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
