Just wondering what program anyone else uses to convert CD's to mp3's or wav to mp3's? :round:

currently I use nero to get wav files then I use this great dos encoder called b???????.exe to make really low kb yet good sounding mp3's

Im using Music Match Jukebox to do Cd's 2 MP3. I Dont bother converting MP3 2 Wav as my burning software ( Prassi Primo ) does this automatically when burning to disc, Superb.

Why is this board soooooo sloooooow just lately

Try freeware dBPowerAMP and use the dMC Audio CD Input from www.dbpoweramp.com (rip to wave and convert or rip directly to MP3).

Or try CDex at http://www.cdex.n3.net/ .:)

Assuming: You want mp3s of high quality (128 kbps and above).
You're willing to learn a bit about what you're doing.

EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to get from audio CD to WAV
LAME (Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder) from .wav to mp3.

Start here --
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/.

The best place to learn all about it is here:
http://www.ping.be/satcp/tutorials.htm

One neat feature of EAC is that it can be set to rip an audio CD and after each track launch LAME and delete the intermediate wav file after the mp3 is made.

If you are using an encoder called Blade, I will suggest you switch to Lame. The blade encoder has not been developed much lately, but Lame is under continous development, and sounds much better IMHO.
Here are a link to a site with a lot of listening tests, and viewpoints on the different encoders out there: http://fastforward.iwarp.com/
Here is another one, but r3mix is a bit biased towards the Lame codec, I think, but his results seems unquestionable.
http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/analysis.htm

Get your copy of the free lame encoder from http://mitiok.cjb.net/
You can use it as a dos encoder if you like, but it is much more convinient to use dbPoweramp, www.dbpoweramp.com , or EAC or CDex as mentioned above. All these free programs can acess the lame encoder, so you don`t have to fiddle around in dos. :)
As a bonus, you can connect to cddb while on the net, and then the songs will be named automatically. :idea:

Originally posted by fullautonerd
Assuming: You want mp3s of high quality (128 kbps and above).
You're willing to learn a bit about what you're doing.

EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to get from audio CD to WAV
LAME (Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder) from .wav to mp3.

...One neat feature of EAC is that it can be set to rip an audio CD and after each track launch LAME and delete the intermediate wav file after the mp3 is made.

In most cases you will get very good quality from ripping with other rippers that are much faster than EAC. If you are interested in the best quality why rip to MP3, it's no longer an Exact Audio Copy? In certain cases EAC would be the best tool, but IMHO it is not for most cases. If the CD has too many damaged areas EAC will virtually never finish, if it has none there is no advantage to using it (for example ripping a new CD). For CDs with a few bad spots it could be the best tool.

As for launching LAME and deleting the wav file afterwards, dBPowerAMP is capable of ripping the track and converting to MP3 using LAME in memory. This will speed the proess even more.