Looking for best Program to convert CD's to MP3s

Ericnmel99

Ericnmel99

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I've been using Windows media player to convert my CD's to WMA files, but i want a program that will convert them to MP3 format instead. Does anyone know the best (and cheapest of course) program that will do this? any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
Audiograbber.
Used to be shareware, now freeware.
You may need to download an additional LAMEnc.dll thing but the help files and Audiograbber site tell you what you need.
Quick, easy, flexible, and of course free.
It can convert directly to MP3, or MP3 via .wav, delete the wav, keep the wav, etc.
 
[quote name='dtcarson']Audiograbber.
Used to be shareware, now freeware.
You may need to download an additional LAMEnc.dll thing but the help files and Audiograbber site tell you what you need.
Quick, easy, flexible, and of course free.
It can convert directly to MP3, or MP3 via .wav, delete the wav, keep the wav, etc.[/quote]

My sentinment exactly. It doesn't do a bad job on it's own, but definately go for installing the LAME codec. After install you have to config audiograbber to use it, but it's fairly straightforward. Easy to use, fast, freeDB support - I use it constantly.
 
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Freerip[/quote]

Freerip is a HUGE POS. Not exactly a high-fidelity program. The ONLY software good for ripping audio tracks is a combination of Exact Audio Copy and LAME.
 
EAC and LAME works perfectly for me. I used to use freerip but it sometimes degrades the quality of the MP3 file because, well, its freeware.
 
I just use iTunes, it does a pretty decent job and will rip them into mp3 or mp4 (and some other formats) fairly quickly - just finished converting nearly 500 CD's :(
 
Ok, now what if I want to convert from WMA to MP3 what would be a good program for that??? Ive tried a few but it would only do the first minute since they were the trial versions
 
I would think you'd see a considerable quality loss going from WMA to MP3 - probably best to re-rip the original copy - although there *might* be some software out there to do that without data loss, from what I've read it's difficult to do that kind of conversion.
 
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