good, QUICK mp3 ripper/encoder program?

[smallmovesal]

i want to make mp3s... what's a good program.. nexencode blows

 

[thefantom1]

Audio Catalyst

 

[smallmovesal]

do you have a link?

 

[thefantom1]

http://www.xingtech.com/mp3/audiocatalyst/

 

[smallmovesal]

merci beaucoup

 

[thefantom1]

Anytime for my friend in Black................

 

[malhavoc]

Audio Catalyst is garbage, the encoding sucks.

Try Audiograbber, the encoding is far superior.

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

 

[thefantom1]

Audio Catalyst is garbage, the encoding sucks.

Try Audiograbber, the encoding is far superior.

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

Explain the difference please....... audicatalyst has worked fine for me..... explain the encoding difference and the end result difference.....

Thanks

 

[BIG_I_69]

radium MP3 codec (based on Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec) is by far superior to anything else ... and it can be used with any wave editor - soundforge, wavelab, cool edit, etc

 

[BIG_I_69]

Explain the difference please....... audicatalyst has worked fine for me..... explain the encoding difference and the end result difference.....

Thanks

i think audiograbber supports the use of external codecs like radium's mp3 codec ...

 

[malhavoc]

i think audiograbber supports the use of external codecs like radium's mp3 codec ...

You are correct... I use the Lame encoder.

As for the difference in quality between encoders. Xing's encoding algorithm just plain sucks. It's slow, cuts off some highs and some lows, and I've found that there are intermittent periods of hissing in the background when encoded at any bitrate.

 

[TheProject]

I'd suggest CDex. You can get it off shareware.com. It's the fastest I've found to this point, and it still maintains good quality. Also not a huge download. Comes with the Lame codec.