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Title: wave>mp3
Post by: ttrego2003 on September 21, 2006, 04:34:04 PM: is there a free program to convert wave to mp3 for free
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: rustoleum on September 21, 2006, 04:36:52 PM: EAC w/ Lame... it'll even name your files (assuming the disc is in freedb).

Edit: it'll definately convert WAVs that are already on your drive (Tools -> Compress WAVs), but it may not do the DB lookup and naming process unless you rip and encode directly from disc.
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: ttrego2003 on September 21, 2006, 04:49:23 PM: when i pull songs into itunes, they are not coverting to mp3
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: dnsacks on September 21, 2006, 05:01:42 PM: todd dbpoweramp will do this, I believe it's free for 30 days, invaluable to me so I bought it.
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: beefstew on September 21, 2006, 06:35:38 PM: do a search at www.download.com

there are TONS of freeware programs that will do this :)
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: RebelRebel on September 21, 2006, 07:06:15 PM: www.foobar2000.org

LOVE that program.
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: johnnyb on September 21, 2006, 07:07:56 PM: heres another http://www.mgshareware.com/
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: 612 on September 22, 2006, 11:36:25 AM: Quote from: Teddy on September 21, 2006, 07:06:15 PM
www.foobar2000.org

LOVE that program.

Teddy's right, foobar rules. This beast will play anything...I opened a 24 bit .flac file in it the other night. I love EAC too.
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: greenone on September 22, 2006, 02:55:05 PM: Quote from: Todd Trego on September 21, 2006, 04:49:23 PM
when i pull songs into itunes, they are not coverting to mp3

There's an mp3 convertor built right into iTunes...look for a "convert selection to mp3" menu item. Not sure where it is in the PC version, but the Mac version has it under the "Advanced" menu.
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: Roving Sign on September 22, 2006, 05:11:25 PM: Quote from: rustoleum on September 21, 2006, 04:36:52 PM
EAC w/ Lame... it'll even name your files (assuming the disc is in freedb).

Edit: it'll definately convert WAVs that are already on your drive (Tools -> Compress WAVs), but it may not do the DB lookup and naming process unless you rip and encode directly from disc.

Just be careful!!! - EAC is set to "Delete Source Files" by default when converting to MP3

...learned this the hard way...
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2006, 01:39:40 AM: mkw act will do it as well. I use and love dbpoweramp. I use foobar for playback.
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: it-goes-to-eleven on September 23, 2006, 09:08:55 AM: LAME is the only mp3 converter that matters. Nothing else comes close.
Title: Re: wave>mp3
Post by: Ryan Sims on September 23, 2006, 09:19:25 AM: Quote from: Freelunch on September 23, 2006, 09:08:55 AM
LAME is the only mp3 converter that matters. Nothing else comes close.

I agree. I use LAME with Foobar2000 for my iPod stuff.