wav to mp3?

[stacer]

I'm the farthest thing from an expert you could find on this. I've copied some of my own cds to my laptop so I don't have to carry all my cds around with me when I'm at school, and I know that mp3s use less space, right? Is there a way of converting from .wav to .mp3? A program or something? If it's a program, would you guys recommend one in particular?

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I like www.Goldwave.com . It lets you rip them from the CD straight to mp3 and you can set the quality from stereo to mono, and from the lowest to 310 Khz or whatever the frequency is. It isn't free, but there are *ahem* ways around it that I've taken. If you want to quandridize this route just give me a ring at the not-so snail mail address. If not well then, you have a toll limit and it stops you at $1.00. Each action is $0.01. blah blah blah, use it, try it, love it. Very User Friendly. And there are other functions for the more perverse.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I have a program called Cool Edit that will do the conversion, but yeah, it's a lot easier to rip them straight to mp3. Freeware like MusicMatch would pull it off. I have another program that's simpler than MM too, but I can't remember the name. I'll pull it up when I'm at home and let you know how to get it.

[JP Dogberry]

As an audiophile, there is only one way to get a perfect sounding MP3. Find a program (Do a google search, I'm lazy) called EAC, or Exact Audio Copy. Use this to extract the wav from the cds, but if you've already done it, it doesn't matter,  this is just the way to get the highest quality ones. While configuring EAC (You need to) it should mention a site to get a program called LAME.exe. Get this, and follow all the instructions. EAC will rip the track, automatically open LAME and convert to a perfect sounding MP3. It uses variable bitrate, and it seriously works well. It's also free.

So Exact Audio Copy, Lame. Do a search, and you should also come up with soem good tutorial sites, and learn a lot while you're at it.

[stacer]

Thanks for the info guys. I went with the free one, the one Jam suggested. It's working really well.

[Eagle Prince]

If you're using Windows, you should already have a program to do this.  You can also rip your CDs to WMA which I believe are supposed to be even smaller than mp3.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

ick.

Just, ick.

[stacer]

Yeah, but you can only use WMA in Windows Media Player. I like the option of using any player I want.

[Tabea]

I live with Belle, if you were wondering.

[Tabea]

I live with Belle, if you were wondering.

[Tabea]

Who else is on and what is the topic of discussion?

[Eagle Prince]

ick.

Just, ick.

Heh heh heh.

Hey, I never said it had to be WMA, just that it was an option.  It has an option for about any format you want.  Although I do also have the XP Plus thing, and I'm not sure if its standard for all Windows XP or just XP Plus.  So you could do wma, mp3, aiff, au, wav, etc.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Saint, could you let me know the name of the simplier CD to mp3 freeware program that you have?

[JP Dogberry]

Once you set it up, EAC is as simple as it comes...just put the cd in, open the prgram, press MP3, and choose a destination folder.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'm blanking. Reming me tonight