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Best audio converter?
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| Gauss |
Any suggestions? Need it mainly for converting mp3s from one bit rate to another. :)
Thanks. |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by Gauss
Any suggestions? Need it mainly for converting mp3s from one bit rate to another. :)
Thanks. |
if you are doing bitrate conversion well it's just plain stupid to do because of generation loss, compression artifact etc.
Use Lame.
more info here:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index...and_source_code
if that's too much for you to handle just get Lame 3.97 and get winlame to do your conversions.
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
iTunes? |
worst codecs ever :wtf: |
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| Gauss |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
if you are doing bitrate conversion well it's just plain stupid to do because of generation loss, compression artifact etc. |
I usually convert 2xx kbps VBR to 192 kbps, that way there are no losses, right? |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by Gauss
I usually convert 2xx kbps VBR to 192 kbps, that way there are no losses, right? |
you are going from one lossless format to another so there's always going to be some form of degradation and I don't mean just lower quality because it's a lower bit rate.
A file directly ripped to 192 kbps will sound better than a file ripped to 224 and then converted to 192 ....
but really I bet you don't care if you're doing this .. btw why are you doing this? |
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| Gauss |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
btw why are you doing this? |
I'm having problems cutting VBR mp3 files so I convert them to the closest quality (usually 192 kbps) and then cut them. |
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| EXTREMUM |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
you are going from one lossless format to another so there's always going to be some form of degradation and I don't mean just lower quality because it's a lower bit rate.
A file directly ripped to 192 kbps will sound better than a file ripped to 224 and then converted to 192 ....
but really I bet you don't care if you're doing this .. btw why are you doing this? |
Truth spoken...^^^
Your best bet, is to sacrifice some hard drive space, and RE-encode your existing MP3s to 320kbps, and save your future files to 192kbps.
Lame or CDex are good choices. |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by Konijn
dbpoweramp |
also a very good choice but it isn't free unfortunately ;) |
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| bidor |
| quote: | Originally posted by Konijn
dbpoweramp |
+999, have been using this for a long time. good program!:) |
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