A great .mp3 encoder for SONAR

I really like both these programs, there are alot of .mp3 encoders  out there but the sound quality per bitrate of the Xilisioft converter is EXCELLENT.

It sure has a place on the Internet...like these forums...

I don't, I just bought the Xilisoft Ripper Gold Pack for like $35.00 years ago and love it and I shared that with everyone, THANK YOU!

LAME = greater

All for the low, low price of free.

Yeah why wouldn't you use LAME, it's free and prolly what's inside of the other ones anyhow.

Sure, it takes a few minutes to learn how to set a command-line prompt...don't make me tell you DOS like you never heard of it! 


Haven't checked out the tagger tho. 

...wicked


Yeah why wouldn't you use LAME, it's free and prolly what's inside of the other ones anyhow.

Sure, it takes a few minutes to learn how to set a command-line prompt...don't make me tell you DOS like you never heard of it! 


Haven't checked out the tagger tho. 

No need to enter any command lines. The Razorlame interface gives you access to all of the LAME options via a conventional Windows interface and it's also free. It even does batch conversions.

The deal with MP3 is that somebody (the Fraunhofer Institute, hope I spelled it right) owns it and if you want to create an encoder you have to pay them. A lot.

The LAME devs managed to reverse-engineer the encoder without using any proprietary code or algorithms, and have paid nothing to Fraunhofer. Technically we are probably all accessories to copyright infringement by using LAME. However, the Fraunhofer folks haven't gone after them because the product is given away and there is consequently no money to be made by pursuing them.

They may have also learned something from the GIF fiasco, which resulted in what had once been the most popular graphics format on the internet to virtually disappear from the face of the earth.

A consequence of the licensing costs is that the vast majority of applications that produce MP3s do so by calling LAME. It's unlikely that a $40 product has licensed the codec from Fraunhofer and so probably uses LAME. Every application I'm aware of that creates MP3s natively is in the $300 and up price range, e.g. Sound Forge and Adobe Audition. Part of that price goes to the Fraunhofer Institute.

Since most applications actually use LAME to do the actual encoding, this would suggest that none of these "MP3 encoders" you see advertised are actually any different from one another in terms of sound quality.

Not that I am questioning the OP's experience. LAME has a boatload of options, many of which affect sound quality. Even a program that simply lets you exercise those options without first knowing all their ramifications is still worthwhile.

Mr. bitflipper, are you a machine language guy...I used to be on my commodore 64, I made one program that used the interupt vector to rapdly change the color of the border...down to the scanlines...I miss that stuff.

I'm listening to "No Sure Thing" right now, it fits me life really well, powerfull song & beauiful is that you singing?

What does that equation mean, I'm a big PI fan, it's in my TRUST MEDIA Logo and i know it to 20 digits 3.1415926535897932345