polarbear
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free program for converting mp3s
anyone know of a good free (or cheap) downloadable program that i can get that will let me take a wav and convert it to mp3 with various different bitrate options? i just need to take this wav and reduce the quality a little bit to get the filesize down.
thanks
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RobertB
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Re:free program for converting mp3s
2011/10/07 23:57:58
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CDex is a popular choice, and the one I currently use.
It offers several bitrate conversions
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Re:free program for converting mp3s
2011/10/08 07:28:24
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Re:free program for converting mp3s
2011/10/08 09:22:22
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You can also google "lame mp3 encoder" and set it up as an option in sonar. Though, I don't remember how I did it, but I got the instructions from this forum.
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polarbear
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Re:free program for converting mp3s
2011/10/08 09:33:08
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thanks! cdex worked fine. a little goofy the way you have to go into options each time before hitting convert to change the quality settings, but hey, it's free and i needed it now :-)
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polarbear
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Re:free program for converting mp3s
2011/10/08 09:34:12
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i'll look into lame mp3 encoder. i know of it from other programs, but i've never had it working in sonar, that would actually be awesome. i'll take a look around for those instructions.
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Re:free program for converting mp3s
2011/10/08 10:02:53
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if you just want to convert files you can try foobar2000, its free and it works for me very well, if file size is the only consideration here you may consider the FLAC format as well, file size will be ~60-70% of the WAV and FLAC is lossless where mp3 is not, winamp supports FLAC natively and im other players do as well or have plugins available, anyway give foobar2000 a spin....... http://www.foobar2000.org/
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polarbear
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Re:free program for converting mp3s
2011/10/08 10:10:36
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well it's for a game i'm doing music for and i don't know if he can use flac files... not just for my own storage. i'll have to ask him though. and i'll take a look at foobar. i read about that before...
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Re:free program for converting mp3s
2011/10/08 13:31:45
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Wavepad It's free, a mighty fine audio editor and it converts to all the MP3 rates.
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Re:free program for converting mp3s
2011/10/09 14:15:53
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Re:free program for converting mp3s
2011/10/11 11:32:46
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