i want to finally crack mp3 please help.

Shahid

Regular Member
Joined
Jan 1, 2000
Messages
610
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Age
46
My Satellite Setup
Sony KLV26HG2 LCD TV, Humax HD-CI 2000 on a Fixed Sky/Astra/Hotbird.
Cerebro Card. Infinity USB Phonix. Dragon Cam v4.1 w/Firecrypt & Loader Card.
My Location
London UK
I have a pc 128ram
1 cdrw LITE ON 48x12x48x
20 gig harddrive

I have cleaned and polished all my cd's
I want to convert them to mp3 on my harddrive
I have download so many mp3 coverters / encoders. I am totally bemused which one i need to do a simple.

I want to convert my cds to mp3 . I want to do it at least x4 speed or above. Which software will do this. must be FREE!
 

rolfw

Believe it when I see it Admin.
Staff member
Joined
May 1, 1999
Messages
38,292
Reaction score
1,615
Points
113
My Satellite Setup
Technomate 5402 HD M2 Ci, DM7000s, Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Promax HD Ranger+ spectrum analyser.
My Location
Berkshire
There is a load of free conversion software Shahid, you'll find much of it on www.tucows.com, what I would suggest though, is a memory upgrade on your computer, you really need at least half a Gigabyte for these type of jobs, and it is pretty cheap at the moment.
 

PoloMint

Super Minty Mod
Joined
Dec 31, 1999
Messages
1,588
Reaction score
1
Points
0
My Satellite Setup
1200cc with 100,000,000,000 neurons and 100,000,000,000,000 connections
My Location
Fife, Scotland
Also when you find an encoder check the bitrate it encodes at.

For true ‘near CD’ quality you should really use 192kbits/sec (or higher). 128k is about ‘average’ quality, don’t go below that unless you absolutely have to.

At 192k a 5 min track will be just under 7MB, how much hard drive space and how many CDs do you have?

Also, I know it’s not free, but I use Easy CD-DA Extractor, once you get the hang of it it’s a very useful application. Also if you are resourceful the $30 registration isn’t an issue ;)

http://www.tucows.com/preview/218449.html

As Rolf says you should look at getting some more RAM, the processor speed is also important in how fast it will convert. Anything above 300mhz or so should do 4x. My old P3 450 did about 6-8x.
 
Top