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Title: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Ernest on 15 Jan 2007, 10:17
Recommend me some good programs, please.  I must do this.
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Johnny C on 15 Jan 2007, 10:24
I'd suggest magic.
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Hat on 15 Jan 2007, 10:27
What format are you trying to convert from? Because I've never had any luck with any m4u or aac files, it always sounds like shit. I converted a King Crimson album from .flac to mp3 once and it sounded ok with Easy Audio Converter, but it still wasn't fantastic quality.
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Dimmukane on 15 Jan 2007, 11:57
dbPower AMP Music Converter.  If you don't want to pay...well...let's just say that I'm 100% positive that you can find a way to get it without paying for it.  It does ape, flac, ogg, m4a, mpc, pretty much all of them, not including some emulator sound files or other really obscure types.
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: SpacemanSpiff on 15 Jan 2007, 14:11
WinAmp's diskwriter output plug-in should also do the trick, although if you export it as wav (which I would recommend), you would have to convert it into MP3 afterwards so it's two steps. But it's free and not as much hassle and sounds decent.
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: 8ilbo on 15 Jan 2007, 14:27
I used to use GX Transcoder quite a bit - its pretty powerful and easy to use

www.germanixsoft.de/ (http://www.germanixsoft.de/) Though I think the websites down atm...just have a google around for it.

Remember you lose quality when you transcode
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Doctor Funk on 15 Jan 2007, 14:55
What format are you trying to convert from? Because I've never had any luck with any m4u or aac files, it always sounds like shit. I converted a King Crimson album from .flac to mp3 once and it sounded ok with Easy Audio Converter, but it still wasn't fantastic quality.

If nothing else, iTunes is quite capable of converting from aac to mp3 and a number of other formats. It's slightly non-obvious since it doesn't see itself as a media conversion tool, but it's fairly simple. Pick a media type under Preferences>>Advanced>>Importing, and any file in the library can be converted to it. The only thing it won't do is convert copy-protected files... which require the incredibly elegant  :roll: procedure of burning them to CD and then ripping them from the same CD.
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Patrick on 15 Jan 2007, 16:22
dbPower AMP Music Converter.  If you don't want to pay...well...let's just say that I'm 100% positive that you can find a way to get it without paying for it.  It does ape, flac, ogg, m4a, mpc, pretty much all of them, not including some emulator sound files or other really obscure types.

I have an old-ass version of this program, and it's been very useful to me for converting from .wav to .mp3 (the recording program I use for my work saves everything as .wav). Unfortunately it's only been useful for that. Still very nice to have, but a pain since I can't use it for anything else anymore.

I'm with Doctor Funk and Tommy though, iTunes does a fantastic job of this.
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Kai on 15 Jan 2007, 20:46
iTunes would be great if it would incorporate flac files so that when I accidentally download them I can still use them without having to find a fucking converter.
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Dimmukane on 15 Jan 2007, 21:30
iTunes would be great if it would incorporate flac files so that when I accidentally download them I can still use them without having to find a fucking converter.

which is why I use db instead of itunes, EAC, winamp...etc.  I needed something that would also cover flac, ape, ogg, mpc stuff.  Most audio converters only support 2 of those 4
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Ernest on 16 Jan 2007, 18:58
It's m4a's to mp3's I need.  I'm trying to convert the files and then compress them so as to get them on my band's Myspace page.  We've got two of three done so far.
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Melodic on 16 Jan 2007, 22:49
m4a to mp3 is as simple as opening iTunes, going to Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Importing, then choose mp3 in the "Import using..." field. Click okay, highlight the songs you want to convert, right-click, select "Convert to mp3". Hell of simple.
Title: Re: converting non-mp3s to mp3s
Post by: Ernest on 17 Jan 2007, 00:19
Thank you.