[stv]

Dinosaur that I am, I don't deal much with mp3s, but now I find that I
need to do some mix
conversions to mp3s.

What's the current 'state of the industry' for making mp3s? Ok...
'state of the art,' too...

I use Macs.

Many thanks,

stv

[Don Pearce]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:35:26 -0000, stv
wrote:

Dinosaur that I am, I don't deal much with mp3s, but now I find that I
need to do some mix
conversions to mp3s.

What's the current 'state of the industry' for making mp3s? Ok...
'state of the art,' too...

I use Macs.

Many thanks,

stv

I think Lame is still up near, if not right at the top for MP3
creation.

d

--
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

[hank alrich]

stv wrote:

Dinosaur that I am, I don't deal much with mp3s, but now I find that I
need to do some mix
conversions to mp3s.

What's the current 'state of the industry' for making mp3s? Ok...
'state of the art,' too...

I use Macs.

This is a good question to put into DAW-Mac:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/daw-mac/


I just converted some tunes using iTunes. Worked okay, but I'm new
enough at mp3ing that my opinion isn't worth much, even to me.

--
ha
Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam

[Marko @ Spielberg Audio Labs]

http://www.frontendaudio.com/BIAS_Pe...Mac_p/2075.htm



"stv" wrote in message
ups.com...
Dinosaur that I am, I don't deal much with mp3s, but now I find that I
need to do some mix
conversions to mp3s.

What's the current 'state of the industry' for making mp3s? Ok...
'state of the art,' too...

I use Macs.

Many thanks,

stv

[Chris Whealy]

stv wrote:
Dinosaur that I am, I don't deal much with mp3s, but now I find that I need to do some mix conversions to mp3s.

What's the current 'state of the industry' for making mp3s? Ok...
'state of the art,' too...

I use Macs.

Commercial products often include their own MP3 tools, but if you want a
widely used freebie tool, download LameLib. Other free products like
Audacity assume that some variant of Lame will be available for MP3
manipulation.

For Mac, you can get it from he
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23898

Chris W

--
The voice of ignorance speaks loud and long,
But the words of the wise are quiet and few.
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[Manuel Marino]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:40:15 GMT, (Don Pearce)
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:35:26 -0000, stv
wrote:

Dinosaur that I am, I don't deal much with mp3s, but now I find that I
need to do some mix
conversions to mp3s.

What's the current 'state of the industry' for making mp3s? Ok...


I think Lame is still up near, if not right at the top for MP3
creation.

No, Fraunhofer is the best...

--
Manuel Marino

My Weblog / Music, Arts, People, Ideas
http://www.manuelmarino.com

[Scott Dorsey]

Manuel Marino wrote:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:40:15 GMT, (Don Pearce)
wrote:

I think Lame is still up near, if not right at the top for MP3
creation.

No, Fraunhofer is the best...

They all sound different. The one that is the "best" depends on the
program material and on the data rate you're going to use it at. In
addition, many implementations of either one disable a lot of the
controls built into the encoders, which limits your ability to tweak
things for best perceived quality in a given situation.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Paul Kotheimer]

I think Lame is still up near, if not right at the top for MP3
creation.

d

--
Pearce Consultinghttp://www.pearce.uk.com

If by "right at the top" you mean free, then yes. Otherwise no, LAME
is inferior for most applications...which is why Frauenhoefer
continues to rake in millions in licensing fees when software makers
want to incorporate their encoder.

[[email protected]]

ITunes is great for what it does well, and adding LAME to it using any
of several free LAME installers is very handy so you can still
organize and encode within the same app.

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ps.com...
ITunes is great for what it does well, and adding LAME to it using any
of several free LAME installers is very handy so you can still
organize and encode within the same app.

[Marc Wielage[_2_]]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:35:26 -0700, stv wrote
(in article . com):

What's the current 'state of the industry' for making mp3s? Ok...
'state of the art,' too...
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The Fraunhofer (FHG) codec in iTunes 7.4x is pretty damned good for Mac OSX.
Fraunhofer and LAME are neck-and-neck these days (October of 2007). LAME is
up to version 3.97, and it sounds OK to me as well -- but you can't be iTunes
for ease-of-use under OSX.

A good source for debates on which MP3 encoder is best can be found on the
HydrogenAudio discussion group:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org

The general theory seems to be, the higher the bitrate, the fewer differences
there are between codecs. Lower bitrates are much harder to pull off without
artifacts, even with speech.

--MFW