Audio editor/ mp3 converter

[rolifer]

I have been using NCH Swift for converting my wavs to mp3. Well I just found out that the product is reduced to 128 kbps and I have been told that I need at least 192 kbps for a decent sound.

I am also a poor college student, so I am looking for either free or inexpensive.


Any recommendations as to what is my best bet?

Thanks

Ron

[Tony Monaghan]

Try Audiograbber (free), with the (free) Lame encoder.

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/


http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php

[Reegs]

Try Audiograbber or Goldwave with the LAME MP3 encoder plugin. You have control over the encoding.
Goldwave is shareware. Audiograbber is free.

[Reegs]

Tony beat me by seconds with the same set of links! Great minds must think alike.

[Tony Monaghan]

Tony beat me by seconds with the same set of links! Great minds must think alike.

Yeah, cheap

[rolifer]

That was fast!!!

I will go now and check these out.

Thanks guys

Ron

[rolifer]

If I might add a bit. I use Sonar Home Studio XL ( I just purchased it and am learning how to use it. It does not come with a mp3 converter). Is there a free one that will work thru it?

Ron

[Reegs]

You can probably get LAME to work its way into the Save As and Export dialogs. You can in Sonar. Offhand I don't remember how. There used to be a registry entry on the install disk that would do it, I'm not sure if the procedure has changed.

[rolifer]

So that way I don't need Audiograbber, right?

[Reegs]

So that way I don't need Audiograbber, right?

Right. The procedure has probably been addressed on the Cakewalk forums multiple times. I would try a search over there.