Aqua-Soft Forumsshould i change all my songs to AAC or is mp3 still the better format?
[help]mp3 Or Acc?
If your ripping new CD, I'd say go with ACC. If your thinking of converting your entire MP3 collection, stay with MP3. If you want to make your new CD's ACC and keep your MP3's MP3. Your choice. But, whatever you do, do not convert an MP3 to ACC. It will sound horrible.
if you've got 100 albums in mp3 format just keep going with that.
whats the point in having more than one format, it just gives you compatibility problems. What will you do if itunes stops getting developed? or a better media player comes out?
aac is only really used by apple.
AAC is smaller, but it's not worth the time spent converting in my opinion.
My opinion built form my experience with conversion of files is keep the mp3s.. i started ripping my cds in wma cause i had an ipaq and it helped that the files were sometimes not even 1 meg big, but then, iTunes came around... now i have to reconvert which is never good... sio here i am ripping my cds all over again 390+ cds are not an easy thing to rip!
Cheers... Hope this helps
1. STFF. This has been discussed WAY too many times.
2. Dont convert between lossy formats (mp3 --> aac). Just re-rip from CDs.
3. Use OGG.
4. Use AAC if you need Apple compatability
5. use MP3 if you have an mp3 player.
6. Don't touch WMA with a big stick.
Originally posted by contrasutra@Oct 18 2003, 10:47 PM6. Don't touch WMA with a big stick.
Im doomed then.. i have like 4000 of them... reripping while im posting tough...
Best wma mp3 converter around anyone? there are some files i dont have the original from.. so that means conversion... using DBPoweramp at the moment...
Why wouldnt you have the originals? Remember, piracy talk is not allowed. 
But if you got them from one of those online music services, im sorry.
I use mplayer. It can convert between any format to any format.
Some from online stores, but theyre mostly from cds from firends and stuff... (damn thats also piracy) hmm.. i paid them for the ripping 
And is it reliable? i mean this damn DBpoweAMP ends up crashing all the time in the middle of the thing... Its annoying!
menconder (mplayers encoder) is pretty perfect.
It basically takes the audio, decodes it, and then pipes it strait to the new format. Its pretty good like that, because the format is irrelevent (as long as the mplayer can play the song).
So technically its doing WMA --> RAW audio --> (desired format)
but you cant really tell that.
Great, ill google it and ill give it a go... *crosses his fingers hoping it will be freeware*
Thanx Contra, Appreciate it
Seph
http://www.csant.info/mplayer.htm
truth is, I dont know how good it is.
Its not "freeware", its open source.
Originally posted by contrasutra@Oct 18 2003, 11:35 PMhttp://www.csant.info/mplayer.htm
truth is, I dont know how good it is.
Its not "freeware", its open source.
I could have seen it comming cheers mate...
EDIT
It says its only player.. hte windows prt tough...
i converted my 192 kbps MP3's to AAC and I can't tell the difference atall. i wouldn't consider myself an Audiophile but it still sounds great. mebbe will be worse from 128->128.
I have an iPod and want to use AAC bc it is smaller/better and sounds great so no reaosn not to.
Originally posted by Seph+Oct 18 2003, 02:40 PM-->QUOTE(Seph @ Oct 18 2003, 02:40 PM)
No worries man, ill look elsewhere... if you do know one please let me know... DBpowerAMP keeps crashing on me :nuts:
Cheers
Seph
What you want to use is Exact Audio Copy with the LAME MP3 codec. It's simply they best and both of them are free!
hmm i just went to the site of that program but it doesnt seem to ahve the capability of converting WMA -> MP3, instead rips from a cd, itunes does that for me...
Unless iTunes uses the LAME codec for compressing files into MP3, it's better to use EAC w/ LAME because it's the best encoder out there right now.
HMMM.... yeah, i know, i actually rip from WMP with LAME, plus it gives me automatic album art
So no clue about a good WMA>MP3 COnvertor?
Here you go man. http://www.wma-mp3-wma.com/ It even uses the LAME codec so it'll probably work quite well.
Edit:
WMA to MP3, MP3 to WMA conversion - Features summary:
Handy User's Interface
Easy-to-use Explorer-like interface allows you easily navigate throug audio files on your computer and perform all actions just by one mouse click even for unproficient user.
Batch Conversion Support
In case of mass conversion you can use inbuilt Batch Conversion engine to increase perfomance. You just need to add files you want to convert from WMA to MP3 to Batch Conversion List and press "Start" button.
Fast Conversion Speed
Audio formats conversion is performed directly, without any temporary WAV files, this fact means higher WMA to MP3 converting speed and economy of hard disk resource. Fast processing speed saves your time and high WMA to MP3 conversion quality allows you really to enjoy your digital audio.
Best Audio Codecs Support
Active WMA Studio uses most modern and fast audio codecs, it internally supports WMA 8 format, WMA 8 encoder improve quality of encoded audio of 30 to 50 percent over WMA 7, for MP3-encoding it uses fast LAME encoder 3.92, for OGG encoding it uses last Vorbis SDK updates.
ID3 Tag v2 Support
Program supports ID3 Tag v2, you can easily transfer all most useful tag fields from one format to another, edit these fields in audio files (multiple files tag edition is also supported).
Filename generation using ID3 Tag
You can use this feature to generate filename and folder's structure using ID3 Tag information such as artist's and album's name, track's title, genre and track's number.
Windows XP compatibility
If you use new Windows XP system all conrols in application have XP-style look and feel.
High Quality CD-Ripping
You can fastly and naturally transcode Audio CD tracks directly to WMA 8 format, using jitter correction to compensate reading errors.
CDDB Support
You can download information about Audio CD disc such as Album's and Artist's name, track's names, etc. from Internet database just by clicking on CD drive icon in Folders Tree.
Winamp playlists support
Application allows you to create (or append to) Winamp playlists.
VERY NICE APP...
i have never converted any songs before from one format to the other, so wanna know a few things.
what is LAME codec? y does everybody look for that in a converter?
n this converter doesnt convert to WAV first before converting to the format we want, so isnt that bad?? coz i heard that a good converter converts to WAV first, then to the format we want.
*post made by fast reply (Y) its getting implemented (Y)
LAME is just one of the mp3 encoding codecs and has been proved to be the best (ie most accurate quality/compression ratio).
and yeah, i just realized that it doesnt go trough wav.... crap.... its prolly a lot faster... but i want good sounding music not fas bad rippling noise
Cheers
Seph
so anyone know a wma to mp3 converter which uses the lame codec n converts to wav first, then our desired format??
what if we ourselfs convert it to wav then our desired format?? will we lose quality??