Sony_Fan Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 So which one of these rips to MP3 with better sound quality? For some reason, I'm guessing iTunes, because I get the feeling that SS will intentionally make MP3s not sound as good as other MP3 encoders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 The problem with mp3 on the RH units was built into the hardware, which played back mp3s poorly, not SonicStage. There are lots of reasons to dislike Sony, but deliberately bad encoding (as opposed to playback) is not one of them. Still, most geeks say the best mp3 encoder is LAME. http://lame.sourceforge.net/download.phpYou can use it with: Exact Audio Copyhttp://www.exactaudiocopy.de/CDexhttp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=567Audiograbber http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/or the free version of dbpoweramp from Downloads:http://forums.minidisc.org/downloads/details.php?file=12You may have to unzip the Lame *.dll (Lame_Enc.dll or something like that) and put it in the same directory as EAC, CDex, Audiograbber or dbpoweramp. Or it may be built into some versions. EAC and CdEX will connnect to Freedb and tag the songs on the CD. The best thing is that you don't have to wait for big old clunky iTunes or SonicStage to load. Those programs open almost instantly because all they do is rip. And as LAME improves, you can update it for state-of-the-art ripping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 cdex all the way baby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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