I know you're gonna call me a lazy git but beleive me I've looked!
I want to convert batches of wavs [ie an album of say 12 songs] to mp3 at the best quality, I prefer Lame VBR. So I'd like a good prog for doing this preferably for free, and if I have to pay for it I'd like the best.
U guys are much better at this than me s'why I'm asking. I'm now getting a lot of CDs that won't rip using my default EAC due mainly to copycoding. I can get wavs sorted but it's batching to mp3 that's holing me up.

I've a feeling that I shoulda just PM'd Mystic for this

Thanks for all your help,

jW

This is one i used many moons ago
Cdex

And another one that might be ok is
dbpoweramp

Both are freeware

Gus 2 the rescue

cheers G

dBpowerAMP is no longer freeware - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc-power-register.htm

mmmM!

Might have to shell out on this, don't mind but I would like to make sure I'm buying the best one and it must do Batch Processing.

Thanx for the help guys :-)

If you're going to purchase I'd recommend Acoustica MP3 To WAVE Converter PLUS. I bought a copy last week and think it's an excellent progrem.

11.76GBP and 30day money back guarantee can't be bad :-)

Exactly, and it costs nothing to download and try it first.

They also do Acoustica Audio Converter Pro but it might be more than you need. All I wanted was an MP3 WAV batch file converter, preferably with shell integration like dBpowerAMP, which it has plus more besides.

Hey Man,

I too like CDex, and it comes ready to rock... Lame included. The alt- preset standard setting (VBR) produces very nice results hitting 320 kbps when needed, with a file size slightly larger than 192 kbps CBR encodes. But the final step is the most important.... MP3Gain.

great, thanks guys

you're right I shoulda searched around a bit more
but I am Lazy ;-)

So I take it from the reply in the Winamp thread that you're none the wiser. Have you got anywhere yet? Have you actually tried any of the products recommended?

Yeah I muddled through. Downloaded summat with a free trial but now need the real thing I'll give the Cdex a look.

then I got some .flac files.
Thought about asking you lot!!!!!!
But sorted it myself. Seems there's a plug in for my Audition and it does BATCH CONVERT. So that's me sorted - wish I'd sussed my audition in the 1st place it would've saved much pharting about

Well I batch converted those .flacs to mp3vbrwith Audition1.5 today. It couldn't be easier and I can believe I had this facility all along. Makes having Audition even more worthwhile. Not sure whether the onboard vbr is lame? Can anyone enlighten me or point me in the direction of a plug in.

Incidently the files were the new Stones album and it's not bad for a buncha OAPs lol.