From Chris Cykana Sent Thu, May 28th 1998, 17:25
I was wondering if any of you could recommend a good=20 and fast MP3 encoding program(.wav to MP3). I downloaded=20 one but the bugger took over an hour to do a 5 minute=20 track......seems way too long considering I'm on a pentium 200. Don't worry about me copying obscure Autechre mixes=20 and putting them up on my page or anything. I just=20 want to do a couple of my own tracks so ya'll can hear them I believe the fastest mp3 encoder, MP3 Compressor, was taken offline = because of some copyright infringment stink with the company that = developed the codec it used. There's another encoder called MPEG Layer-3 = Producer Professional, but it's like 400 dollars US, and is a bit slower = than Compressor. I use mpeg Encoder, which is slow as hell, but it gets = the job done. And it's supposedly the only freeware encoder that's = legal. So I think unless you can get a copy of MP3 Compressor somehow, = you're gonna be stuck waiting forever to get your tracks done. BTW, I = found all this out at = http://www.aznet.net/~chovy/music/recording/encode_mp3.html =09 Chris