From Greg Earle Sent Wed, Nov 19th 1997, 08:29
From Greg Earle Sent Wed, Nov 19th 1997, 08:29
> Can anyone help me with any tips on how to encode WAV or similar files
> (stereo, 44.1 MHz) into MP3 files? Any applications necessary, what? I'm
> running a PowerMac and have tried a fair number of sound utilities in hopes
> of preparing some of my audio files for smooth Web transition.
Quick and dirty PowerMac MP3 ripping recipe:
Use something like Adaptec's Toast Audio Extractor 1.1 to pull in the CD
track to a WAV file.
Then use SoundEdit 16 version 2.0.x to convert the WAV file to MPEG-3. To
do this you need some plug-ins for SoundEdit 16; specifically, things related
to WAV import ("WAVE IMA Import", "WAVE IMA Export"), and SWA (MPEG-3) export
("SWA Streaming Xrta", "SWA Settings (SE16) Xtra", "SWA Settings (Dir) Xtra",
"SWA Export Xtra", "SWA Compression Xtra", "Preverb", "Loop Tuner" and
"Afterburner").
You can then import WAV files into SoundEdit 16 and export them as MPEG-3's
(export as "SWA File" in the dialogue box).
Note that SoundEdit 16 can import as WAV from CD as well, but I had troubles
with it and found that Toast Audio Extractor worked a lot better.
np: Aaron's bleepbloop show from last week (What *is* this awesome track with
the sonar sounds and the crunchy Aphexian bits? The Jega track from the
V/VM sampler 12"? I *must* own this ... ) Thanks Aaron ... but can you
bump up the recording to 128 Kbits/44.1 KHz? hehe
- Greg