What's your favorite Ripper/encoder/editor for MP3?

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2001 1:13 pm

When I receive an MP3 that needs editing, I go the long way around and real time play it back to Sound Forge 4.5 and edit it there, and reformat it back to MP3. I have also converted MP3 to Wav. and then opened the file and edited.Let's share different systems (provide links) of the tools you enjoy for MP3> wav.<editing>wav.<MP3.I really would love to see some alternative software choices.What do you use??

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2001 11:59 am

the following are FREE apps:for CD extraction, I use CD DAE. simple, easy, works great and FAST.for encoding/decoding, Electronic Cosmo's MPEG Suite. again, simple, easy, flexible, works fast!these two free programs are what I use time and time again, because I don't need any 'make your computer a jukebox' crap that has a bunch of silly features I don't need. I use them practically every day and haven't had any problems whatsoever.editing? well it needs to be converted to wav first, then it gets chopped up in Cool Edit Pro (not free). =D

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2001 10:55 am

I use Soundforge 5.0 for everything.Keijo

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2001 2:47 pm

I agree! Sonic Foundry has some powerful software. I have not "upgraded" to 5.0 yet..still using 4.5Playcenter 2 by Creative has an excellent encoder, decoder but since my "computer crash" the site has rejected downloads of it.Perhaps it will come back up.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2001 6:39 am

I'm quite fond of Wavelab for editing and batch encoding and MP3 decoding/encoding. I like it's fast real time processing and fast encoding.
I havent used Sound Forge in a couple of years since Wavelab 3.0 came out.
I also like to use Audio Catalyst from Xing for taking a whole album and ripping it to MP3's
Opus

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2001 7:58 am

Anyone have any comments / experience with directly editing MP3's in Sound Forge 5.0? I have found that since I made the upgrade, I can now directly work on and save in MP3 format. I don't notice any loss of sound quality doing this, and it save a BUNCH of time not having to convert back and forth between MP3 and WAV for editing.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2001 7:56 pm

Wheres all my Wavelab partnres. Its the only way to go, Not missing one feature.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2001 9:12 pm

O.k. Jeremiah, I don't use it yet. Sell me.
I'm new and can use any good and intuitive tool for this purpose.
Theron.

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2001 4:13 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by MonkeyGrass:
Anyone have any comments / experience with directly editing MP3's in Sound Forge 5.0? I have found that since I made the upgrade, I can now directly work on and save in MP3 format. I don't notice any loss of sound quality doing this, and it save a BUNCH of time not having to convert back and forth between MP3 and WAV for editing.<hr></blockquote>I have not really edited .mp3's, but I convert all my .wav's to .mp3's in SF5 if I need to ul a quickie sample on the net or something like that, it's much faster than saving the .wav, then converting it in an external program. I also convert all commercials I do like that and ul them to the radio stations. Seems to work perfectly. You can test the quality loss factor like this: Open an 1.mp3 save it to 2.mp3 now open 2.mp3 and save it to 1.mp3 and so on to see how many times you can get away with Smile

.Keijo

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