Converting from wav to mp3
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Introduction
This document outlines how to encode your audio files to the mp3 format.
Prerequisites
You need
- a binary compiled version of LAME. At this time we recommend using LAME v3.97.beta2 (dont let you confuse by the name, its not a beta version), you can get it from Rarewares (direct downloadlink).
- razorlame (direct downloadlink), which is a frontend for LAME
Start
- Unzip the downloaded LAME zip, and remember the path
- Unzip the downloaded razorlame zip
Start the razorlame.exe from the path where you have extracted the razorlame.zip:
Click on "LAME" to change the Lame compression options, change to the "General" tab:
Here you can adjust the constant bitrate, change the stereo mode, and the output directory. We will keep the default settings (bitrate will be overridden by our settings later). The only setting we will change is on the "Expert" tab, please switch to this tab, tick "Only use custom options" and enter "-V 2 --vbr-new". (You can find more details about the lame settings here, if you are paranoid you can also use instead the options "-V 0 --vbr-new" and "-b 2", very few poeple will notice any difference between the V 2 and the latter two V 0/-b 320 settings):
Click on "OK". You are now on the main window again. As a last configuration step we need to tell razorlame where to find the LAME binary. Go to the menu "Edit -> Options":
Then either enter the path in the "LAME" box manually or click on the folder icon on the right to point razorlame to the path where it will find the LAME binary:
(In this example my LAME binary will be found in "D:\audiotools\razorlame115a\Lame.exe".) Now click on "OK" and you are back at the main window.
Convert
We're almost done. Simply drag your songs into the track list window of razorlame and click on "Encode".
With our settings razorlame will not remove the original wav files.
Finish
We're done.
Problems&Questions
Links
Acknowledgement
Credits for this article go out to:
