Creating Mp3

[KrasH]

I use Musicmatch on my windblows box. Its pretty easy to use, has CDDB support etc and the settings are alright. Only real problem with it is that it always want's to wait for something when I load it.. damn sluggish. But encoding is pretty good. get 8-12x cd speed for rips on my Athlon 1.33Ghz (so 5 minute song will take about 30-40 seconds or so, whole albums under 10 minutes, tops). That's with the el cheapo free version of musicmatch 7.1 (and 128k bitrate etc).

[SilvrDrgn]

I've used LAME, SecondSpin, and MakeCD on my Amiga, but it takes too long with only the horsepower of the 060.  So, "for faster service" on my Win-DOHS laptop I use AudioCatalyst for the ripping,  LAME for encoding and RazorLAME as a front end to LAME so I can encode batches of .WAV files at once.

[Warrent]

@ Castellen

"You can run more than one of anything in a shell by sticking "run"
in front of it.

EG:
run lame insong.aiff outsong.mp3

That will spawn a new process for each task."


Yes, I do know about that.  I was wondering if there was something in the command line of Lame.  Like Lame xxx.file, xxx1.file, xxx2.file ect. and then each of those files would be coded?  I don't see that, so I can use the run and enter the next file.

Thanks,

[ksk]

Do those MP3 encoding Amiga apps run on Amithlon or UAE?
How fast is it in about 800Mhz PC?

A friend of mine once said that he can endode MP3's little faster than realtime with his 603/~200Mhz (meaning encoding of 3 minute song in about 3 minutes).

I think that would be enough for Joe Average and for me,  but those accelerators (for my A4k) cost same as A1... I hope to get the latter (and to use the PC in the meanwhile).

[Castellen]

@ Warrent:

I don't think LAME suports multiple encodes like that.

Your best bet is to try the "Audio Converter" front end on Aminet.
It batch converts whole directories at once.

Never used it for encoding MP3s before as I usually just do small
quantity at once.