I use Exact Audio Copy along with the freeware BladeEnc encoder to make my mp3s straight from CDs. While I don't do the step of going from .wav to .mp3 myself, I'm sure there are plenty of frontends ...

i just recently lost tons of my mp3 collection by accident. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif <BR>i did a disk recovery and i was only able to recover ...

Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your computer and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 and ...

For most people, dropping a CD into their disc drive and clicking “Import” in iTunes is good enough. For music freaks, though, it’s not—and with good reason. Here’s how to digitize your tunes, the ...

We tested video encoding performance using VirtualDub-MPEG version 1.6.15 and a multi-threaded version of the Xvid codec, along with the LAME MT MP3 encoder for encoding audio. We did a two-pass ...