Best CD audio ripper/MP3 Encoder-Decoder!!!!

[TnT]

Love CDex, Xing is pretty bad when compared to LAME encoded MP3s.

I can't stand VBR. It hurts my ears for some songs.

[High_Jumbllama]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Liquid Snake:
Heh, the default Franhofer codec that comes with Windows only goes up to 56kbps.</font>

That has something to do with Microsoft not having to pay a licensing fee for each copy of windows because it includes media player. Not to mention, they want to make sure you use their format.

[Dr Mordrid]

SoundForge

Ashampoo MP3 Studio Deluxe

Nero

Dr. Mordrid

[DentyCracker]

I see someone has been reading LjpP's page over at cdrinfo.com
Personally I use Plextor Manager to rip or sometimes EzCD Creator 5. No problems on either the Plextor burner or Toshiba DVD ROM that I have. Encoding - Lame, or the one that comes with SoundForge 5. Listening to mp3s - Sonique. Ljpp and Tony Million had a little tiff back in the days of the mp3 messageboard over by dmusic, so he has nothing good to say about Sonique. I suspect it all come down to what one likes.

[walrusbonzo]

Why do you people still insist on using MP3. It sucks compared to MP+..

I beg you to try out the MP+ encoder and wimamp plugin at
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~and...coder_eng.html

Superior sound quality.. It really is!!

[JLP]

I tried it but in my opinion MP3s encoded by LAME sound better.
Besides MP+ is not very common format so I prefer to use MP3.

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[Liquid Snake]

Why are we bothering with digital sound at all, let's use analog! MP3 is the more popular format, so I would stick with that for now. Besides, most stuff sounds as good as the original WAV at 256kbps with good encoder anyway.