Hi, all you wonderful people!

I have been trying to follow your discussions but... I am simply not following.
I listen to audio books. Most of them are MP3 but the older ones are in wave.
The compressions are different and I just don't understand what to do to solve my problem.

I have CDex ripper and feel comfortable with that. It does what I want it to do, compress audio files from larger to smaller MP3s (32kbps/22kHz, mono). That compression is the smallest if I don't want to loose too much of soundquality.

The problem is that CDex don't take the wave files (or most of them). It can read for example PCM, 352kbps, 22kHz, mono, 16 bit - files but not the 88kbps, 22kHz, mono, 8 bit - files. Why?

What do I do? What is it I don't understand? I would like to convert them files into god old mp3s so that I can play them on my player. As for now the only programs that works with these files are LPplayer and Playback2000. And they are only reading programs...

Thanks for now!
Take care...
//Anette

As mp3 encoding is done from 44.1kHz/stereo .wav files most of the time, it's likely that many encoder frontends/cd rippers have problems if you try to feed them with a big variety of input files (different sampling rates, mono, lossy compressed etc.). Audio players are made for decoding many different file types, so I'd use an audio player that has a mp3 encoding output plugin. Examples:

foobar2000
Winamp 2.x (plugin needs to be downloaded seperately)
XMPlay