Is there a better and equally easy way to convert mpc files to mp3? Usb mp3 players do not support mpc and the sound quality of most (cheap) players used with small ear headsets is not so good to start worrying about the conversion of lossy to another lossy format.

4U WMA MP3 Converter is very nice but is there a better way?

Foobar2000

DBPowerAmp

mpc2mp3 at rarewares

piping mppdec to lame, etc.


later

Mpc2mp3 seems simple and it's freeware. How are the options:

"--prev --gain 2" for mppdec and

"--alt-preset cbr 160" for lame;

what do the "prev" and "gain 2" mean? And "cbr"? "Alt preset" I assume means nothing important.. 160 is 160kbps..

I rip with eac and the settings have been with 1.15v these:

"--quality 7 --artist "%a" --title "%t" --album "%g" --year "%y" --track "%n" --genre "%m" %s"

I don't use replaygain (if that "gain 2" is related to that?).

you can use the tool i programmed, Musepaxx , which i posted here.

it's like mpc2mp3 but it reads the ape-tags and passes them on to the lame commandline.

the lame-commandline looks like this, for example (for 3.96.1):
-V 4 --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" --tg "%m" --tc "%c" - %d

As it was mentioned already several times before in other threads:
- Frontah
- Universal Front

I use foobar - it allows easy conversion if I right click on the track/selection in the playlist. Supports command line blah blah blah.

Edit: Oh, and hello everyone!