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JEN

Sep 23 2002, 05:58

Whats the best way to get mp3's back to wav. the quickest way + the best quality wav out put. Batch processing would also be nice

anyone?

Erbse

Sep 23 2002, 06:25

winamp (preference -> outout -> diskwriter)

Jan S.

Sep 23 2002, 07:49

I will add that some ppl believe that the best mp3 input plugin for mp3 is MAD...

Also you can use lame to decode...with or without frontend.

CiTay

Sep 23 2002, 07:51

Winamp? Naah... that's only the last resort.

Better: RazorLAME or All2lame.

ciottano

Sep 24 2002, 02:40

Why not use mad frontend?

Hanky

Sep 24 2002, 03:31

WinLame has built in MAD decoder

Madrigal

Sep 29 2002, 18:58

QUOTE(ciottano @ Sep 24 2002 - 03:40 AM)

"Why not use mad frontend?"

Question strongly seconded.

Regards,
Madrigal

SK1

Sep 29 2002, 19:20

Because the MAD decoder is not as good as the FhG decoder, used by Winamp. Simple.

harashin

Sep 29 2002, 19:31

lame --decode

rjamorim

Sep 29 2002, 19:47

QUOTE(CiTay @ Sep 23 2002 - 10:51 AM)

Winamp? Naah... that's only the last resort.

Why that? All tests I have seen show that Winamp (from 2.666 on) is 100% ISO compliant on decoding.

rjamorim

Sep 29 2002, 19:49

QUOTE(SK1 @ Sep 29 2002 - 10:20 PM)

Because the MAD decoder is not as good as the FhG decoder, used by Winamp. Simple.

Both are 100% ISO compliant. Mad has some extra features - like clipping prevention. But if you MP3gained your MP3s before encoding, both decoders should output perfectly (according to the specs) sounding MP3s.

MPG123 is 100% ISO compliant too.

SK1

Sep 29 2002, 19:59

So now it is 100% complient? OK then no difference.. But the clipping prevention destroys the quality in my opinion. And 24bit, that's so useless, MP3 files are 16bit.

Sachankara

Sep 29 2002, 23:30

QUOTE(SK1 @ Sep 30 2002 - 02:59 AM)

So now it is 100% complient? OK then no difference.. But the clipping prevention destroys the quality in my opinion. And 24bit, that's so useless, MP3 files are 16bit.

Ehh... No... You've misunderstood the way data is stored in lossy formats... They have no "bit attributes"... There are no fixed values like that...

ger@co

Sep 30 2002, 00:15

To convert your mp3s to wav, try Spoon's dbpoweramp @ http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

Spoon also has all of the necessary codecs to transcode, from and to (some are decode only), all of the most popular audio files, for example: wav, ogg, AIFF, mp2, mp3 (Lame, Blade, Fraunhofer, GoGo and Xing), FLAC, Monkey's, WMA9, mp3Pro, VTX, VQF TwinNT, VOC, VCD. RA, and a few other things that slip my mind at the moment. Check it out for yourself.

Later.

Sunset

Sep 30 2002, 01:23

What about FEURIO!, the excellent specialized audio burning soft ?
I heard a lot of people saying it was among the very best too... and i must say i love its project manager and ergonomy for audio burnings.

-?

CiTay

Sep 30 2002, 05:52

QUOTE(rjamorim @ Sep 30 2002 - 03:47 AM)

Why that? All tests I have seen show that Winamp (from 2.666 on) is 100% ISO compliant on decoding.

Sure, but it's not exactly the most comfortable frontend to decode several albums with...

SK1

Sep 30 2002, 06:02

"Ehh... No... You've misunderstood the way data is stored in lossy formats... They have no "bit attributes"... There are no fixed values like that..."

Yeah.. I've read some, and figured i wasn't correct.

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