![]() Nice, but not terribly convenient.Īfter lots of tryouts of standalone MP3 Tag Editors over the years (including MP3TAG recently, per recommendations from this forum. I've also tried MP3-Info Extension v3.4.23 (which is an Explorer shell extension in Properties for MP3 files). I use MP3-Explorer v5.1, MP3 Manager 32 v5.10, and ShufflePlay/2 v2.80b1. Again, some better, some worse, most similar and mostly basic. I use WINAMP v5.55 as well as CD-Runner 2007. ![]() (1) Virtually all players have "file info" or "MP3 Tag Editor" capability, but it's usually just for basic functionality and manipulation of primary tag fields. Yes, the files are about 25% larger than the 192 CBR files I'd been generating with MP3ENC31, but they sound better and they're still considerably smaller than 320 CBR (from LAME) as well as "lossless" (e.g. I'm now producing highest-quality 128/320 VBR files, instead of 192 CBR files as I'd been doing with MP3ENC31 in the past. I've selected MP3 Tag-Studio v3.5b19 as my tag editor utility, and decided to use MP3-Explorer v5.1 as my organizer (though I still use MP3 Manager 32 v5.10 and ShufflePlay/2 v2.80b1 when the need arises).Īnd, most significantly, I've decided to go with LAME v3.98b6 as my encoder, invoked as an "external encoder" from Audiograbber so that I have complete and absolute control over the command-line parameters I want to specify in order to produce the MP3 files I want to end up with. certainly not when compared to Audiograbber. After much playing with EAC, I've decided it does not work for my needs. I've decided to stay with Audiograbber v1.83 as my all-in-one ripper/encoder/tagger, along with keeping WINAMP v5.55 as my player (coupled with G-Force v3.75 Platinum as my "visualizer"). And the MP3 results are definitely superior to what I'd been producing for all these past years. I now have a 100% acceptable (and much faster!) WinXP-based solution. The project is now completed, and I'm happy to say that I no longer have to boot to Win98 to make MP3's. I gave second looks at products I'd been using for a long time, and tried other alternatives that I'd given up on some time back or new products that were mentioned and suggested in this forum. ![]() Lots of listening comparisons.Īnd at the same time I reviewed my organizer and tag editor choices. Quality settings for all tests was "highest quality, stereo" as well as "highest quality, joint-stereo" when possible. The comparison was extensive, including invoking LAME as DLL and EXE, MP3ENC31.EXE, and 元CODECP.ACM. I also decided to look at LAME as a VBR alternative encoder. ![]() Having recently learned that Fraunhofer had made a "Professional" encoder (better and much faster than MP3ENC31.EXE from 1998) available with WinXP Windows Media Player (v10 or v11) in 元CODECP.ACM (which only needed to be "registered" in order to activate it as an alternative to the much less capable "advanced" 元CODECA.ACM encoder in standard Windows XP) I decided to try it out, and compare the audible results with what I'd been building for many years previously. MP3ENC31.EXE cannot run in the DOS Command Prompt window of WinXP, so I've kept a Win98 boot partition around for just this one program. I've finally ended my months-long research project, to wean myself off of having to boot to Win98 in order to run Fraunhofer's MP3ENC31.EXE (professional v3.1 EXE, circa 1998) as my encoder to produce MP3's (invoked from Audiograbber, producing CBR 192kbps MP3 files).
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