Anyone here use RazorLAME and can explain it to me?

[The Sauce]

For some reason I am having a beyotch of a time with this little proggie. Used it once a few weeks back, no sweat. Now when I go to add "audio files" it does not find any on any of my audio CD's. When I set it to "all files" it sees the tracks on the audio CD but refuses to add them to the cue. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here. Nothing on the website to address this. It just blithely states that you should add the tracks but it won't seem to let me.

 

[wfbberzerker]

um, dont you need to rip the cd's to WAVs before you can encode them using lame?

 

[The Sauce]

Oh crap. I guess you're right. I'm a dumba$$.

 

[The Sauce]

Um...ok. How do you rip it to WAV's?

 

[Maleficus]

use Exact Audio Copy

 

[Swanny]

Yup, I use EAC to rip and RazorLAME to encode to MP3.

 

[deerslayer]

EAC = rip to wav
RazorLAME = encode to MP3

 

[The Sauce]

Sweet, thanks all. For some reason I thought RazorLAME was supposed to be able to rip directly from CD. My bad.

 

[chiwawa626]

Why not just use CDEX it does cd->wav and cd->mp3

 

[The Sauce]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
Why not just use CDEX it does cd->wav and cd->mp3

Not familiar with that one. Almost done now anyway.

 

[The Sauce]

What does "Peak Level" mean after you rip to wav with EAC? Some tracks came up as 40%'s Is that bad?

 

EAC + LAME or EAC + Monkey's Audio is better than anything.

 

Originally posted by: Snatchface
What does "Peak Level" mean after you rip to wav with EAC? Some tracks came up as 40%'s Is that bad?

I think that's the volume/dB level. If you were smart enough to use EAC + LAME )), then you'd know that EAC has an option to 'normalize' your tracks (i.e. make them all the same volume so you don't freak out while you're driving and all of a sudden your speakers start blasting.

 

[Relayer]

What is the best program (encoder) for making MP3s?