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Quickest way from .ape to .mp3

beatle

beatle

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I cataloged all of my cds into .ape format and put them on my hard drive so I never have to reach for a cd again. The problem is that I have an mp3 head unit in my car and I often will burn cds to take with me. Rather than rummaging through the box w/all my cds to rip the cd again, I just convert from .ape. I found the OUT_LAME plugin for Winamp that makes encoding to mp3 simple (especially doing a batch of mp3s or an entire album) but it's awfully slow, even on my P4C @ 3.0GHz. It'll generally take around 15 minutes to reencode an entire 60 minute album, give or take a few minutes. Are there other programs/utils/plugins that will do this?
 
CDEX's feature list says it supports APE. Try one of its transcoding options. I've found it to be speedy, and generally a great piece of software. I've never used APE (nor have I heard of it until now) - just simple CD/WAV/MP3 encoding.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
I think Foobar2000 can also do the transcoding for you.
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foobar is the best because it will transcode almost everything it's awesome. -- im a foobar addict

i use foobar to ape my wavs
i also use foobar to transcode some mpcs for portable mp3
 
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