I’ve been trying to find a freeware wav to mp3 converter, but trying to save myself from searching the depths of the 'net.
I’m need to send some music I’m making to a partner, but don’t feel like emailing a 45 meg wav file. I have a converter but it only converts to 56k, I want better quality, so if anyone can point me in the correct direction this would be very helpful.
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LAME (Lame Ain’t an MP3 Encoder) is a well-regarded free MP3 encoder available for many computing platforms. It’s best at making high-quality, high-bitrate MP3s - like 192kbps and over - but it can do lower bitrates too.
You don’t say what computer system you’ll be running on. If it’s Windows, you’ll want winLAME. If it’s another platform, you’ll have to look around - I’m sure there are *nix versions and there may be Mac versions too.
If you’ve no experience with setting up an MP3 encoder, just use one of LAME’s “preset” configurations - setting up all the options is trickier than you’d expect, and you’re likely to get better sound and smaller file sizes with a preset.
