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How to make a mp3 file? 2
Encoding MP3-files is no problem and not even as difficult as converting some .JPG- pics into the Compuserve-GIF-format.
All you need to encode songs you have on CD in normal CD-Audio-format like every music CD on this world is a program which copies the tracks on the CD on your harddisk, in CD-quality .WAV files with a datastream of about 172 KByte per second. Of course this might need a bit HD-space, but if you don't have this, don't encode whole 74-minute-CD's but only single songs. After copying the tracks to your harddisk, the following MP3-Encoder which is shareware(copyrights watch the readme-file) , will encode your files and then you will find a 1:12 compressed file you can hear with many MP3-players. My favourite MP3-player is WinAmp, an easy to use Win95-player with a very cool interface.[Also work with Win98 too!! ^_^] If you don't have WIN 95 use the MS-DOS-player.
1. Copy track to HD with WINDAC
2. Encode copied track by using L3enc.
[This is a DOS-program.] Go to the MS-DOS prompt and start the file L3enc.exe.
Use the parameters L3enc.exe
[name of file to encode] [name
of compressed file after encoding] [-bitrate]
of course the
[ ] may not be written. Otherwise you will see that the program
won't encode your MP3-files. The bitrate shows the quality of the MP3-file.
More than 128000 bit does not make any sense anymore, because this is the
best quality you can get. If you use a smaller bitrate
the quality won't be as good as if you use higher bitrates. But
of course the less the bitrate is, the smaller the encoded files are. Just
try it out. For more parameters look at l3enc.exe ?. The
encoding might need some time if you have a slower PC.
Pentium processors are faster than Cyrix
and AMD processors
because of the faster floating point unit INTEL uses. Try it out.
3. Play the file by using WinAmp by Nullsoft or the MS-DOS Mp3-player.
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