MP3 Software

K3B

(Open Source)

There are lots of programs that can rip a CD to .wav, but none do it as quickly and consistently as K3B. Full CDDB matching of course...

LAME

(Open Source)

The command line interface of LAME is the most simple and highest quality MP3 output (from .wavs) available.

I have a script to do this in Linux:

for x in *.wav; do lame -q 0 -b 320 "$x"; done

Foobar2000

(Free)

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player and audio management tool. It's not 'pretty', but it is a serious tool for creating and managing music.

Here are the settings for Windows encoding:

MP3Gain

(Open Source)

Provides volume normalization

mp3gain -c -f -r -t *.mp3

Or for large collections:

mp3gain -c -f -r -t 1*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t 2*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t 3*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t 4*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t 5*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t 6*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t 7*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t 8*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t 9*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t 0*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t A*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t B*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t C*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t D*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t E*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t F*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t G*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t H*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t I*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t J*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t K*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t L*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t M*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t N*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t O*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t P*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t Q*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t R*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t S*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t T*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t U*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t V*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t W*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t X*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t Y*.mp3; mp3gain -c -f -r -t Z*.mp3

ReNamer

(Free)

A great little program to rename massive amounts of files

EasyTag

(Open Source)

This program can quickly clean tags from most audio file types.

ID3Kill

(Free)

I prefer to kill all incoming tags... the inconsistency drives me nuts.