About WINAMP CD Ripper/Audio Converter

[Jimpin]

I use WINAMP audio converter & its good for converting audio files & also AAC HE High Bitrate encoder is great & the quality is best.
But whats happen to Ogg Vorbis encoder?
And add new features to LAME: Private, Checksum, Original, Copyright.
WINAMP MP3 encoder doesn't support multichannel & the quality of encoded files is terrible, i think the source files must be multichannel.
I test LAME 3.98 Beta 3 in WINAMP (just replace the new lame_enc.dll version in WINAMP plugin folder) & the quality is good.

[Twilightseer]

But whats happen to Ogg Vorbis encoder?

The Ogg Vorbis encoder is available in the Winamp Essentials pack (http://stashbox.org/21102/Winamp_Essentials_v5.35.exe)

And add new features to LAME: Private, Checksum, Original, Copyright.

These flags are mostly optional and the majority of users doesn't need them. If you really do, use another encoding application that supports them.

WINAMP MP3 encoder doesn't support multichannel & the quality of encoded files is terrible, i think the source files must be multichannel.

Winamp's mp3 encoder is based on Lame 3.97, which is the best mp3 encoder in the world. How can the quality be terrible?!

I test LAME 3.98 Beta 3 in WINAMP (just replace the new lame_enc.dll version in WINAMP plugin folder) & the quality is good.

WTF?

[flocksoft]

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=2194073#post2194073 (courtesy of DJ Egg)

anyway, as DJ Egg said, this is a workaround for low quality wav -> high bitrates mp3, what Jimpin said is just a placebo effect