"Rao, Ragu" wrote in news:9v5sbh0v5a@enews4.newsguy.com...
> Hi,
>
> Just curious to know how does MP3 file get created ? What are the steps
and
> softwares that are needed for this ?
>
> If I have a regular music CD, is there anyway that I can copy the file,
run
> across some software or product and have this converted to MP3 files ?
>
First you need to rip the CD audio data as a WAV file onto your hard drive
and then encode it into MP3. As an audio extractor you should use EAC
(www.exactaudiocopy.de) because it usually does the job with least errors --
some other rippers tend to ignore the errors that are caused by scratches or
dirt on the CD, resulting in clicks and pops in the wave file.
As an encoder you should use the Lame encoder as it generates the best
sounding MP3s (there are huge differences between encoders, generally
speaking xing is the worst, whereas lame and fraunhofer share the first
place). Lame is a free MP3 encoder and it can be found... somewhere :)
Sorry, but do a google search, there are tons of interfaces and frontends
for it (razorlame etc). A good and free all-in-one CD-ripper is CDEx
(www.cdex.n3.net) which, althgouh not as accurate as EAC, is easy to use and
use Lame for encoding.

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