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Originally Posted by dave911
If you want to save the 20 bucks there are free open source mp3 encoders on the net like LAME. A bit more trouble to use, but some people like them better.
http://lame.sourceforge.net/ |
Totally agree. There are too many free or open source ways to get your files converted. My personal favorite is
ffmpeg, but most of the time I use
WinFF which is a front end GUI for the command line based ffmpeg. A real swiss army knife, ffmpeg converts
almost anything to anything in both the video and audio world. For free.
As for it being more trouble, I'll tell you what's more trouble to me - an mp3 option for Pro Tools that sometimes fails to work properly. I bought it a few years ago and now never use it as I found it to be unreliable. One of the most aggravating quirks was there would be no mp3 file at the end of the bounce. No output, no error message, nothing. Oddly, running the bounce again usually made it work. But if it's a crap shoot as to whether or not it will work on the first try, I'm not going to use it.