any mp3 plug in for "sale"

[zavijah]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Kickin.da.speaker:
I use a freeware called MP3 encoder 0.12 by Johan Lindvall
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I've been using this too. It sounds quite good, and actually uses the SoundEdit16 encoder Xtra.

But.

Yesterday I downloaded SoundJam MP. It's _really_ cool! I'm partly biased because it's a modern Mac app, and takes advantage of all the latest OS and hardware technology, and so makes the Mac look like a really cool platform. (MP tasks, Altivec optimization, transparent windows, etc.) But more materially, it has a lot of spiffy features, like a stream tuner and a stream broadcaster, playlists, skins and plug-ins, it'll play your CDs through the Digi interface, CDDB access ... I dunno. I sound like an ad for it but I was really impressed. The mp3 quality is also quite good to my ears.

The free version gives you 30 mp3 conversions, which are very speedy on a G4, and 14 days of full features. After that you still get the player functionality. So I've made it my default player for audio media (over Quicktime Player) and will very likely buy the full version, which is $30 or $40.

So it's mostly a luxury item -- by all means the encoder mentioned above works fine. But it's an awful nice luxury item.

[Frank S]

I think, and maybe I have been misled, that there are two codecs from the Fraunhofer Institute - an "original" licensed to Macromedia for SWA (and to no one else)and a second newer one which is the currently available codec that is used to encode other MP3s - including the digi plug in.

[This message has been edited by Frank S (edited August 31, 2000).]