COUPLE~o~QUESTIONS

[i_share]

some mp3's sound great, some sound like SHIT! ... i've heard some 128's that seem to sound as good, or better than a 320!
... i try and stick with 192 or higher, but there seems to be alot of crappy_encoded shit out there!

before i encode, i would like to know, what's the best encodeing/editing software out there???
also, what's the best albumwrap extractor software?

just trying to do my part by only shareing high_quality_mp3's

[Solomon]

I use dbPowerAmp and Alba for encoding and unwrapping, respectively.

[NRen2k5]

The program you use to rip from CDDA to WAV doesn't matter quite as much as the program or plug-in you use to encode WAV to MP3.

Lame 3.90.3 is the best program for MP3 encoding. It's a windows commandline program, which looks like a DOS program, and you should be able to set it up in a ripper program like AudioGrabber or Exact Audio Copy to encode each track when the ripper finishes ripping it to the hard drive. Alternatively, you could use it with a utility such as RazorLame, to batch-encode your WAV's to MP3's.