• DVD Clone/Copy/Backup-- DVD Ripper -- Video Format Converter

• CD To MP3 Ripper-- Audio MP3 CD Burner-- Audio Recorder,
• Audio format Converter-- Audio MP3 WAVE editor-- Jukebox

General Usage

• Basic Usage
  
• WMA problems
  
• Batch converting
  
• Converting entire
  folders
  
• What play lists
  are supported?
  
• Are the original
  files replaced?
  
• Converted songs
  sound bad.
  
• Conversions are
  taking too long.
  
• Converting to
  OGG is slow

Ripping/Converting CDA

• Ripping CDs/
  Converting
  CDA files
  
• Track names are
  not correct when
  ripping.

Other

• Command line
  options
  
• Where are my
  songs stored?
  
• No right click
  menu!
  
• I'd like to print
  the manual!

For example, if you had a bunch of MP3 files in "C:\My Music", you would first double click "My Computer", followed by double clicking "(C:)", followed by double clicking the "My Music" folder. Select the MP3 files you want to convert. You can select the MP3 files by either dragging, or if you hold down the Ctrl key you can individually select them. Right click on one of the selected MP3 files and a menu will appear. Click "Convert to WAV" and the program will start!

Can't find any .MP3 or other audio files on your computer? Try this.

There is no option to convert WMA files and I can't convert files to WMA!
You may not have installed the Microsoft WMA engine which is required. To download and install WMA support, click here.

Converting entire folders
It is possible to simply right click on a folder and convert all the folder's audio files. When you right click on a folder, you will see the option "Convert this folder's audio files to" and a submenu to select the destination format.
Optionally, you will be able to convert audio files in all sub-folders as well. This can be very useful for changing the file format of your entire music library! For example, you might like to free up some space on your computer and would like to convert all your 192 kbps MP3s into 128 kbps OGG files, for example.

What play lists are supported?
You can convert an entire play list of songs that you may have created in another program.
Converts play lists of type .asx, .cbs, .cl3, .cl4, .cl5, .m3u, .nra, .pl, .pls, .pya, .rcl, .rmp, .rxp, .wax, .wpl, .wvx, and .xml. (Windows Media Player, Acoustica MP3 CD Burner, Roxio Easy CD Creator, Winamp, Nero, Sonique, Cakewalk Pyro, Real Jukebox, & iTunes play lists!)

Are the original files replaced by the converted files?
No. The audio files that you convert are not deleted. They are kept intact. The converted audio files are stored in the decode directory, which defaults to "C:\Converted Audio Files".

Converted sounds are sounding bad.
The converted sounds are sounding grainy. Go to the options, click the Wave tab and set it to use the "best suited format".

Conversions are taking a long time.
Go to the options dialog to set the pauses to a shorter time. 50 ¨C 250 millisecond pauses are a good setting. For maximum speed, you can set it to 0 millisecond pauses if you don¡¯t need to do any other processing on your computer!
Note that converting to OGG, MP3 & WMA takes significant time, as well. (Converting to WAV is the quickest)

Converting to OGG is real slow!
OGG is slow to encode. However, you can speed up the encoding if you switch to "Specify settings" and select a quality level. 60% is the default and is relatively fast, although the file sizes are unpredictable.