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Converting FLAC (= Free Lossless Audio Compression), APE (= MAC: Monkey's
Audio Compression), and WAV audio files to MP3
(including tags) is easy with this frontend.
The frontend is a recursive version, meaning that it processes all files and all of the subdirectories
of all the directories dropped onto the program.
You can also start multiple instances, which is useful if you have a multi-core system.
A selection of files and directories can be dropped on the program window:
all FLAC, APE, and WAV files in the selection will be processed.
You can drop more files and directories while the transcoding is going on.
Note that the frontend uses existing codecs:
Download LL2MP3.zip, unzip in a directory of your choice.
A pdf file containing a comprehensive LL2MP3 Help text can be downloaded.
This text explains where to find the codec files and where they may be stored.
If you are only interested in converting FLAC files you may omit the APE codec, and vice versa.
LL2MP3 checks at startup which codecs are available and indicates which conversions are supported accordingly.
If both APE codec and FLAC codec are absent, you can still convert WAV files to mp3 files.
The LL2MP3 Help text explains how to use the program. The context menu contains 13 menu items to help you set up LL2MP3.
The menu item 'Lame Encoding Options' opens a submenu of which the right half gives you a choice of 5 standard settings
(128 and 192 kbps, standard, extreme and insane); these cannot be changed.
The left half shows what custom options are available.
These custom options can be edited when you click on 'Custom
Settings:'.
The 'names' appear in the left half of the submenu.
The selected option is marked by a black dot.
This selection and the options themselves are saved, and loaded again the next time you start the program.
A separate menu item shows the Lame help text which can help you to make your own Lame Encoding Options.
In the context menu you can also select the mp3 destination folder.
The cue list, tags list, and error list can be viewed while processing is going on.
Some of the errors that possibly occur during the conversion processes are collected in this error list.
If a custom encoding string is not recognized by Lame, error messages appear also.
To test for FLAC or APE decoding errors only, check the menu item 'Verify only'.
Several settings are saved to the registry.
I have tested the frontend with a variety of FLAC and APE files, but it is possible that some files made with older or newer codecs cause problems - just try and see.
It runs in Windows XP home, XP pro, and Vista Home Premium.
FLAC to MP3
as well as APE to MP3 frontends are still
available: they are however not developed any further.
I'm interested in remarks about any problems
that you may find.
Questions? Comments? History? Please visit the forum!
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