how do i turn a wav into an mp3??

[kenmasters83]

i have been recording some songs with my leadtek winfast tv 2000 fm card..

i foolishly selected WAV format in the recording section its now set to mp3's..but how do i go about changing a wav into an mp3 though?? as i have about 30 wavs that need to be transcoded right??

[SEALs1230]

I use Precision CD WAV MP3

[steve2713]

dbpoweramp. It does batch conversions as well, all you have to do is select multiple files and right click and encode them all at once.

[richdvd]

audacity is good and FREE.

[wulf109]

Easy CD-DA Extractor,not free,but converts just about any audio format except ac3.

[Denvers Dawgs]

I agree with steve, I've used dbpoweramp easy to use, and fast

[MOVIEGEEK]

CDex or Audacity can batch encode.

[celtic_druid]

All you need is lame.exe.
Something like:
for %%f in (*.wav) DO (lame.exe "%%f" "%%~nf.mp3")

[ulapines]

WinLame

http://winlame.sourceforge.net/download.php

[sanjayk]

Celtic's batch example is a pretty neat. OR using Lame encoder with RazorLame as GUI will also do the job.

[verchad]

I agree with steve, I've used dbpoweramp easy to use, and fast

Another vote for dbpoweramp, lots of plug ins and it's free.

[Cunhambebe]

Donwload the lame codec or radium (some people may have serious remarks about that since radium is another version of fraunhofer). Both are excellent mp3 codecs. Download also razor lame to use it as front-end for the codec. Configure your codec to compress the wavs to mp3 the way you want (128, 160, 192, 256, 320 kbps), list your wavs for batching (as sanjayk has said). That's all (you'll need to tag your mp3s later). If you have Sound Forge then it's gonna be much easier. Sound Forge uses a fraunhofer plug-in (you have to buy a separate license for it).

http://www.dors.de/razorlame/index.php

Here are nice places to download LAME:

http://mitiok.free.fr/

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Lame_MP3

Radium (v. 1.263 released june 26, 1999 - hey, please don't laugh; do you have someting better and newer???) - let's see if the link works...

http://www.sm-art.hu/link/codec/mp3codec.zip