i need the absolute BEST (& free) file converter!

Im making my album and I need to convert all my WAV files to mp3s (because mp3s support album artwork on itunes) but allthe converters ive gotten so far either edit what you convert (like literally adding sounds to the file), only convert to certain files, or are really low quality.

So anyone know of a really good quality converter? once i get things finalized ill send you a copy :)

From experience all free file converters put in a watermark or something to tempt into buying the full version.

I've been using MediaCoder and it's been working fine for me.

Try giving it a shot.

From experience all free file converters put in a watermark or something to tempt into buying the full version.

pengo93

You're using some garbage software, then. The best audio/video encoding/transcoding tools are 100% free and often even open-source.

OP..here's one way:

1) Get LAME + foobar2000. Install foobar2000 (make sure you do a full install) and extract LAME somewhere you can remember.

2) Open your WAV music track(s) in foobar2000.

3) Select+right click your tracks-->Convert-->"..."

4) Select "MP3" in the dropdown box, and pick a location for your tracks. Click the "..." beside the dropdown box and select a quality level. I'd recommend "V0"

5) Click "OK" ..when you do, you'll be prompted to locate lame.exe. What you need to do here is simply go to the folder that you extracted LAME earlier, and point foobar2000 to the 'lame.exe' in that folder. Note that you only need to do this once; foobar2000 will remember the location next time.

6) There really is no step 6. You're done, though you may need to tag your tracks (right click->properties in foobar2000), since WAV cannot contain metadata. You can also do this automatically with the freeDB tag tool (right click->tagging->get tags.) foobar2000 supports batch tagging..so you can select multiple tracks and tag them all with the same artist or album name, for example.