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MP3 software
MP3 software creates, plays and manages music stored in the MP3 format. MP3, short for MPEG-1 Audio Layer III, is a lossy compression format: it shrinks audio files by discarding sound information that the human ear is least likely to notice, guided by a model of how hearing works. This allows a song to occupy roughly a tenth of the space of the same recording stored uncompressed, which is why the format became central to digital music collections and portable players.
Creating an MP3 from a music disc involves two steps handled by dedicated tools. A CD ripper reads the digital audio tracks from a compact disc and copies them to the hard drive as exact, uncompressed data. An encoder then compresses that data into MP3, with the user choosing a bitrate that trades quality against file size: higher bitrates preserve more detail but produce larger files. Many programs combine these steps, ripping and encoding in one operation. General converters perform the related task of changing existing files between MP3 and other audio formats.
Once files exist, players decode and reproduce them, and software players are mirrored by hardware MP3 players that store and play the same files away from a computer. Supporting tools manage the metadata embedded in each file, the so-called tags that record the title, artist, album and track number used by players to organise a library. Much of this software is available as freeware and runs on Windows, including versions for Windows XP.
Frequently asked questions
- What does it mean that MP3 is lossy?
- It means the format reduces file size by permanently discarding some audio detail judged hard to hear. The result sounds close to the original but is not an exact copy.
- What does a CD ripper do?
- It reads the audio tracks from a music CD and copies them onto a computer as data files, which can then be encoded into MP3 or another format.
- What is bitrate in an MP3?
- Bitrate is the amount of data used per second of audio. A higher bitrate keeps more detail and gives better quality, but makes the file larger.
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MP3-MPEG4
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related topic: MP3-MPEG4 Technology |
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CD2MP3
CD grabbing utility that will let you use any grabbing and encoding utility of
your choice, ID3 tag support |
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CD-DA X-Tractor
CD-DA X-Tractor is a fantastic open source development project that includes a
ripper and incorporates the latest LAME mp3 converter. Ability to encode to the
OGG Vorbis format is also provided, a free WAV to MP3 converter and CD ripper |
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CD to MP3 Converter
Free CD to MP3 Converter is an easy-to-use free CD ripper software that allows
you to extract audio files from a CD and convert them to MP3, Wav, Ogg or Wma
format. It can automatically retrieve title information from the CDDB database,
normalize the output files and supports additional LAME options. You can also
use the software to record to MP3 with your microphone, or to convert WAV files
to MP3, Ogg or Wma format |
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dBpowerAmp Music Converter
dBpowerAMP Music Converter, the Swiss knife of audio, transforming your PC in to
a true multimedia tool, dBpowerAMP supports practically every audio type
created: mp3, mp4, m4a, wma, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC |
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EasyLAME 1.4
LAME MP3 encoder |
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Frauenhofer MP3
encoder MP3 Stereo eXtended, MPEG Surround - spatial audio coding in an
open standard, MPEG AAC Family - Overview about MPEG AAC |
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FreeRIP a Windows application that can
convert your audio CDs to MP3, Wav or Ogg Vorbis audio files, and it also is an
audio file converter that can convert from Wav/MP3/Ogg to Wav/MP3/Ogg. It
integrates freedb.org support, playlist support, lyrics editing and many other
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iDump This program will allow you transfer your songs off your iPod to a PC,
iDump does come wrapped in installer but you can simply drop the .exe in the
root directory on your iPod and run it from there |
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LiQuiD-MP3 LiQuiD-MP3
is plugin for music players that allows you to display all sorts of music
related information on a graphical LCD, VFD, EL or OLED module |
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Mp3CoolPlay-X
Mp3CoolPlay-X is a media player/encoder capable of playing/encoding various
types of music file formats |
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MP3Gain
MP3Gain analyzes and losslessly adjusts mp3 files to a specified target volume.
It does not simply do peak amplitude normalization. Instead, it performs
statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human
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Mp3 Knife Mp3
Knife is a simple tool for extracting mp3 clips from your Mp3's.The extracted
clips will be stored in mp3 format only. This is the simplest and fastest tool
in its category which has ability to extract long mp3 clip in seconds |
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MP3 Player
Morpher Morph MP3s at your fingertips |
| MP3Pro
mp3PRO audio technology is both backwards and forwards compatible with mp3 and
creates files, that are 1/2 or less the size of original mp3 files |
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Mp3 recorder
FREE Hi-Q Recorder is free sound recording software to record streaming audio,
Internet radio, webcasts, music, meetings, classes, seminars, convert LP's,
records, tapes, make free ringtones and a lot more. It's an MP3 sound recorder
to record anything you can hear! MP3 Recorder saves any audio you hear on your
computer straight to mp3 or wav. If you can hear it you can record it! Record
internet radio and save to mp3 or wav. Record from any source. Rip Vinyl, rip
CD's, batch rename, create playlist and more, a tip |
| Mp3tag
v2.43 Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3,
Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on
the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames,
import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports
online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically
gather proper tag information for select files or CDs |
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Mp3 Tag Tools
mp3 tag editing utility, with several features such as Mass ID3 tagging, Write
ID3 tags from Filenames and Rename Files from ID3 tags using Custom Formats,
Copy/Synchronize ID3 tags, Cleaning Filenames and Correcting their case, Create
ID3 tags using Directory Formats, Create Directories and organize mp3s from ID3
tag info, Export ID3 tag data |
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MP3 Voice Recorder
MP3 Voice Recorder can very easily record your voice or any other sound playing
on your computer directly to MP3 format. You can set the bitrate at which you
need to record. You can also save recorded sound in many different formats
including WAV, AAC, WMA, FLAC, M4A and AC3 |
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MPEG Recorder
A real-time recorder and compressor of audio and video input for the Windows
platforms, using MFC, DirectX, FFMPEG and MPEG4IP. The program is capable of
generating avi and mp4 files and streaming MPEG-4 audio and video via Apple
Darwin Streaming Server |
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Streamripper32 StreamRipper32 is a windows program which uses the
streamripper lib, with it you can save off MP3 streams in their native MP3
format |
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