O.T. MP3 to Wav decoder

Does anyone know of a good freeware program to convert MP3's to Wav's. Thx, KB

>"K. Button" <[email hidden]> wrote >Does anyone know of a good freeware program to convert MP3's to Wav's. You use winamp KB? Go in the Preference/option panel, then the output section of your plug-ins. You will probably have one named "NullSoft Disk Writer". Just click on it. Files will be saved in your C:/ as pcm WAV files, but you can always change some stuff by Configuring your plug-in. Remember to put it back to Waveout after that, or else you'll always be converting your MP3 to Wav's the next time you use Winamp (and they take awful lot of space of course). -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- http://www.ymenard.8m.com/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimago-Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...

Musicmatch Jukebox, Real Jukebox, need any others? -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash K. Button <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... Does anyone know of a good freeware program to convert MP3's to Wav's. Thx, KB

Real is evil. /Carl "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:7xF69.12891$[email hidden]...

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> Musicmatch Jukebox, Real Jukebox, need any others? > -- > Biz > > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and > the....." - Ash > > > K. Button <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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> Does anyone know of a good freeware program to convert MP3's to Wav's. > > Thx, > > KB > > > >

I think you want CDex :-) http://www.cdex.n3.net/ /Carl

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>"K. Button" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >Does anyone know of a good freeware program to convert MP3's to Wav's. > >Thx, > >KB

I'd definately avoid using the WINAMP diskwriter to convert it to a wave, I've read a lot of instances of it having problems. You can use LAME with the -extract option I think to change it to a perfect WAV. Since lame is free ware, and quite frankly, kicks the ass out of everything, I'd say it's a good way to go. Mike http://mikebeauchamp.com "K. Button" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... Does anyone know of a good freeware program to convert MP3's to Wav's. Thx, KB

CDex is a great way to go. It uses the LAME codec, BTW. Ryan -----------== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----= Over 100,000 Newsgroups - Unlimited Fast Downloads - 19 Servers =-----

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:29:41 +0200, "Carl Ribbegaardh" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Real is evil. True, but you can fight the evil: http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml The startup control panel gives you complete control over what does and does not startup with windows. Includes all the hidden ways of starting programs, so it's also handy for defeating spyware. This utility is indispensible. It's one of those things you try and go "Why the $^#% didn't Microsoft make this part of Windows?"

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 23:35:57 -0400, "ymenard" <[email hidden]> wrote: >You use winamp KB? Go in the Preference/option panel, then the output >section of your plug-ins. You will probably have one named "NullSoft Disk >Writer". Just click on it. The bastards moved/hid the "Output" option in v3. Anyone know where it is?

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> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:29:41 +0200, "Carl Ribbegaardh" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Real is evil. > > True, but you can fight the evil: > > http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml > > The startup control panel gives you complete control over what does > and does not startup with windows. Includes all the hidden ways of > starting programs, so it's also handy for defeating spyware. > > This utility is indispensible. It's one of those things you try and go > "Why the $^#% didn't Microsoft make this part of Windows?"

There is a built-in tool that does some of what this one does. At least under Windows 98 it's available from the System Configuration Utility. Run "msconfig" from the Start|Run command - it will let you uncheck all the crap that tends to get loaded at startup. I'm not sure it lets you control the "RunOnce" entries but it lets you control all the other stuff. I run this after I install anything new, and usually end up turning off whatever crap that install program decided I absolutely HAVE to run. My home PC (primarily used for gaming) has systray and explorer running - that's it. I'd love to be more precise about how to use msconfig but I'm at work on Win2K and it's different.