Posted by fred-bloggs on 02/10/07 19:28

NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote in
news:RC7zh.24264$fb2.412242@weber.videotron.net:

> fred-bloggs wrote:
>> "mrglass" <mr.glass@gmail.com> wrote in news:1170989381.768077.215610
>> @a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>> I recently ripped my 40CD music collection to my computer.
>>> unfortunately, even though the program said it was saving them as
>>> mp3, it in fact encoded them with wav. Is there a program that will
>>> batch convert my wav files to mp3 (or ogg)? also, is there a utility
>>> that will batch normalize them? Maybe one tool that does both? i
>>> know i have done this in the past, but i cant find a batch converter
>>> anywhere.
>>>
>>
>> You should check that the encoder hasn't just wrapped the files in a
>> wav container, in which case you can just rename them to mp3.
>
> Not really. That would work if the encoder had for some reason just
> given them the WAV extension.
>
> If they are really in a WAV container then a program like WaveMP3 or
> CDex should be used to remove the RIFF-WAV header and give the file(s)
> a proper MP3 header.
>

Sorry, I was being lazy, most of the programs I use don't complain if I
just rename.

--
fred

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