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To: appro who wrote (38769)	1/9/2004 11:21:23 AM
From: appro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

CDex proved to be exactly what I wanted to transcode my telephone wav files into compressed mp3 files. I am sure dbPowerAmp would have done as well too. The bottom line is I have 61.1 GB of free hdd space where I only had less than 29 and sinking fast before. Thanks, Esteban and TheCow for the insights. I ended up trying the CDex partly because I had already been looking at it's details based on a three year old post recommending it. Figured it it has survived three years and is still being recommended including for Win XP, I'd start with that. Looks like it does everything I needed very well. It took about ten minutes to install, configure, run a couple tests with sample files and then turn it loose for the night as I went to sleep. Based on watching it for twenty minutes crunching one wav file into mp3 after another, I guestimate it probably ran for a couple of hours total. This morning I had 3.37 GB of mp3 files where I had 35.6 GB of wav files the night before. I used the mono speech quality settings at 44.1 k samples per second. The end result is indistinguishable from the originals to my ears. Exactly what I wanted. Thanks again for the great resource and community everyone here maintains by sharing freely on the Computer Learning thread. Useful Links: Spoon's Audio Guide dbpoweramp.com dBpowerAmp dbpoweramp.com CDex cdexos.sourceforge.net