Audiograbber is the front end that Xing have licensed to put over the top of their less than perfect MP3 encoder.

Or, to put it another way, AudioCatalyst is Audiograbber with the Xing MP3 encoder bundled (and sold by Xing).

If you are at all interested in getting good quality, artifact free MP3 files, then give AudioCatalyst a miss. The Xing MP3 encoder is terrible, getting worse as the bitrate rises (yes, I know, sad isn't it!).

The best bit of AudioCatalyst is the Audiograbber front end. Do yourself a favour, and use Audiograbber with the Lame 3.87 DLL.

For more info on how bad Xing really is, take a look at:

http://r3mix.net

Andy.

Edited by Bagpuss on 15/10/00 08:48 PM.