Have you found a working mp3 encoder for OS X yet? I have not really looked around yet, but I know audiocatalyst (which I used to use) does not work.

Well, I've actually had mixed results with AudioCatalyst; it works for me, but only if a) you don't mind Classic crashing after you've used it (seems to happen always), and b) you don't mind taking the chance that it will bring down Classic while you're using it (happens rarely).

But that's as an encoder - as a ripper, AudioCatalyst doesn't work because it can't see the CD-ROM as low-level hardware. On the upside, OS X has audio ripping built in: just open an audio CD in Desktop and drag the .aiff files to a directory, convert them to normal AIFF's (they're ripped as AIFF-C) using something like SoundApp, and then use AudioCatalyst to encode them.

Alternatively, SoundJam MP for OS X works fine for ripping and encoding in one pass, but I don't particularly like its encoder (in particular, I don't understand their implementation of VBR encoding).


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Daniel M. Zimmerman, Caltech Computer Science
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