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MP3 Compressor
Ahhhhhhh... MP3 Compressor. The first contact I had with an easy to use
MP3 encoder.
I would "rip" the tracks from audio CDs using that famous CDFS.VXD filesystem driver that showed
CDDA tracks as WAV files instead of .cda indexes (yes, this was back in
Windows 98 days) in Windows Explorer. Then I would rename each file with
the track name (CDDB? What?), load all of them on MP3 Compressor and hope
that Windows would not crash in the hour or so that it took to convert
everything. I also avoided using the computer during encoding because I
did not know how to use the process priority slider in the interface, the
default position was "idle" so anything interfered with speed - Word97
was particularly bothersome...
But enough nostalgia! Only many years later I figured out that MP3
Compressor is not really an encoder, but a frontend to the FhG Professional ACM codec (version 1.0.0.48),
which is illegally distributed with the installation.
The interface is quite minimal, you can select the tracks from the input
folder and choose an output folder. The faster mode is also selectable.
Interestingly, bitrate is not an option: for 44.1kHz stereo audio you
get 128kbps and that's it.
Eventually I moved on to CDex + Gogo for my
ripping needs (and kept moving), and I guess with time most people also
abandoned MP3 Compressor. The web site has been gone for decades and I
could not even find archives of it.
Date: 1997-07-18
Version: 0.9f
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Win32
Download: mp3comp.exe - 1.117kB
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