Can someone suggest me some softwares (preferably with a download link) to convert .minigsf files into .mp3 ones? Thanks!

WinAmp - to convert .minigsf into .wav

dBpowerAMP
Exact Audio Copy - to convert .wav into .mp3


You can download WinAmp and EAC from their respective websites, just do a Google search. As for dBpowerAMP, I got a cracked version via torrent, I can uplaod it for you if you need it.

Are there any websites explaining how to convert the minigsf into mp3s? I can't seem to find any button that does the trick.

In Winamp, type ctrl-p to access the Preferences menu, click on Output (under Plug-ins) and select the Nullsoft Disk Writer plug-in. After configuring it to your preference, put the track(s) you want to convert into your playlist and play them. Instead of playing them, Winamp will begin converting the tracks to wav files. Hopefully you can take it from there.

Yes, they worked perfectly. Thank you guys so much! :) Now I can finally enjoy my music in the mp3 player.

I want to rip music from a PC game, and I know Audacity can do the job. I want to record the music directly, no wires and all those stuff involved. Just play the music of game, hit the record button and wait till the song's finished.

I've worked with Audacity earlier with ripping PC music, and had no problems, but now I have.

I got a new computer and stuff. I needed to download Audacity again, no problem.

Now I want to record music again the same way I did before, but no matter which option I choose to record (Microphone, Line-in) it won't record any music!

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, some help would be nice!

I'm pretty sure you can just hit record without the use of any line-in or microphone options, if you're recording from the PC. I was able to do it yesterday.

That's the problem, I can't.

I know it sounds weird but I can't record any music!

Does it refuse, or is the recording silent? If the latter is the case, make sure you windows volume meters are around 50% for Mic and Line In.

A friend of mine recorded a gig on his mp3 player, the player in question is a Venture. This company seems unheard of, the item cost 160 euro or something but anyway nevermind that.

The tracks are .WAV files but when I attempt to play them they are called unsupported format, the format is invalid on my psp aswell. They play grand on the actual mp3 player but they don't seem to play elsewhere at all. Anyone any thoughts on how this is happening, know of any codec or software which could help? Cheers in advance

They sound like mp3s in a WAV format. Try renaming the wav files to mp3 and see if that works.

My guess would be that the WAV's are in ADPCM format.

foobar2000 ought to be able to play them.

Yeah I thought you had it there actually when I read this today but it turns out doing that just corrupts the file, it seems to be a variation of a .wav file because its requesting a different codec

Cool, gonna download that now, cheers man.

There used to be a great thread here about the best way to listen to your music on winamp and such, and it gave 2 plugins. One was the MAD plugin for winamp, what was the other one?

i think this question would go here. Does anyone know the name of those keyboard guitars everybody used in the 80's?

You don't need special plugins to play MP3 with the highest possible quality on Winamp. The Nullsoft MPEG Decoder doesn't have any problems.

What's the best way to convert FLAC files to MP3?

With something that uses LAME.

My favourite is ALL2LAME

It needs the FLAC and LAME encoders to do its job. You can pick them up here.

I have a digital piano with a 1/8 headphone jack and I'm wondering if i can use an audio cable to connect that with my computer's microphone jack and use recording software to record what I play? Does that work?
Thanks

You should be using the computer's "line in" or "auxiliary" jack if it has one, NOT the microphone jack. If you don't have a line in or auxiliary jack, then you should get a USB audio recording kit.

But yes, a headphone jack can be used as a makeshift line out. If possible, set the volume on the keyboard pretty low. It's better to have a signal that you have to amplify later, than one that is so loud it's washed out.

Thanks, I'll see if I can get a line in recording device. What's the difference between a line in and mike jack? What would happen if I used the mike jack to record...?

Mic in's are usually mono, and not as good quality in's for recording generally. In fact, unless you regularly use a microphone, mute 'microphone' in your windows (or other) mixer.

- Spike

Also, I may be wrong, but I think mic ins also usually expect a lower level signal than line ins, and so it will be tougher to get the recording not to "clip"... might even be more likely to fry the mic in than the line in.

Does anyone know how to extract music from a DVD? I want to record the credits song in a movie.

help please!
 

Few days ago I downloaded from e mule one folder (Beethoven Piano sonatas Vol.1 with Glenn Gould). In that folder I got one big file (235 mgb) which contains music (.ape) and notepad which is called "readme". I opened notepad and it says this :

What is it:

1. APE file - this is original WAV file ripped by EAC and compressed by Monkey's Audio.
Monkey's Audio is lossless(!) compression (much better than RAR -mM), so when you decompress
the file you can burn it back as Audio CD or encode it with your favorite MP3 tool.
Absolutely no quality loss - you have the same (or as close as possible) WAV file as on
original audio CD.

EAC Tutorial : http://www.ping.be/satcp/tutorials.htm
Monkey's Audio : http://www.monkeysaudio.com

2. CUE file - this file can be used to either split WAV file(not APE!) to tracks (e.g. using EAC)
or you can burn it as audio CD.
To burn it as audio CD - decompress APE file, put WAV&CUE in the same dir and use Nero/CDRwin/EAC/etc.

Why APE:
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/comparison_compression.html


So, I'm curious now, how can I decompress the file so that I can burn it back as Audio CD?

Thanks in advance!:)