She's so small, tiny and crushed up

[venta]

I'm working at home today, and am therefore finally getting round to putting software back on my PC after the Great Evesham Wiping Incident.

So, I want some mp3-ing software. I've always used CDCopy, and that seems to work pretty well. I'm just curious, would anyone recommend anything in particular. Any recommendations should do the following:

• Run on Windows (XP)


• Be free to download ("I'll give you a pirate copy" doesn't count :)


• Be easy to install (I don't really want to faff around looking for codecs, etc)


• Be friendly to use

Thanks for any help.
And kneeshooter, once I've sorted this out I'll chuck that track at you :)

Comments

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

I believe cdcopy ships with the blade encoder only. You can point it at a bunch of other encoders (including Lame) if you want, though.

Blade doesn't, as far as I know, support VBR. CD Copy, in its "using Blade" mode, has no aparrent way to select VBR (as you'd expect); I'm not sure whether that would change if you switched to Lame.

Despite CD Copy's general ease of use, I have to say it does not appear to be straightforward if you want anything other than Blade. So if you want Lame (and that's generally considered to be the best encoder) you're probably better of selecting something else.