foobar2000

foobar2000 is a powerful and clean music player under windows platform. it support for many useful functions, including MP3 conversion.

although some people love lossless format of music, e.g. APE or BIN with CUE playlist, but i still prefer MP3 format for many reasons:

it is one of the most common lossy music format now a day, compare with WMA or even OGG
unicode is now supported with ID3V2 (it is very useful as i collect JPOP music mainly)
it can combine with many other solutions, e.g. musicindex, icecast (i am now studying about this), or even my SonyEricsson Z550i ;-)
it save my storage space, and the quality is really acceptable when it is in 320kbps CBR format (i think that is meaningless to play a lossless format music when i am traveling in MTR, or in my office)

by default, foobar2000 only provide 190kbps VBR encoding preset, which is far not enough for today requirement. here is a simple HOWTO, about how to configure foobar2000 as such useful music converter.

you will first need to setup the following correctly:

forbar2000: just get it from official site. i am now using v0.9.4.2. get it from here:
http://www.foobar2000.org/foobar2000_0.9.4.2.exe
lame binary for Win32: foobar2000 don't come with lame. i am now using v3.97. get it from here, and place both lame.exe and lame_enc.dll under the root directory of foobar2000:
http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html

or here:
http://edin.no-ip.com/~hswong3i/recycle_bin/programs/foobar2000/lame3.97...

iconv binary for Win32: it is useful for unicode ID3V2 supporting. i am now using v1.9.1. get it from official site, and place both charset.dll, iconv.dll and iconv.exe (can find them under /bin directory within zip file) to root directory of your foobar2000 installation:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25167&package_id=5...

or here:
http://edin.no-ip.com/~hswong3i/recycle_bin/programs/foobar2000/libiconv...

any other 3rd party components for foobar2000

if you are as lazy as me, after install foobar2000, get this package and override your foobar2000 installation:
http://edin.no-ip.com/~hswong3i/recycle_bin/programs/foobar2000/foobar20...

the next is the configuration of encoding preset for foobar2000:

go to File -> Preference (or simply press CTRL + P)
go to Tools -> Converter. you will see all encoding preset that you currently have
press Add New, and configure as like as following:

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that is! you will now have the new encoding preset for 320kbps MP3 conversion!

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