Using Audiograbber

Using Audiograbber

Go to your data area and create a folder called "! Audiograbber output" Bring up Audiograbber. It should look like this:

Click on Settings and browse to point to the folder called "! Audiograbber output". Click ok. It should look like this:

Click OK, go back to main menu and click on MP3. It should look like this:

These settings may give you extremely high quality (up to 320 because of Variable, next to highest quality using VBR1, Joint Stereo, quality high, and Original). Get the LAME codec from the Audiograbber main web page at: http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/. This web page also has an excellent Guided Tour of AudioGrabber.

If you are listening to a CD, Freedb will take you to the Internet to find the name of the CD and the names of the tracks on the CD.

Normalize is good and it should look like:

If your computer is not really fast you might want to disconnect from the Internet or at least shut down all browsers so that the conversion from wave to MP3 is not interrupted unnecessarily. When you are ready click Grab. When Grab comes up it should look like this:

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Go to the menu, File, and click on Line In Sampling. It should look like this:

If Audiograbber can hear anything the meters will jump. Name the file anything then rename it to it's actual name after the data is created. Go manual. If Audiograbber can not hear anything check elsewhere to see if a certain audio channel is muted - maybe your sound card has a mixer. Maybe your operating system or your mother board has a sound mixer. Look for a switch called "What you hear...".

Have fun.