What's a good MP3 making program?

[G]

Heya,

I just got a cd deck that plays mp3's. I'd like to copy a few CD's onto one mp3 disk, but I don't have any software for that.

What's a good, free program to convert these files?

[jimmy page]

One of these programs should do the job for you. http://www.share2.com/mp3-converter/

[meatdrink9]

itunes doesn't suck and is free.

[jimmy page]

Itunes/Apple has their own encoding that they use called AAC. It is not the same as a MP3 and you might find that your player won't read it.

Here is a nice article that talks about the difference in formats:
http://www.techcentral.ie/techcentra...ght_format.xml

[Core Shot]

I use itunes.
It does not suck, for me.

I decided not to use the default AAC format so that no matter what player I use, I can still acces my library which is in high bitrate MP3.

You can burn MP3 CD discs from itunes whether or not your library is in MP3 or AAC.

[Arty50]

iTunes will rip cds in whatever format you choose: MP3, WAV, AAC, Apple Lossless, or AIFF.

[fez]

i like Arson a lot http://arson.sourceforge.net/ but it won't help much if you aren't running Linux.

[Shepherd Wong]

EAC/Lame.