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I am a new user and am posting this record of my use of multi encoder for all to learn from, and to ask a question of your community.
I bought dBpoweramp to convert all my old music CD's to Flac and mp3 format. My computer system is a PC using Win 10. Just used the Rip CD mode with standard settings for the multi encode function. Made no changes. The Flac files seem good, but the mp3 files have a pronounced echo. The song starts then a few seconds later seems to start again with the iterations of the song playing over one another making the mp3 unusable. My first thought was that there was a problem with the settings but I looked closer and found the following.
After I ripped the first few CD's and noticed this was a common issue not just a bad CD or old format problem, I realized I was listening to the playback of these MP3 files to check them on the same win10 pc that I created them on. I have never been a big fan of any microsoft products so to just to be safe and open minded about what I was hearing, I put the files on my NAS for distribution to my home network. I then listened to the same "bad" MP3 files with my Yamaha Stereo system. And Guess What? They sounded great, almost as good as the Flac versions!!!
I even tried listening to some real old CD to mp3 conversions I did over a decade ago with nero with the Win 10 PC and they had a very similar but less evident Echo also.
So I Immediately thought WTF is wrong with microsoft's media player. Did a little search on this site and found an obscure thread about changing the microsoft codex in the windows registry to match those more current and better codex used in dBpoweramp. I found the thread a little bit lacking in exact and precise syntax and verbage to feel comfortable screwing with the registry, though.
My Question to the community is this. Is there a better music player I should consider for my PC that will always have the latest codex? Or can someone who knows create a cleaner version of the process of changing the windows registry codex, so a newby like me can't screw up the registry making the changes. And if I make that change in registry, will it need to be updated in the future?
Thanks so much for a great product, and the help of the community. Hope this post is helpful for others so you don't think there is something wrong with you or dBpoweramp.
I bought dBpoweramp to convert all my old music CD's to Flac and mp3 format. My computer system is a PC using Win 10. Just used the Rip CD mode with standard settings for the multi encode function. Made no changes. The Flac files seem good, but the mp3 files have a pronounced echo. The song starts then a few seconds later seems to start again with the iterations of the song playing over one another making the mp3 unusable. My first thought was that there was a problem with the settings but I looked closer and found the following.
After I ripped the first few CD's and noticed this was a common issue not just a bad CD or old format problem, I realized I was listening to the playback of these MP3 files to check them on the same win10 pc that I created them on. I have never been a big fan of any microsoft products so to just to be safe and open minded about what I was hearing, I put the files on my NAS for distribution to my home network. I then listened to the same "bad" MP3 files with my Yamaha Stereo system. And Guess What? They sounded great, almost as good as the Flac versions!!!
I even tried listening to some real old CD to mp3 conversions I did over a decade ago with nero with the Win 10 PC and they had a very similar but less evident Echo also.
So I Immediately thought WTF is wrong with microsoft's media player. Did a little search on this site and found an obscure thread about changing the microsoft codex in the windows registry to match those more current and better codex used in dBpoweramp. I found the thread a little bit lacking in exact and precise syntax and verbage to feel comfortable screwing with the registry, though.
My Question to the community is this. Is there a better music player I should consider for my PC that will always have the latest codex? Or can someone who knows create a cleaner version of the process of changing the windows registry codex, so a newby like me can't screw up the registry making the changes. And if I make that change in registry, will it need to be updated in the future?
Thanks so much for a great product, and the help of the community. Hope this post is helpful for others so you don't think there is something wrong with you or dBpoweramp.
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