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John33's Ogg Vorbis encoder with a nice drag-and-drop interface. Windows only.

Features

Compression from lossless files (Monkey's Audio, LPAC, FLAC, and OptimFROG)
Auto-tagging
Renaming of encoded files
Setting of advanced encoder parameters
Use of VorbisGain tags (ReplayGain for Vorbis) on decode
Playlist (.m3u) creation
And many others!

Manual

Installing

Extract the ZIP file you download (see the Download section below) to any folder.
If you use the processor-optimized version (i.e. for P3/AMD or for P4), also copy libmmd81.dll into the same folder. You can get it at RareWares.
(Optional) Create a shortcut and copy it into your Start Menu or your Desktop or your QuickLaunch bar... you get the idea.
If you want support for encoding from lossless file (other than FLAC support which is built-in), extract the proper decoders in the same folder. You can get them at RareWares.

Configuring

Note: All ScreenCaps taken from OggDropXPd v1.8.7

Start OggDropXPd. The small Drop Target window will open:

Right-click on the small window. The following menu will be displayed:

Click on a menu item to change the options. Each menu item is described below.

Encoding Options

This is used to configure the Vorbis Encoder

General EncoderOptions

This is where you choose the quality of the encoded file.

Use Standard Quality Mode -- Recommended

This ensures the highest quality, although you cannot exactly determine the bitrate.

You can either type the exact -q value in the textbox, or drag the slider. Higher -q value gives better quality at the expense of larger file size.

For some guidelines on what -q value to use, check out the Recommended Ogg Vorbis page.

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Download

You can download the latest version from Vorbis page at RareWares.

A highly-optimized version is also available at the Ogg Vorbis Acceleration Project, with the codename of Lancer.

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