VB Mp3 Ripping

[sminklogo]

Hey does anyone know how to or where i could get code to Rip Mp3s in Visual Basic? Ive looked but cant find anything, thanks. Sminklogo

[dragonb]

what do you mean rip?
Do you want to take mp3's and change them to something else? or make mp3's from cd's?

the easiest way is to grab a commandline mp3 converter, and basically vb just acts as a front end to that, and runs it.

I've seen programs that actually play with the bytes in wav files, and they get pretty complicated.
good luck, dragonb

[strangerstill]

No chance. VB is slow, slow, slow. All mp3 encoders are written in C, with assembler used for the bits where performance really matters. To write an encoder in VB, you'd need to find encoder source, port it to VB (not the nicest of tasks) and witness a performance hit of, say, 95% (i.e. 20 times slower)

Best bet would be either use a commandline encoder or find a library and link to it.