Originally Posted by Leto

I need some advice: I have a collection of vinyl which I have started to back up onto my computer as WAV files. Now, my original intention was to keep them all as WAV format, and then to burn them to CD, as separate albums, along with scanning and printing the album art that goes with them, in order to 'preserve' the collection.

However, I recognize that I would like to encode a majority of these to MP3 as well, for ease of use, portability etc.

I have poked around the shareware sites for free encoders, but so far have not had any luck in finding one that will allow me to point to my hard drive as the source of WAV files, versus a CD in the cd drive.

anybody out there have any advice for me?