Alto-MP3 Maker is an easy-to-use audio grabber, CD Ripper, MP3 CD Maker,WAV to MP3 Converter and MP3 to WAV Converter Software. Alto-MP3 Maker extracts digital music from audio CDs and encodes them into MP3s, which enables you to make perfect copies of the original sound tracks as smaller sized MP3. If you want to make your own MP3 from audio CD , this is exactly what you are looking for. With full CD audio playback control function, AltoMP3 Maker can work as a freedb-aware CD player. AltoMP3 Maker can also make Ogg Vorbis files from Audio CD and wave files.

If you want a software that is easy to use, rips and decodes fairly quickly, encodes about average but gives good quality, Alto MP3 Maker is your program. It uses the LAME encoding engine which you can adjust in the options category to make MP3s from 32-320kbps or a variable bit rate encoding option which LAME uses very well.

If you have WAV files on your computer already, Alto MP3 Maker will act as a WAV to MP3 converter through its simple interface. For extracting music from CD, Alto did well. The ripper hovered around 1 min. for an average song to be converted to WAV.

For converting MP3 to WAV, the decoder worked fairly quick and produced a good file. For ease of use, Alto MP3 Maker even lets you simply right click on a WAV file through Windows Explorer. You can also choose the program to automatically normalize the WAVs on conversion to get them ready to burn. The software author also puts out MP3 CD Converter, a software that burns MP3 or WAV to CD.

AltoMP3 Maker Main Features:

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Perfect output quality with high speed.

Freedb enabled.

Both ID3V1 & ID3V2 tag supported.

ID3 Tag editable.

Easy to understand and intuitional instruction.

Extremely easy to use & very friendly designed interface.

Runs well on all 32-bit Windows operating systems, including Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME.

Alto-MP3 Maker Supports larger scale CD-ROM devices.