I use Max, its free, simple and it seems to do a pretty accurate job of converting my final .wav formatted files from ableton to mp3 without losing clarity. I was curious what other software might be available to do this and in your opinion what does the best job. Also I noticed there are some available options in Max to tweak the encoding algorithm and what may be the best settings for this. Thanks for any input.

link to Max
http://sbooth.org/Max/

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I used to put the mastered .wav to Logic Pro X, turn off circular panning law and render in mp3. Although this required quite a lot of steps because if you want to go from 88,2kHz to 44,1kHz, you need to re-render the .wav into the different sample rate and after that render to mp3.

I have since moved to iZotope Ozone 7’s own encoder, I just render out .wav and .mp3 from there. For conversion to .m4a I use iTunes directly (Create AAC version directly from the .wav source file).

I usually just import the .wav into Audacity/Adobe Audition and export it at the right settings.

I didn't know ozone 7 could export audio file types I'll have to try it out.

Yeah it’s a new feature. It even includes a realtime Codec preview, where you can listen to how it’ll sound in 320kbps, 256kbps, 128kbps and so on. You can also check the difference between AAC and MP3. You can also isolate just the signal lost so you hear exactly what is getting lost along the compression process.

I think it’s rather awesome.

I usually just use iTunes

This is a great free,easy & fast audio converter for both Windows & Mac, I use it all the time.

http://www.mediahuman.com/audio-converter/

I'd be leaning towards Audacity for anyone that can't export in mp3. Something about using Itunes just seems off with me but I could be completely wrong there.

Also if you use FL and didn't realize it, you can export to mp3 directly from the DAW.

Didn't know you could do it in itunes too!

I've been part of the audacity fam for some time now