[MP3 ENCODER] best LAME options for high quality audio?

2000-04-16 Thread lewst
I'm fairly new to MP3 encoding and to LAME, and am trying to find the LAME options that produce the best sounding audio from my ripped CDs. I notice that the default bitrate for LAME is 128kbps, but that allot of the MP3s I download are encoded with 192kbps bitrate. They "seem" to sound better,

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] best LAME options for high quality audio?

2000-04-16 Thread Kali Griffin
I am a musician. I notice crap when I go below 192. I would stay at 224 or 256. your options are fine. If you have a bunch of files to do then use a batch process. -kali On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, lewst wrote: I'm fairly new to MP3 encoding and to LAME, and am trying to find the LAME options

[MP3 ENCODER] Is the -b option broken?

2000-04-16 Thread BBK
I'm trying to make mp3's using LAME for use in my Apex AD600-A DVD/mp3 player, which is quite finiky as to what it plays. Opposite of most players, it has problems with low bitrate mp3's - doesn't play anything below 64kb/sec, and tends to crap out on VBR mp3's that have 32kb/sec sections in

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] 3.80 VBR observations

2000-04-16 Thread Mark Taylor
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Ross Levis wrote: If anyone is interested,VBR is now more spread over the bitrates. Here is a $ bitrate. Some -V tuning is obviously needed. I guess the better lossless co$ Did you notice any quality differences? The main difference is Robert's latest VBR

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Is the -b option broken?

2000-04-16 Thread Sean Harding
On Sun Apr 16 at 10:11:02 PM, BBK wrote: but according to the VBR histogram, it's still generating 32kb/sec blocks, which are undesireable. I think it does that on silence, regardless of what -b setting you have. sean -- Sean Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "You can't fight in here!

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] best LAME options for high quality audio?

2000-04-16 Thread lewst
I am a musician. I notice crap when I go below 192. I would stay at 224 or 256. your options are fine. If you have a bunch of files to do then use a batch process. Thanks for your response. Another question is whether VBR or CBR produces better quality sound? For example, how do the