jimmyfergus;189257 Wrote: 
> I have to correct myself here in my mp3 vs FLAC tangent-upon-a-tangent
> on this thread.
> 
> What I actually used was "lame --alt-preset extreme", which is supposed
> to be equivalent to -V0.  However, I also used a version of lame that is
> not current (3.91).  I downloaded the latest (3.97) and the "-V0
> --vbr-new" setting gave me something -far- superior.  I only managed a
> _very_ brief listen, and the differences between this, "-b 320", and
> the FLAC were *not* stand-out obvious.  I have to give it a proper
> listen later.
> 
> The previous VBR encoding had sections as low as ~128kbps.

In the end it just goes to show that lossy is not to be trusted to
sound indistinguishable from lossless. I'd never archive material for
the future in a lossy format. (Unless originally recorded as such, of
course.)


-- 
P Floding

No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't even if you ask me. (Especially not if
you ask me.)
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