> hour (!) BBC radio dramatisation of Lord Of The Rings on CD, and it has
> become a pet crusade of mine to try to squeeze it - with the best quality
> possible - onto a single CD. It's a mixture of near-silence, voice, music
> and sound effects, so good quality VBR encoding would be ideal. The mean
> bitrate would have to be around 100kbps, so I have up to now been using the
> Fraunhofer encoder at 96kbps. I guess I'll have to wait for the VBR core
> (and perhaps the low bitrate support?) in LAME to improve a bit before I can
> consider switching over. I think something like the "bitrate profile" idea
> would also be necessary to do it properly.
Wow! You too? One of my test cases is a nine CD set of Lord of the
Rings! :)
I've also got a couple of others. This is a BIG win for VBR if we can get
it working well enough.
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