Here are some more interesing comments from Timothy: ------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: "Timothy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: LAME Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:49:53 -0800 Mark, I was playing around with the -X n in the command line for LAME 3.60 and I found -X 3 delivers a much better overall sound that is stunningly decent in VBR mode. It actually made joint stereo sound good for once with few if any artifacts and an airy top end that wasn't grainy with a 165 kb/sec average. Here is the command line I used for it: -V 6 -b 128 -B 224 -m j -h -X 3 I used Alanis Morissette's MTV Unplugged CD, track 10 King of Pain. Very nice overall sound at an extremely reasonable bit rate. I feel most users would like the result and not really pick up artifacts with most material. The default setting produced artifacts in the high frequecies with a faint shaker and chimes in the backround. But the -X 3 setting does it beautifully all the way down to a 165 kb/sec average. I could not get the default setting to encode certain backround sounds without artifacts regardless of how high the average bitrate was. But the -X 3 option cleaned up alot of upper midrange and high frequency garbage. Sounds nice and airy in the demanding live acoustic music I chose to test it with. There was little if any descernable difference between VBR 6 at 165 kb/sec and VBR 5 at 180 kb/sec which was surprising to me. I'm still putting 3.60 through the paces. I'll try out more difficult sounds because I am very impressed this time and intrigued with the -X 3 setting. It may just seem to be doing a good job with this one piece of music. We will see how it stands up to real torture. :) Later, Timothy ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )
