What does the -X n option do?
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From: Mark Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 7:25 AM
Subject: [MP3 ENCODER] More comments from a recording engineer:
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> Here are some more interesing comments from Timothy:
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>
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> From: "Timothy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: LAME
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:49:53 -0800
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> 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
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