Re: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] highq mode

[Ivo van Heel]

> People will select
> the quality based not on what features are enabled/disabled
> (which is unimportant, really) but on what their perceived
> gain will be:
> 0 = lowest quality, regardless of actual implementation
> 9 = highest quality
> If we add something that improves quality over the current
> 9-best quality then that will make the new option 9-best
> quality and the old 9 will move to 8.

Exactly! That's the first really sensible thing I've heard on this subject.
If quality improves dramaticly, it should not be activated with a -quality 10
or actually, a -quality 0, but the better quality should be provided using
the same 'use best quality' setting from previous versions, namely -quality 1
or -quality 9, whatever is decided, even if this makes lame run a little slower.

Just my two cents,
Ivo

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