> > I've been wondering about this for a long time. I mean, since these 22.05kHz
> > have already been encoded to MP3 once, and LAME decodes, upsamples or downsamples
> > it, then encodes it to MP3 AGAIN, how much does the quality suffer from re-encoding
> > the file?
> I would guess that the quality loss is large.
> It only makes sense for something like 128kbs -> 24kbs, where the
> quality loss from the bitrate reduction is much greater (and the
> re-encoding quality loss doesn't matter so much)
So, actually, the --resample is only useful when using broadcasting techniques
I'm guessing...
Ivo
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