Niklas Matthies wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to convert a larger amount of audio material pretty soon, for
> archiving purposes (i.e. the material will be gone after that, so I
> won't have a second try). The source material is in CD format (16bit,
> 44.1 kHz).
>
> All things considered, I'm currently inclined to simply use
>
> lame -k -h -b 320
>
> because
>
> - my soundcard forces resampling to 48 kHz, so I can't monitor the
> exact result of the decoded mp3 anyway
Nice card :-) Maybe a sounblaster (uh-oh) Live?
> - storage space doesn't matter much at this point in time
> (i.e. 20-25% compression is already quite acceptable)
Then use a lossless compression.
Monkey goes near 50% , I understand.
David Balazic
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