Re: [MP3 ENCODER] 3.86a, bug with -h ? [re-send]

[Mark Taylor]

> What about an option "adjust-level-for-psycho-model", which increases the
> level for the threshold computation, so low level music is coded with more
> bits. To my mind low level pieces of music with a turned up volume control
> are coded with too less bits. lame is coding for a full scale SPL of about
> 90 dB and that's too less if you are listening at >100 dB full scale SPL.
> 
> Options like '-b128' don't solve this problem. For medium level music there
> are still too less bits. Only the low level parts get enough bits, may be
> also too less.
> 

I just added a "--athlower n" option, which will lower the
ATH by n db.  (it probably cant handle negative numbers, 
so it can only lower the ATH)   

Other people have also reported problems with low level music played
very loud, so the tunings for the ATH may need to be adjusted.

Mark
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