I just happened to rerip the same CD i'd already ripped on my desktop (1GHz Duron, Soyo MB) on my laptop (Pentium II 266MHz). I'm running the same unstable version of Debian on each with lame compiled with gcc 2.95.4 on each, also. I figured the encoded versions on each machine should be the same size, but they're not. lame encoding settings used are exactly the same (--preset studio -v), and the id3v2 tag info is exactly the same for each pair of songs (laptop/desktop).
The difference in file sizes between laptop / desktop is (bytes): 69 1467 -2797 1788 1141 -1253 -3554 2451 (where the average mp3 size is 5.3MB). Although i would have guessed that the file sizes should be the same, i would have ignored the difference except i periodically see the following error on my desktop several times during the course of encoding a CD (just ripped a cd and it happened 4 times): probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. Probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. So, my concern is that this might actually be causing errors in the encoding and that that's why the file sizes are different. I kind of doubt it, but i thought i'd ask. craig _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
