Brien, If you are encoding digital silence, then LAME should use 32kbps (unless LAME needs fixing). With analog silence, LAME may determine that the background noise is audible, and treat it just the same as if a fading instrument is blended with that noise.
Perhaps at lower VBR rates, LAME should be adjusted (via a preset or switch) to use 32 kbps for very quiet sections. You might first try adding "--athaa-sensitivity" with increasingly negative values, since this option only affects quiet regions. (If this option seems to improve your case, please let me know.) Kind regards, - John Brien Oberstein wrote: > > hi, > > i was wondering whether it is correct for lame vbr to encode long > lengths of silence at 128kbps. i'm using lame 3.91 with the > --alt-preset standard flag. the track that i'm encoding is off is > from a cd with a "hidden track" so there is a few minutes of music, > 15-30 minutes of silence and the some more music. i would have > expected lame to use 32kbps for gap. if this is actually the correct > behavior, can anyone recommend a better setting to use for encoding > these types of files? > > thanks, > brien _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
