Ishaan Dalal wrote:
> All in all, you should stick to joint stereo...Lame automatically > encodes normal stereo when it feels it should. I wouldn't agree with this. If your ears are attuned to mp3 artifacts and you know what to listen for, you'll find joint stereo does introduce some faint artifacts where true stereo does not. Lame 3.87RH was my favourite for a long time, as it produced great VBR files at a reasonable bitrate with the following settings on Windows: -b 128 -m j -h -k -V1 On average, the files would be about 175-195 Kb/s. With 3.88, the same setting resulted in bigger files [~200-250 Kb/s] and sometimes the quality was worse! Now, with 3.91, I have found a modified switch set that works great: -b 128 -m s -h -k -V1 --athlower -10 The athlower setting drastically reduces filesize [~175-205 Kb/s] while quality is still great, near transparent and pretty much the same as 3.87RH, if not better. Switching to stereo in lieu of joint stereo increases filesize by ~5% but is definitely worth it. Try it and see for yourself. Cheers Jason _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
