[MP3 ENCODER] Different sizes for the same piece

[d.eggerickx]

Hi,   I use Lame (within the RazorLame windows front-end) since a year or two, and I'm being converting my CD's for personnal use (PC, car), but that's not the reason of this mail ! The reason is that I note that a piece of music, extracted from a CD, say twice, with the exact same size for the two resulting WAV files, give two MP3 files with different sizes (with a difference between one and three Ko). Can you explain that ? The extraction is made with the same Cd reader, of course; I say of course but I also note that the same piece of music extracted with two different CD readers giving also exactly the same size, give systematically two MP3 outputs of different sizes. With one piece of music, the MP3 with the first reader is greater than the MP3 with the second reader, but with an other piece of music, the second is the greatest ! Finally, the software used to make the extraction has also some influence : I normally use the GoldWave software to do the extractions, but for test, I do it sometimes with the Plextools utilities which always give a WAV output greater than with the Goldwave, and, incomprenhensible but true, sometimes greater than the real size of the piece of music ! For your best information, I always work in VBR with the best quality, with an Hitachi GD-5000 DVD reader and an Plextor 16/10/40 CD burner for my extractions. With the Goldwave program and with the Razorlame I use the Byte swap option, which give smaller MP3 files and it is no difference in quality with all the situations, the output is the same quality than the original CD (General bitrate at 256, VBR at 320 kbit/s) using the 27 September 2000 Lame executable. Thanks,   Didier Eggerickx 48, rue de Cambron B7870 Cambron St Vincent Belgium T�l : (0032)(0)68/45.57.07 E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]             [EMAIL PROTECTED]             [EMAIL PROTECTED]