Fix may be valid, but what exactly does it serve? There cannot be any
improvement in quality, rather it may detiriorate (due to re-encoding). If
you
want to change a mono file to stereo - maybe to create a pseudo-stereo
effect, use the decoded output, and duplicate it into left & right channels.

On 5/13/06, Robert Hegemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Am Donnerstag, 11. Mai 2006 10:56 schrieb John Snelson:
> > I'm trying to change a variety of MP3s into a standard 128kbps 44.1khz
> > joint stereo MP3. Most of this works great with the Lame command line
> > front end - unless the input MP3 is already mono. In that case, Lame
> > chooses to output a mono MP3, even if I explicitly specify a "-m j"
> option.
>
> 1. transcoding from mp3 to mp3 isn't a good idea, take the original PCM
> files
> 2. there is no sense in encoding mono files as joint stereo, but with one
>   exception: working around a buggy mp3 device
>
>
> Ciao Robert
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