Mark Scanlan;210528 Wrote: > I'm confused, not least because I stayed in bed too long thismorning so > am a bit dim witted today. I'm looking at setup and ripping directions > from http://www.olate.co.uk/articles/35 I did a couple of rips a while > back but can not afford any further delay and want to now start ripping > my library (I don't have an SB or transporter yet as I'm moving country > soon to either 230v or 120v system ... will find out which in the next > few weeks). > Olate recommends using LAME MP3 Encoder for external compression, and > then in 'additional command line options' there are 3 options possible: > "alt-preset extreme" is said to give a little more 192. I'm now > confused given what you have said above. If I have confused 2 separate > things here, I assume that if I want the best possible recording I > should use "alt-preset insane" = 320kbps CBR?
You are confused because you are mixing up ripping to FLAC with ripping to MP3. Jim's comment was about ripping to FLAC, where the bit rate setting is irrelevant. LAME encodes to mp3, where the bit rate is very important. Choosing bit rate depends on the trade off you want between size and quality. But if you want "the best possible quality" then you should be using FLAC (or another lossless format), not mp3. If you want the "best possible mp3" then 320kbps VBR is a good place to go (320k CBR is just a waste of space IMHO) HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35860
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