ceejay;210530 Wrote: > 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
Yep that might be it - thanks; helps to read the posts more carefully. I installed LAME and EAC a couple of months back and ended up with WAV files. Guess I shoved WAV in the setup somewhere in stead of FLAC. As I gather WAV takes up more room than FLAC with no offsetting advantage I will look over the docs at the URL and review the setup. I downloaded FLAC 1.1.4 yesturday in preparation for much ripping. Cheers -- Mark Scanlan MarkS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Scanlan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35860 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
