Re: [LAU] What is the best MP3 encoder?

From: Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 28 2013 - 18:48:45 EET

2013/3/28 Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein@email-addr-hidden>:
> On 03/28/2013 04:43 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> ...
>>
>> best result: lame --preset insane <infile>
>>
>
> The "insane" parameter name led me to understand that Audacity do use Lame
> as well. I use the insane parameter when exporting to MP3 from Audacity.In
> that case, I might not be satisfied with Lame at all.
>
> But If "lame --preset insane" is the best thing in the Linux audio world,
> then I might have to rethink how my mixes should be in order to avoid the
> problems. One thing I have noticed is that esses (mostly when accentuated
> from compression), dithering (or not) and tape saturation affects the final
> audio result of a MP3 file.
>
> If,

--preset insane is a "shortcut" to for 320Kbps and that's the best for
mp3 encoding (max bitrate an mp3 can achieve) BTW this result in a
compression ratio of ~1:10 with respect to wav file... so lossy, but
that's mp3

Try sampling at 48Khz or switch to ogg, max bitrate is ~500Kbps

/r

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