A little question about mp3 v0

245kbps is the target bitrate of -V 0 LAME encoded .mp3 files so you end up with something in the  220...260 range according to the wiki I read on Hydrogenaudio. -V 0 can use 320kbps frames but how many it uses, I imagine, depends on the music being encoded. I'm no expert when it comes to .mp3 encoding it must be said. Hope that helped a little.  

This is a breakdown of a 176kbps vbr file (not sure of the encoding settings) so yes it seems it can reach 320kbps. I'm not sure about the mouse-over issue.

Bitrates:
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32 | 1.0%
128 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 27.3%
160 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 33.7%
192 |||||||||||||||||| 15.3%
224 ||||||||||| 9.8%
256 ||||||||| 7.8%
320 |||||| 5.1%
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Originally Posted by plonter 

Hi.  I just started using mp3 v0 files in my dap.  my question is rather simple and i didn't manage to find answer after i searched a little.    I know that the avarage bitrate in v0 is something like 265 more or less.  but does it reach 320?  does it go that high? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have seen V0 files go past 300kbps, and approach 320 for brief moments.....the more complex the music, the more likely it is that you will see it. foobar2000 has a real-time VBR indicator....that's where I saw that.

Yes, it can go up to 320 kbps. Also see the lame.exe options -b and -B (min and max allowed bitrate in VBR mode).

With "pointing at the file" do you mean in Windows Explorer? Either the Explorer (older version of Windows?) doesn't read the file correctly or you accidentally created a 320 CBR file.

Both foobar2000 and Windows (7) Explorer display the average bitrate correctly on my machine.