JTHZ lame vs presets

Feb 14, 2005 at 9:40 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 3

IstariAsuka

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We both use LAME and MP3 professionally, and the settings mentioned on this page are NOT up for discussion, they are used for the audio WE encode, and they apply to OUR choice of LAME release(s), which often are not those used for specialized presets. For example, the "alt-presets" are called "alt" for a reason; they are alternatives, and our personal experiences with those have not been convincing. A forum like hydrogen-audio (once founded by a teenager with allegedly mutant hearing capabilities) does not mean we should blindly follow consequences of so-called "listening tests" done by those who refused to let us take part in those tests in the first place -- most likely because our test-results would show opposite facts to be true for people with good hearing. Of course, when you put hundreds of monkeys on keyboards, one fine day some of them will surely type something readable.


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Setting we recommend for LAME/MP3 (best quality/size ratio in our opinion):
lame in.wav out.mp3 --lowpass 19.7 -V3 --vbr-new -q0 -b96 --scale 0.99 --athaa-sensitivity 1

LAME, like Ogg Vorbis, is still improving, for bleeding edge of MP3, special commands are often necessary. Note that we're only giving you commandlines for use with version 3.97 and above, which then will result in amazingly high quality (from big to small sized) MP3-files:

-V2 --vbr-new -q0 --lowpass 19.7 --cwlimit 10.7 --scale 0.99 -b96 --athaa-sensitivity 1
-V3 --vbr-new -q0 --lowpass 19 --scale 0.99 -b96 --athaa-sensitivity 1

-V6 --vbr-new -q0 --lowpass 18 --athaa-sensitivity 1
-V7 --vbr-new -q0 --lowpass 17.5 --athaa-sensitivity 1


What do you guy's think? Anyone around here played around with their commandlines?
 
Feb 14, 2005 at 10:03 PM Post #2 of 3
Feel free to try, but always test with ABX comparator against the original and compare results with other settings (alt presets for instance).
 
Feb 15, 2005 at 1:26 AM Post #3 of 3
Obviously, I was just curious if anyone around here already had tried these out, and had opinions.
 

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