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 Member 1343 Level 28.80 Mar 2006 
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Encoding mp3s: min. bitrate advisable for VBR?
So recently I've taken to specifying an extremely low minimum bitrate in my VBR encoding, along the lines of 32kbps or less. While setting the max bitrate to 320, and even with a quality of 0 or 1, the filesizes are still relatively pretty small.
Is there a drawback to this? Despite the drastically reduced filesize, I can't imagine there'd be any significant quality loss, right? I mean, the 320 is still applied when necessary, but in places of quiet/low dynamics, it can go all the way down to 32 if need be. I was pretty surprised when I encoded a four-disc recording of one of Wagner's operas and the total size of the collection was less than 200MB. Anyone see a problem with this? Jam it back in, in the dark.  |
Member 1343 Level 28.80 Mar 2006
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I'm using a program called Switch. It's handy and a front-end interface. Honestly I don't know if it uses LAME or not since nowhere in the program is it specified what mp3 encoder it uses. I used to use RazorLame, which I enjoyed, but I got a lot of errors with it and pissed me off.
Most of the stuff I encode is orchestral. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it, but since this includes a lot of very quiet music, it was worth bringing up. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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