Moguta's Guide to MP3 Ripping

Are you using EAC? Check to make sure there isn't a typo in the commandline you're having it send to LAME.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Hmm.

Stupid question if there ever was one, but are you sure you hit the button for ripping to MP3 and not the one for ripping to WAV?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hhhmmm....... well I can't think of anything else, but if you can show me a screenshot of EAC's MP3 settings, maybe something will stand out to me.

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Well in case anybody else stumbles upon this part of the thread and doesn't care to search.........

-b320 %s %d

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Originally Posted by Kaiten

Why'd someone use 320kbps? -V 0 (aka --preset extreme) works and doesn't use too many bits for the low complexity samples in the file. It'd be nearly impossible to find anyone who can tell the difference between -V 0 and 320.

Because just technically speaking, 320kbps CBR will give you the best quality MP3 has to offer.

Originally Posted by Tir

I have same problem, and I did everything just like the guide said. Does anyone have any clue what's wrong here? Otherwise I'll just have to use some other ripping program.

Check the "compression queue"… ? With EAC open, try holding Ctrl and pressing Q.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well if it's full of listings, then jobs have been sent to the compression queue but haven't been performed.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to use EAC's compression queue. All I can really suggest is to make sure "make all compression tasks sleep" is turned off and try ripping a CD again.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Kaiten

Yeah, but I feel using 320kbps CBR over -V 2 or -V 0 like saving a CD as a wav file as opposed to a FLAC, it wastes space and doesn't improve quality. I'd love to see an ABX test of someone being able to discern -V 0 from 320kbps, it's damn impossible unless you have dolphin hearing.

True. Still some people will want to do it. And wasting space for an infinitessimally better quality is better - as far as dumb moves go - than hurting the quality.

Also, you never know, but some circumstances may dictate the need for an as-good-as-possible MP3 but require CBR. Then you would want to use 320kbps.

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Originally Posted by RyuFAN

Quoting
"MP3:
-V 2 --vbr-new %s %d"

are there any higher quality (224-320) VBR codes like this (apart from the 320 CBR "-b320 %s %d")?

-V1 --vbr-new %s %d

-V0 --vbr-new %s %d

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Can you show me a screen shot of the "Compression options" -> "External compression" menu?

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Originally Posted by Trench

I just cannot figure out wtf this link is talking about. There is no first download link. There is no download link, period, and the LAME site doesn't offer a compile.

Could somebody help explain to me what I'm missing here?

First link under the External Links header.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Sewers still exist? Haven't been showing up for me for ages........

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.