Moguta's Guide to MP3 Ripping

Why don't you add in Monkey's Audio? As far as Windows is concerned, it's the best lossless audio codec (yes, I'm very biased, but the compression ratios are so great).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Star Man Aevum

How so very strange.

The encoding method I was using was:



Yet, all that would happen is that I'd get WAV files. I pulled that from the LAME Wiki. Hmm, oh well.

Hmm, start with "-V 2 --vbr-new" and work your way up from there. One of the switches *could have* broken LAME's ability to encode properly (I have problems adding more than -V 2 --vbr-new with LAME and foobar2000 all the time, its command line can be picky).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by ArrowHead

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

-b320 %s %d

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.

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

Originally Posted by ArrowHead

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

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

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.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?