Hi, with "--mp3input" is the mp3 first completely decoded to raw and then re-encoded, or is there some frame-reshaping going on? a pub in the neigbourhood wants to encode 500 albums into both VBR -V1 and 192S. question of course is: is there a difference between: A) lame -V1 X.wav lame --decode X.wav.mp3 lame -b192 X.wav.mp3.wav out-A.mp3 B) lame --mp3input -b128 X.wav.mp3 out-B.mp3 ? It'd be nice not to have to encode the 500 albums twice. A too big quality sacrifice is not an option though. any opinions? thanks Roel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )