Hi, I wondered if anyone has any suggestions to make as to what settings are best to encode a radio play? I have a set of 13 CDs that I wish to encode. The CDs contain the BBC Lord of the Rings radio play. The contents of the CDs originally came from a commercial tape set, released by the BBC, and was copied to CD by a friend. It's mostly voice, but there are some sound effects from time to time.
I have tried (with 3.91): --preset voice but this forces mono --preset voice -mj didn't sound so good to me --preset voice -v -mj this grew to average 96kbs I've also tried --abr 64/80/96 and --alt-preset 64/80/96. And -V5 & 8 Plus I notice that "voice" includes --resample 24, which I could add to the abr modes. (Otherwise 80 & 96 they seem to default to 32kHz). I'll keep experimenting, but I only have time to listen to small segments at each setting. And I have to admit that I don't really know what I am doing here, as I don't properly understand what effect the different switches have or how they interact. So, I wish to ask - has anyone done anything similar? What worked best for you? Also - how good is lame at these lower bit rates nowadays? I know that it's great at higher rates, especially with highly tuned settings like r3mix and alt-preset standard. But I seem to recall people saying it isn't so strong at lower settings. Should I consider using a different mp3 encoder, or something like ogg? Yours, Ed --- http://www.ed.martin.dial.pipex.com/ PGP Keyfp = EAB0 CC28 6C65 CF3A AAAF A171 124C 965C 21AE 2840 "I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little hole. How much reality can there be in that?" -- David Hockney _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
