Re: using lame

2009-10-29 Thread steef
Jean-François Pirlet wrote: This is only partly correct. The real answer is you can convert from any lossless format to lossy to acheive the desired results. WAV is uncompressed lossless audio data, whereas FLAC, Wavpack, etc. are lossless compression file formats that also have the ability to

using lame

2009-10-28 Thread steef
hi folks, some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing mp3_files with 48Kbit 320Kbit. my question: does this r e a l l y gives an improvement of sound quality [ceteris paribus] google came up only with some hunches. regards, steef, user with

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2009/10/28 steef debian.li...@home.nl hi folks, some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing mp3_files with 48Kbit 320Kbit. my question: does this r e a l l y gives an improvement of sound quality [ceteris paribus] No. You can achieve sound improvemente

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread steef
Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2009/10/28 steef debian.li...@home.nl mailto:debian.li...@home.nl hi folks, some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing mp3_files with 48Kbit 320Kbit. my question: does this r e a l l y gives an improvement of sound

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Mark
2009/10/28 steef debian.li...@home.nl hi folks, some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing mp3_files with 48Kbit 320Kbit. Here's a good link that explains transcoding, which is what your question is about:

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
This is only partly correct. The real answer is you can convert from any lossless format to lossy to acheive the desired results. WAV is uncompressed lossless audio data, whereas FLAC, Wavpack, etc. are lossless compression file formats that also have the ability to store ID3 tag info

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Mark
Jean-François Pirlet jf.deb...@gmail.com wrote: The mp3 is to the CD what the abstract is to the book, if you want. If you have the book, you can write the abstract, but the other way round won't work. [snip] You could also go from mp3 320 to mp3 160 (gaining disk space but losing quality). But