[MP3 ENCODER] Preservation a ID3 tags

2000-07-27 Thread Marc de Lange
Wouldn't it be useful if lame was able to automatically copy the ID3 tags from the source file to the destination when reencoding with the --mp3input option? I don't like it that after reencoding all my tags are lost. Marc de Lange -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )

[MP3 ENCODER] To use VBR or not not use?

2000-01-20 Thread Marc de Lange
I want to convert a CD to mp3 files with a good quality and a reasonable file size. I played around with the VBR setting and found that using the follwing switches (lame 3.60): -h -k -lowpass 999 -b 32 -B 224 -v -V 3 results in mp3 files in stereo with a means bitrate of about 182 kbps. I

[MP3 ENCODER] Disabling lowpass?

2000-01-13 Thread Marc de Lange
I am interested is VBR encoding so when I discovered LAME I started to play with it. For relative low quality I used -V 7 and didn't specify a minimum bit rate. To increase the quality I changed to -V 5 and added -b 64 (or something comparable). After upgrading from 3.50 to 3.58 I saw that a