Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Bitrate for archival quality (no perceivable differences fromoriginal)

2002-08-02 Thread Chris Holt
Yes, you bring up another good point. Can't create bandwidth and dynamic range that does not exist in the first place. So the degree of compression and whether to use lossy or lossless depends on several factors. Also convience would have to come into play. No fun wanting to load up my MP3 pla

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Bitrate for archival quality (no perceivable differences fromoriginal)

2002-08-02 Thread Michel SUCH
Well, It depends on what you want to archive. I use to archive radio broadcasts of interest for me, and, when in stereo, I use a simple -q 0 --strictly-enforce-iso which means 128 kbps. it's good enough. Now, for music at cd quality, nothing absolutely fine. I have several nome mp3 playing m

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Bitrate for archival quality (no perceivable differences fromoriginal)

2002-08-02 Thread Chris Holt
That's pretty strong. How about "I would not" or "You should not". If that's too much typing an IMHO would suffice. "no perceivable differences" implies a very subjective topic as there are no doubt differences in what each of us is capable of percieving. r3mix preset works for me, with my ear

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Bitrate for archival quality (no perceivable differences fromoriginal)

2002-08-02 Thread Jaroslav Lukesh
| Odesílatel: Olaf Marzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I'd like to know the lame developer's opinion about the bitrate to chose to | have mp3s with no perceivable differences from the original (for 99% of | people, 100% is possible only with WAVs). | I always chose VBR q=2 or 3, in order to have a "