What mp3 encoder are you using?

Starbucks · 13th February 2004, 01:55

Software title, bitrate, etc.

grumpyBB · 13th February 2004, 02:14

CDex

I encode mp3's at 320k and .ogg between quality settings 8 and 10

DuaneJeffers · 13th February 2004, 02:18

LAME with RazorLAME FrontEnd (get the WAVs from EAC). 256Kbps CBR bitrate.

-Duane

Mike H. · 13th February 2004, 04:41

Winamp with a plugin for Ogg Vorbis ripping. ~128kbps VBR.

(Does that count?)

Sandman2012 · 13th February 2004, 04:43

EAC to rip to ogg q -8.

Triton4 · 13th February 2004, 05:28

For Ripping:
EAC (to MP3 at 192kbps)

For Converting to mp3:
LAME 3.95 (--alt -preset extreme)

ctn|chrisw · 13th February 2004, 06:24

CDEX ripping to q8 ogg

ryan · 13th February 2004, 06:51

CDEX - 192kbps OGG (q6 I believe)

Cognition · 13th February 2004, 07:09

dBpowerAMP for ripping CDs, at 192kbps
LAME (some random version) for encoding, also at 192kbps

baafie · 13th February 2004, 09:53

-q6 for ogg

(don't encode in mp3)

Twilightseer · 13th February 2004, 11:16

I rip the Wave files with EAC in secure mode (I prefer it to CDEX since CDEX doesn't get rid of the gaps between songs).
Then Razorlame + Lame 3.95.1 (alt preset standard) : perfect quality, reasonable size, very fast

gaekwad2 · 13th February 2004, 11:35

Ripping: CDex and EAC, CDex paranoia full is a lot faster than EAC secure mode and still quite safe but EAC's gap scanning is indeed very useful and absolutely necessary to rip hidden tracks.

Encoding: Musepack --quality 5 --xlevel
Faster, better and smaller than mp3.
(for video sound I use Vorbis1.01 q2)

Coman · 13th February 2004, 12:07

ripping: winamp
encoding: all converter, dbpoweramp
128kbps

Mr_007 · 13th February 2004, 13:23

You can guide me for encoding new digital audio cds?

Twilightseer · 13th February 2004, 13:25

Quote:

Originally posted by Mr_007
You can guide me for encoding new digital audio cds?

Which means ?

Mr_007 · 13th February 2004, 13:30

Mean is this that new cd creating with digital technology
and you cant easy encoding this file to mp3.

EfaustuS9 · 13th February 2004, 15:35

Music Match 7.5 Plus. Fast and Easy, even though it may be unpopular with this winamp clan. 196kbs is my pref bit rate

In the rare event that it has conflictions then I use CDex.(ie: converting GTA III sound track (PC vers.)to Mp3 format

)

Merlin · 13th February 2004, 16:10

CDex, 160Kbps mp3, lame 3.something. Works on my walkman, sounds good, files aren't too large.

shizawn · 13th February 2004, 18:44

EAC for ripping
lame 3.90.3 with the --alt-preset standard parameter for encoding. I use some lame frontend but I can't remember what it's called.

DuaneJeffers · 13th February 2004, 19:08

Quote:

Originally posted by EfaustuS9
Music Match 7.5 Plus. Fast and Easy, even though it may be unpopular with this winamp clan. 196kbs is my pref bit rate

In the rare event that it has conflictions then I use CDex.(ie: converting GTA III sound track (PC vers.)to Mp3 format )

Uh, most of the GTA III soundtrack is in Mp3 format. Like the radio stations are and the missions are in WAV. If you are talking about the missions, then why?

also ... YOU WILL BURN IN HELL FOR USING MUSICMATCH ... (sorry, just had to you know

)

-Duane

bored154 · 13th February 2004, 22:34

Quote:

Originally posted by DuaneJeffers
LAME with RazorLAME FrontEnd (get the WAVs from EAC). 256Kbps CBR bitrate.

-Duane

what he said

gaekwad2 · 13th February 2004, 22:49

Quote:

256Kbps CBR bitrate.

Why CBR?

fwgx · 13th February 2004, 23:02

CDEx with full paranoia for ripping and Lame 1.32 engine 3.95 at --alt-preset insane, because I can and also because MP3's generally are really shit when compared to a proper CD through my hi-fi. Encode at this quality and I can burn a CD and play it through the hi-fi good as new.

DuaneJeffers · 13th February 2004, 23:05

Quote:

Originally posted by gaekwad2
Why CBR?

Because I have an old Mp3 player that doesn't support VBR. Sorry, but I am too broke to go and buy a new one.

-Duane

randman · 14th February 2004, 01:13

Rock/Pop I'm going to keep on my computer to listen to with my 80 dollar Logitech speakers: EAC to rip, LAME to encode at 192kbps.

Classical music I'm going to keep on my computer to listen to with my 80 dollar Logitech speakers: EAC to rip, Ogg at -q7.

Stuff I'm going to burn to a "compilation disc": EAC to rip to wav. No compression.

Exact copy of a CD for "backup" (

): CloneCD to image file to CD.

EfaustuS9 · 14th February 2004, 03:11

Quote:

Originally posted by DuaneJeffers
Uh, most of the GTA III soundtrack is in Mp3 format. Like the radio stations are and the missions are in WAV. If you are talking about the missions, then why?
-Duane

You are right the Radio stations, "Chat" in particular, are in a Mp3 format, but it is a form of Mp3 which is resistent to copying or converting to wav.CDex was able to resolve the hole matter thankfully.

brynd · 14th February 2004, 11:02

An old version of AudioCatalyst 1 or 1.2 on a 200mhz pentium with 130mb ram from a 48speed cdrw. reads at 6x encodes at about a third of that

zootm · 14th February 2004, 15:39

ogg -q6

deadrabbit · 14th February 2004, 15:59

CDEX, Vorbis ~160

ScorLibran · 14th February 2004, 16:11

The overall best MP3 encoder and setting...

LAME v3.90.3 or v3.95.1, and using "--alt-preset standard" for the highest sound quality per bitrate (i.e., efficiency). With this setting (which is a quality-based VBR mode), it turns out a bitrate between about 190kbps and 210kbps. For a slightly lower bitrate at almost the same sound quality, try "--alt-preset medium" (~160kbps to 180kbps).

I personally use FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), the v1.1.0 reference encoder.

And for my portable, which only plays CBR-encoded MP3, I use LAME v3.90.3 --alt-preset CBR 128.

Agent007 · 14th February 2004, 18:14

do lame --preset insane;

GqSkrub · 16th February 2004, 00:53

anything free?

Merlin · 16th February 2004, 01:07

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ - free

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ - free

Mike H. · 16th February 2004, 01:07

I think this thread should be renamed to "What Ogg Vorbis encoder are you using?" because most people here seem to be using Ogg.

ScorLibran · 16th February 2004, 04:38

Quote:

Originally posted by Agent007
do lame --preset insane;

Actually, it's LAME --alt-preset insane, which is the same as "--alt-preset CBR 320".

However, any catastrophic transparency failures using --alt-preset standard have only rarely shown an improvement with --alt-preset insane, while using about 50% more disk space per track.

Therefore, there is really no such thing as "encoding headroom" to justify using bitrates higher than the transparency threshold (which --alt-preset standard provides), but --alt-preset insane can provide the "warm fuzzies" that come with using the guaranteed highest quality setting for MP3 encoding.

Then again, for the ultimate "warm fuzzies", there's always FLAC.

@GqSkrub: LAME is free for MP3 encoding, as is Exact Audio Copy and CDex for CD ripping. (Ogg Vorbis and FLAC reference encoders are free as well.)

Also, CDex is not an MP3 encoder. It's an extraction tool that can call an MP3 encoder while ripping. The fact that is can do this seamlessly makes it "act" like an encoder, but it's not the one doing the encoding to MP3. The CDex engine only rips from CDA to WAV, then calls an encoder to go from WAV to any other format.

gaekwad2 · 16th February 2004, 09:03

[nitpick]Since Lame 3.95 (or even 3.94)--preset is the same as --alt-preset.[/nitpick]

Russ · 16th February 2004, 09:36

I use FLAC these days. I got fed up with re-ripping stuff in Vorbis for the PC, 192kbps MP3 for the iPod, and 128CBR for last.fm.

So I now rip to FLAC and use that on my PC, and then transcode to everything else.

s0be · 16th February 2004, 10:01

grip, ripping using cdparanoia, full paranoia, then ogg -q6 (highest my neuros will play)

s0be

Omega X · 16th February 2004, 10:07

EAC rip to dBpowerAmp Music converter - Musepack .mpc /Standard setting.

I found it fustrating to have EAC encode it. DBPA does it so much better and faster.

GqSkrub · 16th February 2004, 16:57

Quote:

Originally posted by Merlin
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ - free

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ - free

thanks merlin.

13th February 2004, 01:55	#1
Starbucks Forum King Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Forums Posts: 2,685	What mp3 encoder are you using? Software title, bitrate, etc.

13th February 2004, 02:18	#3
DuaneJeffers Major Dude Join Date: May 2001 Location: Winter Park, FL Posts: 1,776	LAME with RazorLAME FrontEnd (get the WAVs from EAC). 256Kbps CBR bitrate. -Duane Website Yeah, that's pretty much it. :-\

13th February 2004, 04:43	#5
Sandman2012 <3 foobar2k (Forum King) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 3,202	EAC to rip to ogg q -8. pabook.net

13th February 2004, 11:35	#12
gaekwad2 Foorum King Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: bar2000 Posts: 11,149	Ripping: CDex and EAC, CDex paranoia full is a lot faster than EAC secure mode and still quite safe but EAC's gap scanning is indeed very useful and absolutely necessary to rip hidden tracks. Encoding: Musepack --quality 5 --xlevel Faster, better and smaller than mp3. (for video sound I use Vorbis1.01 q2) Fuck this place.

13th February 2004, 12:07	#13
Coman Punk (Forum King) Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: 4.5th dimension . . Posts: infinitely few Posts: 2,799	ripping: winamp encoding: all converter, dbpoweramp 128kbps "Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?"

13th February 2004, 02:14	#2
grumpyBB Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 359	CDex I encode mp3's at 320k and .ogg between quality settings 8 and 10

13th February 2004, 04:41	#4
Mike H. Forum Esperantist (Major Dude) Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,135	Winamp with a plugin for Ogg Vorbis ripping. ~128kbps VBR. (Does that count?)

13th February 2004, 05:28	#6
Triton4 Major Dude Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: CA Posts: 1,307	For Ripping: EAC (to MP3 at 192kbps) For Converting to mp3: LAME 3.95 (--alt -preset extreme)

13th February 2004, 06:24	#7
ctn\|chrisw Forum King Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hell Posts: 3,309	CDEX ripping to q8 ogg

13th February 2004, 06:51	#8
ryan not fucked, not quite. (Forum King) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Tn Posts: 8,755	CDEX - 192kbps OGG (q6 I believe)

13th February 2004, 07:09	#9
Cognition Some Random Guy (Major Dude) Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NZ Posts: 1,241	dBpowerAMP for ripping CDs, at 192kbps LAME (some random version) for encoding, also at 192kbps

13th February 2004, 09:53	#10
baafie feminazi (Major Dude) Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 1,768	-q6 for ogg (don't encode in mp3)

13th February 2004, 11:16	#11
Twilightseer Le Poison dans la Bouteille [Moderator] Join Date: May 2000 Location: Lavabo, fond du couloir, 3ï¿½ porte ï¿½ droite Posts: 6,296	I rip the Wave files with EAC in secure mode (I prefer it to CDEX since CDEX doesn't get rid of the gaps between songs). Then Razorlame + Lame 3.95.1 (alt preset standard) : perfect quality, reasonable size, very fast

13th February 2004, 13:23	#14
Mr_007 Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,838	You can guide me for encoding new digital audio cds?

13th February 2004, 13:30	#16
Mr_007 Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,838	Mean is this that new cd creating with digital technology and you cant easy encoding this file to mp3.

13th February 2004, 15:35	#17
EfaustuS9 Major Dude Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: MA, USA Posts: 1,892	Music Match 7.5 Plus. Fast and Easy, even though it may be unpopular with this winamp clan. 196kbs is my pref bit rate In the rare event that it has conflictions then I use CDex.(ie: converting GTA III sound track (PC vers.)to Mp3 format )

13th February 2004, 16:10	#18
Merlin ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (Forum King) Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Manchester Posts: 4,209	CDex, 160Kbps mp3, lame 3.something. Works on my walkman, sounds good, files aren't too large. as he faced the sun, he cast no shadow __________________

13th February 2004, 18:44	#19
shizawn Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 52	EAC for ripping lame 3.90.3 with the --alt-preset standard parameter for encoding. I use some lame frontend but I can't remember what it's called.

13th February 2004, 23:02	#23
fwgx Rudolf the Red. (Forum King) Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 9,315	CDEx with full paranoia for ripping and Lame 1.32 engine 3.95 at --alt-preset insane, because I can and also because MP3's generally are really shit when compared to a proper CD through my hi-fi. Encode at this quality and I can burn a CD and play it through the hi-fi good as new. .: fwgx.co.uk.:.My art:. "We think science is interesting and if you disagree, you can fuck off."

14th February 2004, 01:13	#25
randman Ol' Dirty Loser (Major Dude) Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Parts unknown Posts: 1,287	Rock/Pop I'm going to keep on my computer to listen to with my 80 dollar Logitech speakers: EAC to rip, LAME to encode at 192kbps. Classical music I'm going to keep on my computer to listen to with my 80 dollar Logitech speakers: EAC to rip, Ogg at -q7. Stuff I'm going to burn to a "compilation disc": EAC to rip to wav. No compression. Exact copy of a CD for "backup" ( ): CloneCD to image file to CD. I see no stinking sig! Do you see a stinking sig?

14th February 2004, 11:02	#27
brynd Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: New Zealand Posts: 1	Ripper! An old version of AudioCatalyst 1 or 1.2 on a 200mhz pentium with 130mb ram from a 48speed cdrw. reads at 6x encodes at about a third of that

14th February 2004, 15:39	#28
zootm Forum King Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: the nether reaches of bonnie scotland Posts: 13,378	ogg -q6

14th February 2004, 15:59	#29
deadrabbit Major Dude Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: VT, US Posts: 612	CDEX, Vorbis ~160

14th February 2004, 16:11	#30
ScorLibran Resident Floydian Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 6,226	The overall best MP3 encoder and setting... LAME v3.90.3 or v3.95.1, and using "--alt-preset standard" for the highest sound quality per bitrate (i.e., efficiency). With this setting (which is a quality-based VBR mode), it turns out a bitrate between about 190kbps and 210kbps. For a slightly lower bitrate at almost the same sound quality, try "--alt-preset medium" (~160kbps to 180kbps). I personally use FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), the v1.1.0 reference encoder. And for my portable, which only plays CBR-encoded MP3, I use LAME v3.90.3 --alt-preset CBR 128. I'm a psychosomatic sister running around without a leash.

14th February 2004, 18:14	#31
Agent007 Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 63	do lame --preset insane;

16th February 2004, 00:53	#32
GqSkrub Major Dude Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lancaster Pennsylvania Posts: 896	anything free? No sig here folks.

16th February 2004, 01:07	#33
Merlin ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (Forum King) Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Manchester Posts: 4,209	http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ - free http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ - free as he faced the sun, he cast no shadow __________________

16th February 2004, 09:03	#36
gaekwad2 Foorum King Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: bar2000 Posts: 11,149	[nitpick]Since Lame 3.95 (or even 3.94)--preset is the same as --alt-preset.[/nitpick] Fuck this place.

16th February 2004, 09:36	#37
Russ Mostly Harmless (Alumni) Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: UK Posts: 2,319	I use FLAC these days. I got fed up with re-ripping stuff in Vorbis for the PC, 192kbps MP3 for the iPod, and 128CBR for last.fm. So I now rip to FLAC and use that on my PC, and then transcode to everything else. For long you live and high you fly, but only if you ride the tide, and balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave. \|Musicbrainz\|Audioscrobbler\|last.fm\|

16th February 2004, 10:01	#38
s0be Major Dude Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: melbourne Posts: First Posts: 1,313	grip, ripping using cdparanoia, full paranoia, then ogg -q6 (highest my neuros will play) s0be And On that day, the Lords of the land said unto their Master Architect, "The temple you have made to the gods of Wasabi and Maki has brought us no great prosperity" and they sent out him into the lands. As he traveled to a far off land, he found he wasn't traveling alone, but that he had gained companions, and when they found their new land, they started work on a new temple, one that would be OPEN to all who wanted to worship. from The Book of Wasabi C 12 Vs 09 (pg 2003)

16th February 2004, 10:07	#39
Omega X Forum King Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: A Parallel Dimension Posts: 2,233	EAC rip to dBpowerAmp Music converter - Musepack .mpc /Standard setting. I found it fustrating to have EAC encode it. DBPA does it so much better and faster. Webmaster @Order Of The Mists [OOM]

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