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Best MP3 Encoder

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  • 22-01-2003 3:03pm
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    bombidol
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    Whats everyones views on the best MP3 Encoder, i usually use Blade or Lame, but which encoder produces the best sounds?


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    Mr E
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    Good (but v. technical) article here:

    http://www.arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/1q00/mp3/mp3-1.html

    You can just jump to the conclusions if you want:

    http://www.arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/1q00/mp3/mp3-4.html

    Rgds,
    Dave.


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    Stark
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    LAME is much much better than Blade. Development of blade stopped about 2 years ago. Development of LAME is still going strong though (it's currently at 3.93.1). You can get binaries at http://www.hot.ee/smpman among other places. Official site is www.mp3dev.org/mp3


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    Inspector Gadget
    Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    Listening to my music through Winamp/Isotope Ozone onto a pair of Pioneer SE-A40 open-back 'phones, I find the best results I've had (bearing in mind I only encode at either 192kbps CBR or greater (usually 192kbps VBR, q=2 these days) is the Fraunhofer codec that ships with iTunes on the Mac. It's scarily fast encoding too - iTunes on a 266MHz Powermac G3 -> Quantum ATA33 drive gives Lame 3.91 on my 1GHz Duron (Spitfire) -> Seagate Barracuda IV ATA100 drive a run for its money!

    Don't know if this helps, but...
    Gadget


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