Lame MP3 encoding

Ross1234 · 29 Jan 2009 at 11:57

Hi I want to rip some cd's to my pc for use on my mp3 player. Im ripping with lame mp3. The default setting is
-v 3

Should i change this to anything is this the quality setting?
Thanks, Ross

Ross1234 · 29 Jan 2009 at 12:33

With v3 it sounded terrible. Im trying v2 now

Matteysan · 29 Jan 2009 at 12:58

Use v0 I find it gives the best quality sound for mp3 at a good file size also.

probedb · 29 Jan 2009 at 13:30

Ross1234 said:
With v3 it sounded terrible. Im trying v2 now

In what way sounded terrible? It's the default for a reason.

Go educate over on hydrogen-audio.org before moaning about LAME.

Ross1234 · 31 Jan 2009 at 16:03

probedb said:
In what way sounded terrible? It's the default for a reason.

Go educate over on hydrogen-audio.org before moaning about LAME.

It was really crackly. Im not moaning im just stating how it was. Dont give me that stupid attitude.

Whats the command line for v0? do I just use --V0? thanks for your help Mattey1.

james.miller · 31 Jan 2009 at 16:19

Code:

-V 0  --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tg "%m" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d

dont forget to allow it to add the tags (which is what the additional switches in that code will do). and dont forget to tell your ripper to download the cd info from cddb as well

Ross1234 · 31 Jan 2009 at 16:59

I think v0 might be a bit overkill for me? Its just to put on my mp3 player and on my computer but my headphones are not overly good. Does v2 still retain enough quality?

Spyhop · 31 Jan 2009 at 17:07

Yes - you will notice zero difference.

If v3 sounded terrible then something got screwed up prior to the actual encoding process.

james.miller · 31 Jan 2009 at 17:10

Ross1234 said:
I think v0 might be a bit overkill for me? Its just to put on my mp3 player and on my computer but my headphones are not overly good. Does v2 still retain enough quality?

if your not sure try it

Ross1234 · 1 Feb 2009 at 00:54

james.miller said:
if your not sure try it

I cant tell the difference. Cheers dudes

probedb · 2 Feb 2009 at 20:45

Ross1234 said:
It was really crackly. Im not moaning im just stating how it was. Dont give me that stupid attitude.

Whats the command line for v0? do I just use --V0? thanks for your help Mattey1.

Attitude? I said go to ha for a reason...namely...

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lame

it'll tell you about all the switches, bit rates etc. There's also a whole load of information on there.

As already stated MP3 won't make your music crackly, that's down to something else.

I'll not bother giving any advice next time you ask don't worry.

james.miller · 2 Feb 2009 at 20:46

your reply was pretty arrogant lol. He just wanted help not talking down to.

SourChipmunk · 2 Feb 2009 at 21:14

I've been partial to Audio Grabber (http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/). Seems the default settings do a nice job and the GUI works nicely. Sorry I'm of no assistance with LAME.

Dr.EM · 2 Feb 2009 at 22:14

I'm using Lame front end vers 1.2. This converts from .wav to mp3. I keep my CD's in wav but use this for posting my "creations" online as mp3. If you want a long winded but good way to do it, rip your CDs with dB poweramp music convertor (for which the CD to wav ripping is free) the encode with Lame (LFE)

Ross1234 · 2 Feb 2009 at 22:20

Thanks

Im now using an application called all2lame which is basically a frontend for lame which copies the tags across.

Its working well at V 2 with nice filesizes

Thanks for your help everyone (well almost everyone)

probedb · 3 Feb 2009 at 11:10

james.miller said:
your reply was pretty arrogant lol. He just wanted help not talking down to.

In that case my apologies Ross!

I'd also recommend foobar as an awesome tool when it comes to conversion between formats..including MP3.

Ross1234 · 3 Feb 2009 at 11:12

probedb said:
In that case my apologies Ross!

I'd also recommend foobar as an awesome tool when it comes to conversion between formats..including MP3.

Ok

I can see you didn't mean to sound the way you did.

I will take a look at foobar, thanks.

probedb · 3 Feb 2009 at 20:27

Ross1234 said:
Ok

I can see you didn't mean to sound the way you did.

I will take a look at foobar, thanks.

No probs

It's a bit more messy to get into that something like Winamp but has tonnes of functionality!

TONY · 4 Feb 2009 at 05:26

I am using EAC with Lame, I am happy with the results and have had no unwanted sounds like crackling as mentioned above.

whiskycycle · 4 Feb 2009 at 08:41

TONY said:
I am using EAC with Lame, I am happy with the results and have had no unwanted sounds like crackling as mentioned above.

+1 for that. I've just ripped 400+ CDs (with another 200 or so to go) and EAC + lame has done a spot on job at -V3.

Burned a few back for car compilations and they sound just fine. Could have done them higher bit rate/better lame quality, but to be honest, for what they are being used for it would be a case of diminishing returns and chewed up disk space on the media server.

Of course, as ever, others may have different experiences and opinions.