Best MP3 encoder for 320kbps MP3's?

MikeHunt79 · 17 Sep 2007 at 23:49

My nokia phone will not play lossless files or OGG's, so I'm having to make 320kbps MP3 files.

I'm using lame with 3.97 with lamedropXPd - will this give me the best quality MP3's at 320?

helmutcheese · 18 Sep 2007 at 00:10

I just use Nero, you can add Lame plugin to it or just use Nero's, at the end of the day its compressed audio on a DAP so can only sound so good.

MikeHunt79 · 18 Sep 2007 at 00:17

I guess so - It won't sound as good as flac, but it should be good at 320.

It's some music which has got subliminal messages in (apparently), so I hope the lossy compression does change things too much as it tries to only get rid of sound it deems inaudible...

GTRacer · 18 Sep 2007 at 00:43

Use EAC to rip CD's and use LAME to encode them. EAC is a very good ripper.

james.miller · 18 Sep 2007 at 00:49

MikeHunt79 said:
It's some music which has got subliminal messages in (apparently), so I hope the lossy compression does change things too much as it tries to only get rid of sound it deems inaudible...

i think thats the least of your worries when your playback device is a nokia phone lol

anyway, lame is the best mp3 encoder. set up correctly, its as goo as you are going to get.

Margaret · 18 Sep 2007 at 00:51

MikeHunt79 said:
My nokia phone will not play lossless files or OGG's, so I'm having to make 320kbps MP3 files.

I can't tell the difference between Flac and and a 320kbps MP3 on my PC let alone my phone or iPod (with Rockbox)

Phones usually have ****y speakers anyway.

MikeHunt79 · 18 Sep 2007 at 02:12

I'm not using the phones speakers

My Nokia is connected to sennheiser hd25's thru a modded hands free nokia adaptor - MP3's sound very good thru decent headphones.

Anyway, I found a way to play back FLACs on my Nintendo DS, so I'm gonna use that instead.

Good to hear LAME is still the best. :cool:

EDIT: For anyone that's interested, here's what files I ended up with. 27 mins of audio:

280mb as WAV
100mb as FLAC
85mb as OGG (Q10)
62mb as MP3 (320)

-Ad- · 18 Sep 2007 at 10:16

phail

-Ad- · 18 Sep 2007 at 10:18

Stick with 128kbps with a nokia phone. It won't use very high grade parts at all, and i doubt the headphone jack is any good at all. Also what headphones are you using.

Save the space and just put more than twice the amount of tunes onto your phone, which will give you more enjoyment than the increase in bitrate of the tunes on that device.

I use 224kbps AAC files on my ipod for everything as they offer a great compromise between size and SQ, but thats because i use um-1's and grado sr-60's. Not much point in going FLAC or high bitrate for portable devices unless your using line out coupled with a decent amp and some expensive phones / IEM's.

MikeHunt79 · 18 Sep 2007 at 10:54

I guess so... my headphones are sennheiser hd25's which aren't exactly high end, but sound good to my ears at least. I soldered up the headphone jack myself, so i used a decent quality connector.

I so seem to get better SQ from the jack on my Nintendo DS compared to the Nokia, I guess it could be a better quality pre-amp or DAC.

I normally use ~128kbps for most stuff on the nokia, it's quite surprising how many hours of music you can get on a 2gb card. It's just this one bit of audio I wanted to have as good as I could, and FLAC is perfect for this. :cool: