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Originally Posted by Thor  Sonovo-MBP:Desktop Thor$ lame "Great Song Master.wav" --bitwidth 24 --clipdetect --vbr-new -V2 -b 192 "Great Song Master.mp3" |
-b doesn't do anything if you specify a
-V. Also there should be a space between
-V and
2. --vbr-new gets used by default since 3.97b and later. Also 3.98.2 fixes problems with CBR, and has a few slight improvements for VBR too, you should be using it. It also detects the bit depth of accepted input formats, so
--bitwidth is not needed. The output mp3 is also the same name as the input with a changed file extension, so that's not needed either.
lame "Great Song Master.wav" --clipdetect -V 2 -q 0
That would be a better command-line to try using. The
-q 0 sets the quality of the encoding to maximum. Personally I use -V 0 though, which averages to a bit under 256kbps for most of what I encode. With 1TB external drives selling on Buy.com for $99 bucks now, there's no reason not to max quality. (or just use FLAC, for that matter
)
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Originally Posted by Thor For this particular client a bitrate of 192 was specified (although we were allowed to use VBR instead of CBR for slightly better quality) |
Actually it is possible to do a bit-rate defined version of VBR, called ABR... where it tries to use the bits where it can inteligently, but it keeps the relatively short-term average bitrate whatever you intended. ABR is not recommended because the quality isn't as good as VBR, and many times you end up near the same size with a much better quality in VBR. ABR can force the encoder to use more bits where it sometimes isn't needed, so that's part of the problem when compared to straight quality VBR using the
-V string. (which ignores
-b)
The target average of
-V 2 is ~192kbps though.
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