Some good points here.
I haven't been able to find a binary of 3.98.2 anywhere and don't have the developer tools installed to compile it myself. So 3.97 will have to do for now. There have been some developments, as you note, but we are talking MP3 here....
While I generally agree that quality should be max, it's also up the the client, and many of them have specific target file sizes for downloads, etc. It's not a question of disc space per se, as far as I know. So we find a happy medium.
Cheers,
Thor
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Originally Posted by uncajesse  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  )
The target average of -V 2 is ~192kbps though.  LAME - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase |