[CLUE-Tech] cdparanoia and ripping CDs with Linux

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:30:20 -0700
"Timothy C. Klein" <teece at silverklein.net> wrote:

> * Jed S. Baer (thag at frii.com) wrote:
> > Oops. I meant 256k/channel. I found the artifacts at 128 to be too
> > distracting.
> 
> I have you tried variable bit rate?  I find this really helps with lame.
> It tries to maintain a certain rate, but increases the bit rate when the
> music is complicated, and reduces it when the music is simple.  I have
> found it makes a difference for music marked by great contrasts (say
> classical, where some of it is very silent, some very loud, many
> voices, single voices).  For lame, I use:
> 
> lame -h -m j --abr 192

I'm doing an experiment. Encoding using lame -r3mix -b112. Found at
www.r3mix.net. I'm going to encode the same track with Ogg, and see if I
can hear any difference. The r3mix site is an interesting read,
particularly if you're into audio.

jed
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