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Old 05-22-2004, 08:24 AM   #1
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grip and lame settings


I've spent my whole day searching for optimal settings for the lame encoder. It seems that vbr with joint stereo is the way to go. Only problem is: as soon as I change the default settings in Encoder command-line grip stops making mp3's. I tried out the setting on the command line first (lots of different ones, as an example, lame -V 1 -m j file.wav) This works great, but if I put the same parameters in grip it doesn't encode mp3-files

Any ideas?

BTW, the standard setting that is working is -h -b %b %w %m which make crappy 128kbits files
 
Old 05-22-2004, 09:32 AM   #2
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You can use BladeEnc to transform wav to mp3. It has several options, hope will be usefull for you.

http://www2.arnes.si/~mmilut/BladeEnc.html
 
Old 05-22-2004, 09:39 AM   #3
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I want to use lame, I just need to adjust the parameters so I get JS VBR
 
Old 05-22-2004, 12:03 PM   #4
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In that case, "man lame"
 
Old 05-23-2004, 06:16 AM   #5
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I just recently reinstalled Grip. The lame options I use are either --alt-preset extreme %w %m or --alt-preset standard %w %m. These alt-presets create very high quality VBR mp3's in joint stereo and it takes quite a bit longer encoding using these settings, but I think it's worth it.


Håkan
 
Old 04-02-2005, 06:20 AM   #6
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Thanks hw-tph, or should I say "Tack sa mycket" (sorry can't find my Swedish keys so the spellings a little off...)

Anyway I've just been Googling how to set up LAME for the last 20 minutes before finding this thread. I knew I should have come to LinuxQuestion.Org first !

But for anyone else interested in the optimal LAME settings there's a good straightforward page on the AfterDawn forums (actually there are loads of good pages there !) Anway the one of interest is:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/1912

Now wouldn't it be nice of one of the many Linux apps that use LAME could produce a front end as good as CDEXs so we could make sense of all the command line switches ? Not that I'm complaining mind as I couldn't write anything better myself

Hope this is useful.
 
Old 04-02-2005, 06:32 AM   #7
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Try using kaudiocreator lame works in it.
 
Old 04-02-2005, 09:22 AM   #8
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You can get almost equal quality to EAC/LAME 3.9.0 with alt-preset switches with
cdparanoia setting in grip and dont use lame that comes with your system use an older version thats been proven.Like
lame-ha -v
LAME version 3.90.3 MMX (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
ha stands for hydrogen audio...pretty much the guru for lame.

I have debian so I add this to sources.list

## RAREWARES REPOSITORY
deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable ./

than apt-get update
apt-get install lame-ha


You can grab it from rarewares.org or from hydrogen audio forumz has the older version links.

As for the switches...that depends on the quality...I like "alt-preset extreme"

My rips come out great.cdparanoia is the closest you will get to EAC securemode rips.
 
  


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