What Birate Mode?

by **leepeach** on Tue Apr 20, 2004 1:28 pm

Does anyone recommend using VBR over CBR? Ive read that VBR gives better quality but 95% of the music i download is CBR.

by **Vladd44** on Tue Apr 20, 2004 1:41 pm

i suggest using CDEX to rip and encode music.

Using LAME encoders VBR is the way to go IMHO

by **loopy not signed in** on Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:38 pm

Hi Loopy not signed in again...

http://lame.bakerweb.biz/

a handy site?

by **Guest** on Mon May 10, 2004 10:49 pm

Use Lame 3.90.3 with only this setting for high-quality VBR MP3's:
--alt-preset standard

95% of the music out there is in CBR because 99% of the people who make or share MP3's are newbies or idiots.

by **Freez** on Tue May 11, 2004 6:07 am

Guest wrote:95% of the music out there is in CBR because 99% of the people who make or share MP3's are newbies or idiots.

Thats a matter of opinion guest. :evil:

I always rip at 192 according to these settings and my rips are perfect quality regardless of the condition of the CD I copied.
And I am neither a newbie or an idiot - So UP YOURS asshole!

by **Canada Joe** on Tue May 11, 2004 11:40 am

Certainly have to agree with Freezmizer on this one. When I first started with ripping I took the advice of Tech TV's Leo Laporte (neither newbie nor idiot) and ripped @192kbps (he said less loses quality & more only your dog can tell the diff). Still rip @192 today but most of my new stuff comes in the form of .shn or .flac files (fat goomers) so I've taken to converting them to CD Quality VBR and they do seem to sound better (according to Fred The Dog anyway).

(day later) After checking with a few connoisseurs of fine music the majority agrees with Vladd... CD Quality VBR (Lame preferred) gives the best quality/space ratio.

by **uninvited guest** on Tue May 18, 2004 1:46 pm

["Thats a matter of opinion guest."] sure is Freezmizer, coz i can tell the difference between a 320k MP3 file and the original WAV file so i guess my ears still have plenty of years to go before it all sounds the same

by **Canada Joe** on Tue May 18, 2004 7:59 pm

uninvited guest wrote:["Thats a matter of opinion guest."] sure is Freezmizer, coz i can tell the difference between a 320k MP3 file and the original WAV file so i guess my ears still have plenty of years to go before it all sounds the same

Of course you can... so can we all. You've completely missed the point... finding a bitrate that gives an acceptable quality/space required ratio. I have more than a TB of drive space but could never fit all my music on it at .wav or even 320kbps. :roll:

p.s. Telling the diff. between .wav & 320 is much easier than say 256CBR & Highest quality VBR

by **Guest** on Sun May 23, 2004 4:10 pm

Anonymous wrote:
Guest wrote:95% of the music out there is in CBR because 99% of the people who make or share MP3's are newbies or idiots.

Thats a matter of opinion guest. I always rip at 192 according to these settings and my rips are perfect quality regardless of the condition of the CD I copied.
And I am neither a newbie or an idiot - So UP YOURS asshole!

That guide tells you to use Lame DLL rather than the EXE!

You are a newbie after all. Clean your language up a bit and save yourself from being judged as an idiot.

by **Guest** on Sun May 23, 2004 4:14 pm

Anyway it's still a lot better than the AudioCatalyst + Xing or Blade combo that 99% of people out there still seem to be using.

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I need to mention something.

Doesn't anybody else here find it odd that 16-year-old kids these days are using 5-year-old software to encode brand new CD's?

WTH, do "normal" people rarely buy new computers, or do they just keep crappy old software without updating and then install the same old crud on new computers... ?

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