Posted by NRen2k5 on 01/11/06 04:48

pstromer@gmail.com wrote:
> Why has 3.97 never been officially released?

Because the last little kinks are still being ironed out.

> 3.96.1 is dated July
> 2004; I would think that 18 months is plenty of time to work out the
> bugs in 3.97.

You would be wrong. LAME isn't made for profit, and the LAME developers
have real jobs and other projects going on. And on top of that, they
really are trying to make LAME the best that it can be.

> Much as I love the Alt Preset Standard setting, it sure is sloooow
> encoding, so if the newer version has the same quality with faster
> encoding, that would be a welcome development.

In 3.96, try --alt-preset standard --vbr-new. In 3.97b2, try -V2
--vbr-new. They're the same setting, really, but expect 3.97b2 to
perform better. Using VBR New greatly increases the encoding speed
compared to the default VBR method, and it doesn't really hurt the sound
quality.

- NRen2k5

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