Posted by Wes Groleau on 01/14/06 05:45

Wes Groleau wrote:
> I have iTunes and LAME. I'm told LAME is the best and
> iTunes is not so good. I already converted once with iTunes,

With a fifteen minute input file, that plays on conventional CD players,
LAME takes a LONG time to create a zero byte output file. Here's the
end of the run:

Internal buffer inconsistency. flushbits <> ResvSizestrange error
flushing buffer ...
Internal buffer inconsistency. flushbits <> ResvSizestrange error
flushing buffer ...
Internal buffer inconsistency. flushbits <> ResvSizestrange error
flushing buffer ...
Internal buffer inconsistency. flushbits <> ResvSizestrange error
flushing buffer ...
35689/35689 (100%)| 2:46/ 2:46| 6:51/ 6:51| 5.6030x|
0:00 uffer ...
15:32-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps % long switch short %
0.0 59.7 11.6 28.7
ReplayGain: 0.0dB

real 6m51.213s
user 2m20.860s
sys 0m25.610s
Graphite:~ wgroleau$ du -sk Ps*3
0 Ps-119.mp3

iTunes converted with no complaints. No errors
building the latest LAME.

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