Posted by Wes Groleau on 01/15/06 02:17

Wes Groleau wrote:
> Wes Groleau wrote:
>> With a fifteen minute input file, that plays on conventional CD players,
>> LAME [description of crash snipped]
>
> That was lame -a --comp 48
>
> No options worked, with the typical 10:1 ratio.

What I meant was that it worked with no explicit options.

lame -a --comp 48 xx zz # crashes

lame --comp 48 xx temp \ works
lame -a temp zz /

The quality is noticeably better than the file from iTunes,
but it's also four times the size.

> Stereo buys nothing in these files, so I thought
> that converting to mono would cut the output size in half
> with no other changes (allowing the above to be 24 vice 48).

That worked. "lame --comp 21 mono.aiff mono.mp3" is
much better quality than "lame --comp 42 ster.aiff ster.mp3"
(and slightly smaller).

when I make ster.aiff into mono.aiff with another tool first.

Is there a way to do the whole thing with LAME?

--
Wes Groleau

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whom are you going to speak it to?
-- Clarence Darrow

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