Posted by reply on 11/16/40 11:39

On 10 Feb 2006 00:54:42 -0800, googly-al@ashbourne-town.com wrote:

|Thanks
|But it does not answer my question:-
|
|"You first need to be aware of which settings give you MPEG1" - yes
|indeed, that is my question!
|
|What are the switches needed for MPEG1 output? As far as I can see, the
|lame docs do not make it clear.
|
|Regards Alan. F

Not sure which docs you mean, but if you use LAME with -HELP and also with
--LONGHELP, this should give you what you want. Easiest way if you are in
doubt is to get Razor Lame and let it feed you the settings based on what you
enter. Easiest way to read is to use
LAME --LONGHELP > LAME.TXT
and then you have it all in a text file to read, search, and print.

The settings you want make a difference based on the input quality, and what
is it. For example for Classical music from my old LPs I use the switches
-b 256 -m s -p --resample 44.1 --lowpass 15 -q 6 -h
and for converting BBC dramas and britcoms from the Real Audio on the web I
use
-b 64 -m j -p --resample 44.1 --lowpass 15 -q 3 -h

These switch combinations, along with a few million others, will give you MPEG
1 output.

The smaller the bitrate the more audio tracks you can put on your player.
When the Diamond Rios first came out with only 16 mbytes, 32 kbs was what most
people used and you'll still find that on a lot of OTR mp3s.

Each person has their own favorites found by experimentation or reading web
pages.

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