Posted by fred-bloggs on 07/25/06 21:45

davehowey@f2s.com wrote in news:1153857713.647540.220780
@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:

>
> Joel wrote:
>> davehowey@f2s.com wrote:
>>
>> >Can anyone recommend a better (as in audio quality) file format for
>> >encoding high quality lossy?
>>
>> LAME --preset standard. No appreciable difference from CD quality.
>>
>
> so it's not worth bothering with ogg etc.etc. and all these other
> formats?
>
> Dave
>
>

ogg, aac etc perform better than mp3 at low bit rates, but as you are
concerned with best quality you want as close to lossless as you can get
with minimum size, which is Lame preset standard mp3. This gives a
compression factor of about 7. Lossless codecs only manage about 2.

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fred

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