foobar2000: LAME Custom Setting And Parameters
Reply #3 – 2014-02-16 11:04:52
YEAH! THANKS! The reason why I asked these questions, is because, recently, I decided to give a try on Exact Audio Copy (EAC). So I went through all the configurations pages for that, here on Hydrogenaudio. So I needed to enter those command-line options, in EAC configuration page, for external compression... BTW: Do you ppl recommend EAC for ripper? Or perhaps something else? I have also complained about EAC not having a version till 2011 here:http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....howtopic=104643 --preset fast extreme has the same meaning as -V 0 so putting both in same command line is redundant. Yes thanks:Starting with version 3.94, the -Vx quality system was introduced, which allows finer control over the desired bitrate; the --preset switches were made into aliases to the corresponding -V flags for the sake of backwards compatibility. There is no difference between the output you get if you use -V2 or --alt-preset standard. 1. No. --noreplaygain prevents LAME encoder to calculate replaygain which stores it in LAME header and it is not supported by almost any player I now. But, it slows down encoding if you remove this command. LAME Method: Header (mp3infotag) Notes: Tags added during encoding; not supported by any player yet ; Track Gain only Replay Gaining MP3's are usually done using MP3Gain (see above) or foobar2000 Although, that says it all, when I went to EAC page about LAME, and then clicked on Test Encoder, without --noreplaygain, in the resulting output window, at the bottom, I saw, "ReplayGain: -6.9dB", which is rather nice. When I added the --noreplaygain, I did not see this line at all. Isnt it nice to have it there? Also, again here is says something about foobar2000, supporting ReplayGain:Players support->Windows-> "foobar2000 supports ReplayGain in all possible aspects. and also something about "foobar2000 ReplayGain scanner"2. - is command for input file from pipe. If you remove it foobar will not know what input file is. Don't remove it. OU. Thanks a lot for that!3. -S is not really important as console will never be shown. I dont know what this means. But I confirm that I again tested this -S option in EAC's Test Encoder and it was funny. Without the -S, in the resulting output window I saw all those stuff about Compressor Output, numbers and distributions, as well as said the ReplyGain number in dB. When I added the -S option, and Test Encoder, I just see:LAME 3.99.5 32bits (http://lame.sf.net) CPU features: MMX (ASM used), SSE (ASM used), SSE2 polyphase lowpass filter disabled Encoding etmp)!3--.wav to etmp)!3--.mp3 Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0) 4. No point. Safest bet is to use defaul 24bitdepth as you may find some lame compiles do not support 32bitdepth input. Increasing to 32 will not increase quality but it may lead to errors with some encoders. You also have warrning below this option if foobars settings. Thanks. I take your word and put 24 here.5. MP3 is only lossy format so stay with lossy. My advice - don't mess with custom settings for now as you don't really understand what are you doing. I had to because of EAC. Do you know some better ripper than EAC?