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Abnormally high bitrates using LAME 3.90.3 APS

Using APS with LAME 3.90.3, a certain album is giving me bitrates around 250 kbps.  What is going on?

Abnormally high bitrates using LAME 3.90.3 APS

Reply #1 –
Are you encoding heavy, guitar-based music (hardcore, punkrock or metal) by any chance?
These genres tend to cause a bitrate bloat, due to a lot of high energy signals which fall into the SFB21 frequencies.

If you want to reduce the bitrate try either using 3.96.1 or --alt-preset standard -Y.
"To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world." Or maybe your words.

Abnormally high bitrates using LAME 3.90.3 APS

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Are you encoding heavy guitar-based music (hardcore, punkrock or metal) by any chance?

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Yep. that's it.  Thanks a lot.
 

Abnormally high bitrates using LAME 3.90.3 APS

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If you want to reduce the bitrate try either using 3.96.1 or --alt-preset standard -Y.
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I'd rather use LAME 3.96.1 --preset standard insetad of using LAME 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard -Y 
--alt-presets are there for a reason! These other switches DO NOT work better than it, trust me on this.
LAME + Joint Stereo doesn't destroy 'Stereo'