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MP3 - Tech / Did Lame 3.99 cause CBR degradation?
Last post by fred-hy -
I prefer Lame 3.98.4 over later versions as I find that it introduces less artifacting to my ears at 128kbps CBR (Haven't ABX'd though)

I've recently looked through the Lame changelogs and it says that version 3.99 made all modes use the same psychoacoustic algo as VBR New, due to one user's sample that sounded garbled in CBR and -q3.

Has anyone done an ABX to confirm that the sound quality is any different?
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by Case -
Very good, should improve performance with all Windows compiles.

Now that we discussed about invalid file state with interrupted encoding I noticed that the Xing header isn't correct in that case. Here's a patch for dev branch to fix that.
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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by Replica9000 -
The dev version is slightly, but consistently faster on my Linux machine. 
CPU: Ryzen 5850U
WAV: 1h 43m

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./hmp3_main -V150 -T50 -HF2 Fragile.wav Fragile.mp3 = 13.018s
./hmp3_main -D -V150 -T50 -HF2 Fragile.wav Fragile.mp3 = 12.914s
./hmp3_dev -V150 -T50 -HF2 Fragile.wav Fragile.mp3 = 12.609s
./hmp3_dev -D -V150 -T50 -HF2 Fragile.wav Fragile.mp3 = 12.519s