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Lossy Audio Compression => MP3 => MP3 - Tech => Topic started by: Mateus Reis on 2017-07-13 11:15:01

Title: MP3 CBR320 21.8kHz Lowpass?!
Post by: Mateus Reis on 2017-07-13 11:15:01
What is this mp3 encoder?
for disable lowpass in LAME3.99.5 CBR320 i use --lowpass -1, but in 3.99.5 it is impossible to create a lowpass in this frequency region (21.8kHz)
On Soundcloud streaming this tracks is very clean. Of course the clean depends on how it was worked, but when you have a bad encoder, the music, however clean it may be, can be sweating muffled.

Help me to find this encoder!

Thx!
Title: Re: MP3 CBR320 21.8kHz Lowpass?!
Post by: KozmoNaut on 2017-07-13 13:36:28
Why do you want to disable the lowpass filter? It's there for a reason, you know. Namely increasing the efficiency of the encoder for audible frequencies.
Title: Re: MP3 CBR320 21.8kHz Lowpass?!
Post by: pdq on 2017-07-13 13:58:17
Even if you set a high enough lowpass filter, a good encoder still won't encode sounds that it considers to be inaudible or masked, which is pretty much anything over 20 kHz.
Title: Re: MP3 CBR320 21.8kHz Lowpass?!
Post by: Deathcrow on 2017-07-13 14:28:54
The big question as always: Are you looking for a (inefficient) way to encode pictures of spectrograms or are you interested in the best sound for your audio codec of choice?
Title: Re: MP3 CBR320 21.8kHz Lowpass?!
Post by: Leo 69 on 2017-07-13 14:45:18
Every single reply in this thread can be considered off topic. The question from TS is "What is this mp3 encoder?"
However everyone starts to show what a smart ass he is.
Title: Re: MP3 CBR320 21.8kHz Lowpass?!
Post by: saratoga on 2017-07-13 14:59:20
Every single reply in this thread can be considered off topic. The question from TS is "What is this mp3 encoder?"


No one can tell him that from a spectrogram, so his question cannot be answered.

It is also not off topic to point out that he should not be trying to adjust low pass filtering settings.
Title: Re: MP3 CBR320 21.8kHz Lowpass?!
Post by: shadowking on 2017-07-13 15:24:18
Disabled lowpass is useless since mp3 CBR doesn't usually encode above 16khz with precision (see -Y switch).  Its also not always the best since a difficult sample (noise) can be worse as HF noise may be amplified. For HQ HF encoding I would not use mp3  (assuming you can hear that high in music and it really is an issue).
Title: Re: MP3 CBR320 21.8kHz Lowpass?!
Post by: pdq on 2017-07-13 15:27:22
If one wanted to retain the higher frequencies (which I do not recommend), would resampling to 48 kHz and then encoding work?