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