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EAC, Lame, Audiobook, Help

Hello,

    I am trying to back up a few of my audiobooks.  I searched around on the HA forum for recommended settings for such a task using EAC and the lame encoder (ver. 3.98.4) and came up with the following command options:  "--cbr 56 -m m --lowpass 15".  I keep receiving an error from EAC that says it is receiving an error from the external compressor.  Can anyone tell me what is going on here?

-Michael

EAC, Lame, Audiobook, Help

Reply #2 –
I'm getting very good results for all my audiobooks using:  -V9 -q0 --lowpass 17 -b56 - %d
But I would not consider this to be the Audiobook back ups.
Ripping the lossless audio from the CD to a lossless container(I like FLAC) imho is a much better and real back up.


Update:

I use the above settings in foobar2000 EAC will most likely need: %s %d at the end.

EAC, Lame, Audiobook, Help

Reply #3 –
Quote from: marcusm on
I'm getting very good results for all my audiobooks using:  -V9 -q0 --lowpass 17 -b56 - %d

Are you using --vbr-old or LAME 3.97? It's my understanding that -q 0 is redundant with --vbr-new, which is the default as of LAME 3.98.

EAC, Lame, Audiobook, Help

Reply #4 –
Quote from: marcusm on
I'm getting very good results for all my audiobooks using:  -V9 -q0 --lowpass 17 -b56 - %d

Lowpass of 17 kHz for audiobooks? Why?

The human voice doesn't go up nearly that high. Is it for the background music?

And why would you force a minimum bitrate of 56 kHz? Don't you trust lame's -V settings?
 

EAC, Lame, Audiobook, Help

Reply #5 –
Quote from: Aleron Ives on
Quote from: marcusm on
I'm getting very good results for all my audiobooks using:  -V9 -q0 --lowpass 17 -b56 - %d
Are you using --vbr-old or LAME 3.97? It's my understanding that -q 0 is redundant with --vbr-new, which is the default as of LAME 3.98.
Yeah, -q3 is default for all LAME modes, and with --vbr-new any values from 0-3 are equivalent (and perhaps 4; I've read various explanations and never seen an official source).