Best way to render mp3s?

jp76 · Post by **jp76** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:10 pm

I've tried using sound forge and saving as mp3, but it sounds terrible. How are you rendering mp3s?

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:19 pm

jp76 wrote:I've tried using sound forge and saving as mp3, but it sounds terrible. How are you rendering mp3s?

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Deft · Post by **Deft** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:29 pm

Use LAME and choose your bit-rate - depends what your end use will be.

David_T · Post by **David_T** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:44 pm

I second the use of LAME -
I use Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) with the LAME "add-on" or whatever, then I do save selection as mp3. Sounds good to me.

Pyros · Post by **Pyros** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:56 pm

Agreeing with the use of LAME. Someone told me the 3.9.0.3 build version is the only one worth using (though this is completely hearsay, Ive never done any tests to verify).

The best way to get quality sound with decent compression is to use the "--alt-preset standard" switch. Its LAME's preset for extremely good quality VBR mp3s, that average about 192kbps - and sound so close to the original that I can't tell the difference most of the time.

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lame --alt-preset standard infile.wav outfile.mp3

Best way to render mp3s?

Best way to render mp3s?

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