Matt Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 howdy chaps, already got a shareware version of winlame, which allows me to bounce the wav down to a 128 kbps, but was looking for something that would do the above any pointers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 WinLAME does it too mate. Drag your WAV into the WinLAME window and hit next. Tick whatever boxes you need to tick on that screen, and hit next again. On the next screen choose "Archiving: Best Quality" from the list of encoding options and hit next, then hit the play button as normal to encode. That encodes the WAV(s) at 320Kbps CBR. If you don't have the "Archiving: Best Quality" option, then you're using an older version of the program. Grab the new one from the site and you'll be good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeiPod Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Cool Edit Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 that's the nail there steve, tais that gapless as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monophonic Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Why not VBR? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 what are the advantages of variable bit rate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 LAME is automatically gapless as long as you're using a fairly recent version. 320Kbps is the highest quality you can get as far as MP3s are concerned, but to pretty much everyone, using that setting is overkill. I can't hear any difference between using the V2 (VBR) setting (the "High Quality: HiFi, home or quiet listening" setting in winLAME) and using 320Kbps CBR, yet the VBR file is nearly half the size of the CBR. You can also choose the "Custom settings" option in winLAME and choose your own quality level for VBR encoding - the lower the number, the higher the quality, with V0 being the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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