[LAU] What is the best MP3 encoder?

Raffaele Morelli raffaele.morelli at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 10:13:19 UTC 2013


2013/4/2 Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein at vait.se>:
> On 04/02/2013 11:42 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> ...
>>
>>
>> Does anybody remember the CD vs Vinyl debate? This thread is going in
>> that direction, really the same old thing again and again...
>>
>> Audio geeks will tend to the "best air particles recording ever with
>> hyper-condeser-mics and... To infinity and beyond!", music lovers are
>> happy (even) with crackling Holiday records from '30 or Lomax
>> recordings.
>
>
> You are 100% right and I was afraid that this would happen in stead of
> getting real focus on my question.
>
> I can probably blame my self for it because I did explain why I wanted to
> know which is the best MP3 encoder is in stead just asking.
>
> J.

Reply to your question is LAME
IMO you don't need to blame yourself, but just be happy with your
mixes, ears... and composition/execution.

Too many variables are involved in music listening, more than the
"statistic pornografy" of an ABX test can take into accunt IMO
(university degree in statistics).

/r

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