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Poll

What is your LAME setting of choice to encode MOST of your music

--alt-preset standard
[ 110 ] (74.3%)
--alt-preset fast standard
[ 7 ] (4.7%)
--alt-preset extreme
[ 10 ] (6.8%)
--alt-preset fast extreme
[ 0 ] (0%)
--alt-preset insane
[ 4 ] (2.7%)
--alt-preset <bitrate>
[ 5 ] (3.4%)
--alt-preset cbr <bitrate>
[ 1 ] (0.7%)
--alt-preset medium
[ 5 ] (3.4%)
--r3mix
[ 1 ] (0.7%)
--noneoftheaboveIbuildmyowncommandline
[ 5 ] (3.4%)

Total Members Voted: 199

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Your LAME setting of choice

I'd simply like to know the statistical distribution for the usage of LAME settings.

If you use "-Y", "--lowpass" or "--scale" with one of the above, just vote for the base setting like:
--alt-preset standard -Y      ->      --alt-preset standard

for other additional settings, that influence the preset tuning please choose:
--noneoftheaboveIbuildmyowncommandline

If you decided to go with own settings, please tell us how your special command line looks like . . .

Your LAME setting of choice

Reply #1 –
--aps,  but that is only for the rare times i use mp3.  I've moved on to mpc...
"You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight."  Neil Peart  'Resist'

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Reply #2 –
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--aps,  but that is only for the rare times i use mp3.  I've moved on to mpc...

same here.

-andy-

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Reply #3 –
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--aps,  but that is only for the rare times i use mp3.  I've moved on to mpc...

same here.

-andy-

and here 

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Reply #4 –
--apfs -Y, for transcoding from MPC to my portable player.

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Reply #5 –
I moved to flac, but still convert to mp3 for car and portable use.

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Reply #6 –
MPC to Preset fast medium for portable. Otherwise I'd use 3.90.3 APFS  / 3.96 APS

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Reply #7 –
--aps but only in my dvdrip's
normally i use mpc

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Reply #8 –
for those exceedingly rare MP3 that I create for friends it is --alt preset standard with 3.90.3 and the Foobar diskwriter
For 99% of my lossy files now it is MP4, usually in the 40-50 kbps range for my website or 'VBR 6' for cds or anything not website related. Was using MPC and Wavpack briefly.

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Reply #9 –
using preset 102, because i got a tiny flash player (jamaba u100). this is my compromise. i´m using it only on the streets, while driving my bicycle or in the underground, so the little artifacts don´t bother me mucho.
and at this bitrate (only with 3.90.3 i think) lame resamples to 32k so theres less annoying artifacts. tried that with 3.95 and 3.96 and it´s a mess because of HF content an there comes the artifacts...

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Reply #10 –
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--aps,  but that is only for the rare times i use mp3.  I've moved on to mpc...

same here.

-andy-

and here 

same...
She is waiting in the air

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Reply #11 –
When not using Ogg or MPC I have a tendency to veer towards -apm for general listening. I find that the bitrate for -aps is overkill, unless we're talking archiving.

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--aps,  but that is only for the rare times i use mp3.  I've moved on to mpc...

same here.

-andy-

and here 

same...

Wow it seems like I'm part of a crowd . . . finally accepted .

On a side note would the people who voted "--noneoftheaboveIbuildmyowncommandline" please reveal yourselves, your settings and your justification.  I am very interested as to why you would use other settings.

edit: typo
gentoo ~amd64 + layman | ncmpcpp/mpd | wavpack + vorbis + lame

Your LAME setting of choice

Reply #13 –
depends on my mood 

sometimes it's "wow Dibrom looks pretty cool and the VBR bitrate distribution graphs are neat hi-tech", then the other day "ah scrap it, the bit reserviour will do it's job just fine and a CBR file never causes any trouble anywhere"

so I end up 50/50 with ap-s and ap cbr 192 files in my database. not that it would make any difference in the end (to me)

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Reply #14 –
When I use MP3 (for friends), I use --alt-preset standard with either 3.90.3 or latest stable.