Suggest ~160kbps VBR setting. Options

[guidryp]

Hi,

Looking at the suggested settings/presets I am dismayed at the lack of a VBR setting that operates at a lower bit-rate.

There is APS standard, which on my music easily averages over 200Kbps. In fact my latest Rush albums are averaging over 220Kbps.

I can see noisy metal taking over 220kbps, but a song like Rush-Nobody's Hero taking 230Kbps?

For me, it calls into question the validity of the VBR model if the answer to lower than 230KBps encoding is to use the ABR/CBR settings.

ABR doesn't seem much better than CBR after watching it encode 90+ % of its samples at the target rate.

Surely a VBR setting can be cooked up that can encode the above track at ~160kbps in VBR and still sound better than 160 ABR.

PS - I want to use this setting in my compact Flash based portable, in my car etc. My max space average is 160Kbps do to the size of the portable memory. But I want the best quality in that space.

Peter

[JohnV]

Originally posted by guidryp
Rush == Metal?? Where does Progressive Rock fit into this scheme (Classic Yes, Rush, Genesis, Jethro Tull)?

I don't really think I listen to anything termed metal. I have maybe 1 Iron Maiden album.  Is that what you mean by Metal? I hate anything with a wall of loud distortion.

Maybe my first test should be to see where -lowpass x makes a difference for me. If I can't hear the difference above 16KHz, there is no point encoding it.

I said I don't know this band. It's of course not the issue what type of music this is to people, it's more an issue what type of music it's to the psymodel.