List of recommended LAME settings, Discussion Options

[user]

The actual list can be found here:

List of recommended LAME settings


This thread is for discussion about the list.

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Dibrom,

Yes, the problem is that we can't really define the global average bitrate, in other words the global average for music.

The current figures are very rough estimates based on some average bitrates per album, not just one song. They can and will be finetuned, and now that you have optimized your settings further, some more testing needs to be done. I know that r3mix can go much higher and I know that standard can go much lower.

Still I think that for a popular music album there is a very good change that the bitrate will be inside the fork shown on the list.

EDIT: the list version here doesn't have the estimated bitrate forks, and the 170-200 comment on --r3mix is false since it easily goes much higher per album (see the r3mix forum version).