What commandline do you use with MPC? Options

[David Nordin]

I want to find out the average commandline of the MPC users, I expect it to be around 6.
The choices are the above HQ modes.
--standard = --quality 5
--xtreme = --quality 6
--insane = --quality 7
--braindead = --quality 8
If you use something else, please comment on what is used.
Examples:
--thumb
--radio
--quality 1-4.99
--quality 8.01-10
tweaked or bla. bla.

[mithrandir]

Originally posted by Gecko
I currently use --quality 5.6 and am thinking about adding --xlevel to that commandline. Why 5.6? That gives me filesizes in the middle of standard and xtreme (q5.5 is closer to standard). q5 is transparent to my ears (except 2nd_vent, but this info is close to irrelevant). I just felt that i could spend a little more bits to help me get that warm fuzzy feeling. I guess in such a situation others go ahead and use q10. I try smaller steps. The quality scale is real nice since I don't have to tweak the command line.
Again, I am aware that what I'm doing is not recommended, but hey, you asked for it.

Gotta love that warm fuzzy feeling.

But it's understandable why it's not recommended. You aren't getting poor quality, of course, but you're simply wasting bits. I suppose the whole purpose of --standard/--quality 5 is that it represents the point where anything higher is hitting the point of excessive diminishing returns. How does 2nd_vent ABX between --quality 5 and --quality 5.6? Maybe you need --quality 8 to gain transparency on this clip, but I guess the trouble is that you'd be "forced" to use --quality 8 all the time to "rule out" the risk of non-transparency and meanwhile you are boosting bitrate by 40% or so.

If you plan to store music on a hard drive only, you can use --quality 10 all the time and realize it's completely unnecessary but you wouldn't have to justify it because hard disk space is so cheap nowadays. But my big thing now is burning my lossy files to CD-R and I'm stuck with a 700MB budget per disc. --quality 10 would mean about 3 albums per CD-R and that rather defeats the purpose. Now that I am using --standard --ltq 30, I can fit roughly 10-12 albums per CD-R...at a quality level is pragmatically transparent.