-V2 gives way too high bitrate!?! Options

[masterridley]

I use dbpoweramp and I encode flac tracks to LAME 3.98r -V2. Usually this results in ~170 to ~220 kbps files (close to 192kbps CBR quality)

Well, not so for 2 As I Lay Dying albums that I have (think REALLY LOUD metal). When I encode those I get 230-270 kbps and of course the resulting files are quite big.

My question is: is this a bug or completely natural?
Furthermore (if it's not a bug), isn't it just better to encode in 192kbps and get a smaller file, since that's the quality I was going for anyway?

Cheers

[greynol]

It was not too long and is well worth reading, benski. If you don't have the time to devote to the entire post, you should have at least read what was labeled "short and concise". It would have certainly taken no more time than it took you to post what you did.

I think [JAZ]'s entire post is quite worthy of being in the wiki provided that it is technically accurate (I have no reason to think it isn't technically accurate). I might be wrong, but I think you've pretty much said the same thing that [JAZ] wrote, but more dense, which might be harder for a lay person to understand. I don't see any reason why that should preclude what you wrote from being in the article if what you wrote can be used to improve it, however.

This post has been edited by greynol: Mar 30 2010, 17:51