best mp3 preset and settings for 128 kbps CBR Options

[m3gab0y]

Hey guys, maybe it's discussed before (I found only the threat from 2003), and sorry if i'm posting duplicate.

I have a radiostation that obviously has output frequency responce of 30 hz up to 16 khz, with brickwall filters, and some other fancy equipment....
I want to steam this station at 128 kbps and achieve the best possible quality of a CBR 128 KBPS mp3 encoder. Did I mention that the input material is 99.9% lossless audio?

I currently use edcast with Lame 3.93.1 using preset=12 and quality=0 and I'm getting decent results. But I hear lots of dirrerence between the original output and the stream. Am I doing something wrong? And is there better way to squeze more out of the mp3 codec?

This post has been edited by m3gab0y: Jun 5 2011, 22:53

[benski]

Most streaming server services charge for bandwidth, not total data transferred. If you're going to do ABR with a hard cap, you might as well do CBR at the cap. You'll get objectively higher quality without any additional cost. The only advantage to ABR with a hard cap is that you might have some additional bandwidth to buffer new listeners faster.