Iīm trying to solve a problem here: My buddy sent me this part of a log file.
EAC extraction logfile from 19. March 2004, 11:44 for CD
Unknown/Unknown
Used drive : SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T Adapter: 2 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Combined read/write offset correction : 0
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : G:\AUDIO\LAME.EXE (Monkey's Audio Lossless Encoder)
High Lossless Compression
Additional command line options : %l--alt-preset 128%l%h--alt-preset standard%h %s %d
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Installed external ASPI interface
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename G:\Name.wav
Peak level 98.9 %
Range quality 100.0 %
CRC EA11A57F
Copy OK
He claims that the file is only compressed with Monkeys Audio, but isnīt lame a mp3 codec? Another thing what bothers me are those additional command line options. To me it clearly seems to be lossy compression. The file itself takes about 275 MB in ape format, and is 38 minutes long. This on the other hand could be only compressed with ape, but why is that lame.exe in there? Havenīt heard it myself, so I canīt say any comments about the sound quality. Confused...
Ozzhole
Full Version: Is this lossless or not?
After reading your post twice I would say that your buddy's encode is LAME APS...correct me if I am wrong...
He could have transcoded to APE from MP3 which would be really stupid™.
Try running this tool to find out.
Try running this tool to find out.
QUOTE (Ozzhole @ Apr 7 2004, 06:09 PM)
Iīm trying to solve a problem here: My buddy sent me this part of a log file.
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He claims that the file is only compressed with Monkeys Audio, but isnīt lame a mp3 codec? Another thing what bothers me are those additional command line options. To me it clearly seems to be lossy compression. The file itself takes about 275 MB in ape format, and is 38 minutes long. This on the other hand could be only compressed with ape, but why is that lame.exe in there? Havenīt heard it myself, so I canīt say any comments about the sound quality. Confused...
[...]
He claims that the file is only compressed with Monkeys Audio, but isnīt lame a mp3 codec? Another thing what bothers me are those additional command line options. To me it clearly seems to be lossy compression. The file itself takes about 275 MB in ape format, and is 38 minutes long. This on the other hand could be only compressed with ape, but why is that lame.exe in there? Havenīt heard it myself, so I canīt say any comments about the sound quality. Confused...
let me get this right:
your friend sent you a log file of his rip/encode, claiming he encoded to .ape,?
now, the file is still at his place and you got (a part) of the log?
what's this all about?
does your friend want's (via you) verify his settings, or what? I don't quite understand the whole purpose of this thread...
an option that would clear things up, is that your friend just edited the log, hence the contradicting terms (lame + .ape)...
edit: spelling
I didn't made any test to verify if this is possible, but, couldn't be that your "friend" (what kind of friends do you have, BTW 
) managed to get to this absurdely weired result renaming Monkey Audio executable to "lame.exe" and then convincing EAC to use it to generate an APE that pretends to be an MP3 and encapsulate it in a WAV container? This would be really wicked... Talk about EAC newbie-unfriendliness... 
Cheers!
Sergio
) managed to get to this absurdely weired result renaming Monkey Audio executable to "lame.exe" and then convincing EAC to use it to generate an APE that pretends to be an MP3 and encapsulate it in a WAV container? This would be really wicked... Talk about EAC newbie-unfriendliness... Cheers!
Sergio
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