Forgive me if this is nothing new, but I encoded a track with lame 3.96 using --preset standard and then with -V 2. The outputs were bit for bit the same. Likewise for --preset extreme and -V0.

Has anyone else noticed this on these or other -V settings?

Yup, this was talked about some time agao . . . give me a sec to find the thread.

V0 = extreme
V2 = standard
V4 = medium

I believe the mapping presets to -V x was done in 3.95

Here's a table:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/?showtopic=18...ndpost&p=177935

Thanks....

This should be useful with certain apps that do not support the --preset functions directly.

the table isn't correct anymore. I think that Gabriel switched the minimum bitrate for --aps to 128 bps instead of 96 kbps.