A question has arisen on another forum which I found interesting and not being a user of mp3 (anymore) could not answer to my satisfaction.

In the current version of Audiograbber the presets are not available to select for lame_enc.dll

A user can choose a variable bitrate method such as old, new, MTRH or ABR. They then can select a between low and high quality (vbr9 > vbr 0). Finally they can choose Mono, Joint Stereo, Stereo or Dual Stereo.

The questionner was asking what, if any, combinations of these switches would give them a setting equal to say --alt -preset standard.

For example would Method Old - VBR 0 - Joint Stereo be equal or more likely close to aps? Or are none of them even close to the presets?

I hope this make sense?

Please don't respond saying use EAC!

No, but you can use this lame_enc.dll, which will automatically (and only) encode in --alt-preset standard.

Other versions (extreme and fast versions) are available at Rarewares.

Just use ... ummm... CDex!!

Or ... ummm ... EAC!

Ho ho..........yawn but please stick to the question!

Thanks dev0 for your reply.

If the user insists upon only using AudioGrabber and will not do what is easy (using another ripper that will do exactly what is needed) then I only see a few other options versus using the lame_enc.dll that only encodes with APS.

That is to only rip to .wav and then use a fine frontend such as ALL2LAME or RazorLame, or LameDrop and/or LamedropXPd, and last the good-ole-fashioned slow as hell to make hand-made batch files.

With Lame 3.96, using V2 and joint stereo will be equivalent to preset standard.

Thanks!

Does it matter what method is used?

If you pick the wrong one, yes, but you don't need to define one.

Not with 3.95 and upper.


I do not really understand what does this mean.

With 3.96 V2 JS, the "old" method is equivalent to --alt-preset standard and the "new" and "MTRH" methods are equivalent to --alt-preset fast standard

If by "method" you meant vbr-new or vbr-old, then see phwip's answer.