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Originally posted by Nomedor
I belived that using vbr instead of abr would be better even at these bitrates!
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Are you sure that VBR is worst than ABR??????
See this thread:
Suggest ~160kbps VBR setting.
There's already been a discussion about why Lame ABR sounds better than VBR at lower bitrates (below 160kbps).
If Lame was properly tuned, then yes, VBR would always sound better than ABR. Unfortunately, just adding some switches to the commandline isn't going to tune the program's code. So if you want a bitrate lower than what --alt-preset-standard -Y gives you, then you should use the --alt-preset ABR commands, preferably without any additional switches.