OK, please allow me to start by saying that if I have just not searched well, or am asking a question that is answered somewhere else, I apologize, but I haven't been able to get find this, to my great frustration.

I am trying to use EAC and LAME 3.6.91 to get some voice recordings down to a really small size. Since it isnt music, I can get away with quite a bit of loss, but I dont want it to have dreaded low br "sizzle"...you know, the way a wma file sounds.

It seems the focus on these boards is more the higher end sounds, which I can totally relate to, but for this application, I need small filesize.

ANY simple (copy paste, for instance) info that would go into EAC, or even a command line to use at the command prompt woul be GREATLY appreciated. I just want to convert about 50 personal development CDs into the smallest number of CDs possible !

Thanks in advance !

there is a -preset voice setting you can use. It may not be small enough for you.

Also, there are periodic threads about "voice" or "speech" settings. Run a search on the mp3 forums for those terms and it should bring up those threads.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....19218&hl=speech

-V9 -m m --resample 22 --lowpass 11 --lowpass-width 2 -B80

That works out between 25-30kbs for mono, or use V8 for about 30-40kbs.

Super friggin cool!



You guys rock!

I can now fit almost twice as much in any given space - thanks a million!

Good to hear : ) What settings did you settle on?

The first ones that seemed to work well were

"C:\EAC\Lame enc Files\lame iteself\lame.exe" -V9 -m m --resample 22 --lowpass 11 --lowpass-width 2 -B80

So I went with those.

and as you might figure from the line above, I ended up going with making a shortcut to the lame.exe file, and adding the switches to the "target" area of the shortcut properties.

I then drag and drop each WAV file onto the shorcut (I had the WAVs left over from the first attempt at ripping, so I dont have to rip them off the CD again.) and it creates the mp3 in the same folder as the source WAV. This method seems to be a bit fussy as far as dropping files onto it...I can only seem to drop one file at a time, or the mp3 goes I have no idea where (I am guessing I will stumble across a huge pile of them at some point, but I am focusing on just getting these WAVs compressed right now, and I will look for the errant MP3s later.)

The reason I went this way is that I couldnt seem to get the switches to work inside of EAC. The drag/drop one at a time method is more of an effort initially, but it's cool, cause I will only have to rip them all like this once........um unless I get more CDs !!!

Thanks again ! you rock !

If you want to stay with your drag&drop, you could also try Speek's all2lame-frontend.
Put your lame.exe in the directory (or refer to it at the all2lame-'Locations'-page) and copy & paste your lame-command-line to the 'Switches'-field.
After dropping all your files press 'Encode' ....that's all.

BTW just tried lamedropXPd after a long time, just to give another alternative, but it does not allow resampling or other special settings/commands - I guess it has been done to avoid crap, but at least, if you want to and know what to do, it's unneccessarily limited ..or is there some secret ini-magic? whatever - cheers

-maybe, but more likely lame gets called like this,
C:\EAC\Lame enc Files\lame iteself\lame.exe" -V9 -m m --resample 22 --lowpass 11 --lowpass-width 2 -B80 1st.wav 2nd.wav 3rd.wav 4th.wav (all in one command)

and either makes an mp3 out 1st.wav called second wav, or calls an error.
You could make a bat file like this:

then if dropped the files on it, it should be okay upto how many %numbered params the .bat uses

heh, ThankYou, its nothing really - i suppose a little credit could go to the Lame devs

I notice that you mention nowhere that playback on portables is a requirement. I have reencoded some audiobooks a while ago to speex (a codec specialized on speech) and the quality at 30-40kbit was amazing - definatelly way more than mp3 could achieve. But of course speex-files will not be playable on portables.

Awesome ! thanks !


I should have mentioned it, actually, portables is a requirement, so speex is out of the running it seems.


And witha alittle notepad writing, the task becomes even easier - most of the CDs are ripped now !

thanks again !


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