I have a bunch of mp3s that were rendered with Acid Pro 5. My question is that I wanted the mp3s to be lame encoded. Should I burn all the mp3s to CD, then rip to wav then to encode to mp3 using lame? Do you use quality when you do something like that?


Or should I render from Acid to WAV then use some type of program to convert the .wav files to encoded lame mp3s?


Or is this a dumb idea? Should I just leave the rendered acid files as 192kbps mp3? Im not sure what kind of encoding acid uses.... I heard sometimes the id3 info can get messed up or something.



Thanks.

i guess lame 3.90.3 APS is the standard? im trying to make this a scene release so thats why im trying to understand this.

thanks in advance

What you are trying to do is transcode. You cannot make it better. And if you re-encode with LAME it will just throw away more "stuff" degrading the sound slightly more. If you do not have the original CD's, leave it alone. You will save lots of time and effort.

Ok thanks man.