Sorry if this has been asked... but I dont have found it.

I am wondering if using a preset (like extreme) with -h (or -q 2) will give more quality than using only the preset.

Also, there is a way of enconding more than a file using wildcards or something like this? I have tried *.wav with no luck

Thanks and sorry for my english

All alt-presets use -q2. In alpha builds -q3 is the same as -q2 in non-alphas.

So if I use -q 0 with a preset it will give me more quality? Or a preset ignores the manually set quality?

AFAIK, -q 0 will be imperceptibly different on the various majority of cases and may even be worse on a small minorty of cases. -q 0 isn't as well tested as -q 2, and anything that trips up --aps will likely trip up --aps -q 0.

If you're looking for higher quality than --alt-preset standard, then use --alt-preset extreme, though that is usually just overkill. Higher quality than that requires MPC.

With 99.9% of things, if you ask "Will using the presets and adding X be better than just the preset?", the answer is "No - if you could achieve better quality by doing that, it would have been built into the preset in the first place."

Use of -q0 is not even reccomended with 3.93 and it is the same as q1 in 3.93.1
Afaik it hasn't been reccomended with 3.92 or 3.91 or its equivelant 3.90.2

thanks for your replies

Not to mention the huge speed hit that -q0 adds. 50% slower on my machine.

One question, there is no other way than using razorlame (or other frontends), to enconde all the wav files in a directory from a simple command?

I have tried "lame --alt-preset standard *.wav"

But it only encodes the first wav in the directory

Thanks

no one knows?

you can use the nogap switch to encode more than one file at once.

I forgot who it is that comes up with such great commandlines for batch files, I think it was Case:

@for %%i in (*.wav) do lame --alt-preset standard "%%i"

Note: if you aren't using a batch file but just typing it in at the commandline,

for %i in (*.wav) do lame --alt-preset standard "%i"