Hi,
we are launching a music site that has artists uploading their music directly to our server. We plan to use LAME to encode to mp3 automatically so we are determining the workflow.

Assuming we do not know the format or resolution of the audio files, do we automatically re-encode to our target bitrate, or should we look for a method to determine if the mp3 is encoded at the correct resolution? If the later is the answer, how would we do that?

the target bitrate for streaming we were thinking of is around 160kbs, ABR V4?? thank you all for any input here.

thank you! rg