Hi All,

I am new to this forum, but have been experimenting for quite a while with different Lame settings and EAC in general.

This time i need some help in identifying an encoder from a classical music mp3 I have.

I have used Encspot to no avail,

I tried to post images of the windows I got from Encspot as well as a spectral view of the file using EAC wave editor after decoding the file using lame, but still have to figure out how. (please view them here http://jm_m_1.tripod.com thanks)

Can send by mail however

All Suggestions are appreciated

Tanks to all

what is the player called?

if its a really old player then it might be FhG oldenc??????????????

These are the old encoder that i know:

l3enc
TOMPG
m3e
FhGACM Pro


100% long blocks, strong cut at 16 kHz even at 320 kbps
Xing TOMPG or x3enc

100% long blocks, no symptoms of 16 kHz strong cut, only pure stereo
mp3enc.ocx

If intensity stereo + short blocks
FhG

Thanks for your reply, please view the images on the following link

http://jm_m_1.tripod.com

and see what you think

Thanks

It is not much easy from those images to tell what encoder was used.

What is clear from the images is several things:

No filter is applied. This would almost eliminate XING, but it still could be the new encoder.

No short blocks. This eliminates any good encoder (I doubt the file doesn't need short blocks).

Mid/side stereo, with exclusive use of joint stereo. This eliminates encoders like "bladeenc" or others that don't use mid/side,
but good encoders would still have "ss" frames.

In the end, it looks like an ISO encoder, or some ill-commandline like : lame -t -k -b 128 -m f -allshort ( but still it would use scalefactor, which that one doesn't use)


I have no real clue...


Edit: Bah... Ignore all this... it is all supositions. (The bit reservoir is quite high, and ISO encoders are not well tuned for that IIRC)

Forced joint-stereo, only long blocks and no lowpass?
Well, it might be QDesign...
Anyway I think that this should sound quite bad.