Re: recommend mp3 encoder

[Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.net>]

Dumb question - could anyone give me an "idiots walk-through" of
installing LAME? It's probably somewhere simple, but all the stuff about
"LAME won't even compile by itself" on the web page put me off. And of
course there's no package for it...

Thanks very much in advance,
Stuart.

Sean Johnson wrote:
> 
> I used to compress @ 224 or 256 kbps with bladeenc, but now that I've
> been using lame instead, I encode at 128 kbps and end up with files that
> are quite a bit smaller and sound just as good. Lame also allows for
> variable rate encoding which for many songs lets me drop the bitrate
> down to 112 kbps and still maintain the same audio quality.
> 
> Sean
> 
> Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > IMHO, encoding with more than 128 kbps makes sense. I use bladeenc, which
> > offers much better sound quality at 160 or 256 kbps. At 128, I can hear the
> > blips clearly (maybe because of BladeEnc).