Re: Podcast

["Paul Jacobson" thebrunswicktwitcher]

On 20/12/2007, at 10:52 PM, grant finlay wrote:

> Like Danny said, 192kb (cbr) is a good compromise and after all
> you've got to remember that a lot of us are still on dial up. ( I'm
> going BB next year!)


Is there any reason for preferring  CBR to VBR?  VBR is supposed to  
"usually produce higher quality mp3s" than ABR/CBR according to  
comments on hydrogenaudio.

For those who using LAME - which is one of the better mp3 encoders -  
there is a useful discussion of recommended settings here:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=28124

  Thanks for the heads up re encoding from higher than 16bit/44.1khz  
masters.  There is an interesting thread at KVR on 16bit/24bit -> mp3  
conversion with some user generated testing:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=195319


cheers
Paul