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An MP3 transcoder.

This has been an essential part of my toolkit for as long as I’ve had CDs. These days I use it primarily to convert various other audio formats to MP3.

• my rip-audio-from-video.sh script uses lame.

• 2016-04-06 – 3.99.5 on Slackware 14.1 32bit
• 2016-03-26 – 3.99.5 on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

• I had been using lame for a very long time, all the way back to my first use of Slackware.

2016-04-06 – 3.99.5 ∞

Installed with slpkg:

\slpkg  -s sbo  lame

Usage ∞

CD ripping ∞

lame --r3mix

LAME v3.93.1 December 1 2002
lame-3.93.1.tar.gz
Latest as of Jun 2003

in lame 3.9.0, --r3mix is

--nspsytune    \
--vbr-mtrh     \
-V1            \
-mj            \
-h             \
-b96           \
--lowpass 19.5 \
--athtype 3    \
--ns-sfb21 2   \
-Z             \
--scale 0.98   \
-X0

• https://web.archive.org/web/20030414202207/http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/index.html

  • On the left, click “quality”

2005-08-16 or earlier:

So far, I still believe strongly in lame --r3mix

I still use mp3. I will look into ogg vorbis sometime soon.

the mp3 pro whatever it is is garbage. As far as quality goes, what it does is already handled nicely by vbr.. and it’s space saving only applies to low low quality anyway.

Lame --r3mix is completely obsolete these days, in preference for other switches which I haven’t learned. I did all my ripping years back, so I don’t particularly care to revisit this topic right now. Yes, I’ve bought CDs since then but I haven’t bothered to listen to them yet. Hrmph.