On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:14:51 +0100
"Stimpy" wrote:

A decent 256 or
320 rip will produce an acceptable CDR - certainly good enough for
normal
day-to-day listening

320 is known to be able to pass for real in double-blind tests.

That said, LAME does an *extremely* good job of variable bitrate
encoding, the theory being that you only use as many bits as needed to
reach 'indistinguishable' quality.

typically I find that 'normal' music (thats anything from rock to
classical for me, none of this pop crap), that LAME generates an average
of 160kbit/s for a variable bitrate track. Very few tracks average over
224.

Yes, Im a die-hard linux user ;-)

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