[plug] MP3

[bk]

On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 12:28:20PM +0800, Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, McMeikan, Andrew wrote:
> > Well I use cdparanoia and bladeenc to rip and encode and either x11amp or
> > mpg123 to play.
> > I am not fanatical about sound quality, but it seems to do a good job.
> I thought sound quality was meant to be the one reason for using
> bladeenc?? Wasn't it meant to be the best quality MP3ifier out there, at

methinks bladeenc is good for high bit rate (>192) while lame is good for
relatively lower quality (~128).
> least at some stage? Presumably that means it is also very slow, so if
> you're not fanatical about sound quality, you might be able to do better.

You could recompile it with pentium optimizations. It helps by 20-30%

-David (bk at bofh.ns.ca).