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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery There are differences between different encoders. It's not just random stuff I've made up - every time I've read an article somewhere testing different codecs LAME has always been chosen as the best. Plus it's completely free too.

I don't disagree at all. Like I said, I've used quite a few. It's just that they really don't make too much of a difference with MP3 at anything above 192kbps. People claim to be able to tell the difference, but I just did that listening test I mentioned, and couldn't tell the difference between Lame, Blade, and wav, 320, 320 and 16*48 respectively. Mind you, I've never listened side by side like that before, and there weren't any really crisp hats in the song(which is usually the most common place to find distortion in compressed music).

And my mpeg suite stopped working just freaking now for no apparent reason, so looks like I'm switching to razor afterall. @>@

If you are really concerned about quality in compressed music, use lossless formats.

I read somewhere that Lame had a lossless way of compressing. "Mid-Side" compression? But that's not compression, that's preparation for encoding that allows more efficient encoding, AFAIK, and I was under the impression that MP3 was lossy regardless. Anyone have any info? I tried googling it, but didn't get too far. Plus I'm lazy.

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