I use Lame as well, from WAV. WAV is rendered as the highest quality anything it's being created from (24/16).

I sometimes like the compression artifacts at 192, but 320 would be the minimum you should submit a demo I'm sure.

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Originally posted by Lith I sometimes like the compression artifacts at 192, but 320 would be the minimum you should submit a demo I'm sure.

320kbps is the industry standard for releases, though for DJing it's said that anything 192+ will sound decent.
Nearly all labels will ask for either 320kbps or 16/24 bit wav.

Except studies show people tend to prefer mp3s . Studies done over a few times on many size systems. Personally it think it adds a character that the young ins have grown accustomed to.v

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Originally posted by clay if your plan is to send out mp3 i would rather render my tracks in 16bit 44,1kHz instead of 24bit 96kHz because some mp3-decoders fuck up the bit depth transition especially, from 24 to 16, as well as the sample rate. my last release on a label was completely destroyed due to me sending the label a 24bit wav; just listen here: fucked up decoding: http://www.play.fm/shop/track/id/6764216 correct version (re-released by myself): http://www.junodownload.com/product...2-02/?trackid=4 this has happened with many artists i know when supplying 24bit version wavs to labels. just dont do it. industri standard is not 320kbps mp3. its 16bit 44,1kHz wav. no dj should use any less. 192kbps sounds terrible, 320 works on iphone and docking stations, but a proper stereo or even worse on a PA club system.

wtf, who would buy that distorted version?

I send in all my work 24bit, dont think i've ever had problems outside of not that good mastering done hehe.

I can't understand why any DJ would use anything less than wav.

On large systems, even 192 mp3's can sound really bad and although the difference between 320 and wav will go unnoticed by most people, storage space and bandwidth have become so abundant that there's just no need to use mp3's anymore.

My phone's built in memory (before I start adding HDMC cards) let's me store 53 full CD spec albums. That's 60 hours, or 2.5 days of continuous audio.

If Dj's get real, and understand they don't need a 50,000 song library to play a 2 hour set of niche music (it's not like they're mobile wedding DJ's and even then, they all play the same 200 songs anyway).

wav or flac really should be the only standard these days.

Thats nutting, you know what I just figured out, the only the best and maximum quality for ripping a wav to mp3 is buy purchasing both files at beatport. They know best bro.

Much better than thunder cult

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Originally posted by PaULiN0 Thats nutting, you know what I just figured out, the only the best and maximum quality for ripping a wav to mp3 is buy purchasing both files at beatport. They know best bro. Much better than thunder cult