LAME woes

[Joost Schuttelaar]

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Joost Schuttelaar
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On May 26, 2010, at 14:04 , Michael Zacherl. wrote:

> here's more info on libsndfile:
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> http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
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> If I was into software development and had a proper compiler running there would be a theoretical chance to get LAME to encode 24bit AIFF ... but I'm not. Alas.
> 
> I also thought of an option to change the iTunes script to automatically convert any AIFF into a temporarily WAV in order to encode it.
> If I find a SoX-version for Mac OS X ... 
> All in all not my idea of simplifying things.
> 
> On May 26, 2010, at 13:13 , Michael Zacherl. wrote:
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>> I found this thread, proposing a command setting (-r -x --bitdepth 24) which should work - but it doesn't - at least not on Mac OS X.
>> 
>> http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t37872.html
>> 
>> Another post in this thread mentions LAME versions which are linked against libsndfile which should be able to handle additional file formats.
>> Then again I only found versions for Windows which are able to encode FLAC and ogg - no AIFF.
>> I'm not sure if I want to switch my workflow to WAV - my idea is to improve quality and simplify things.
>> 
>> Any idea how to approach/solve this?
>> 
>> Thanks, Michael.
>> 
>> PS: Funnily enough I noticed that the preset setting "insane" sets the quality level (-q) to "3" and not to "0" as the name would suggest. :-)
>> 
>> On May 26, 2010, at 03:39 , Michael Zacherl. wrote:
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>>> 
>>> I think I know what's going on: LAME doesn't support 24bit AIF ... 24bit WAV is ok.
>>> well ... need sleep - further testing tomorrow.
>>> m.
>>> 
>>> On May 26, 2010, at 02:44 , Michael Zacherl. wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I think I could narrow it down ... it's not entirely consistent though:
>>>> Earlier I suspected something like the byte order - at least the sound reminded me on that type of error.
>>>> I did some test files and the one not working has 24 bit data.
>>>> Well ... LAME can't handle 24bit files?
>>>> iTunes does.
>>>> Admittedly the built-in help didn't enlighten me.
>>>> 
>>>> (what's up with the different settings, I dunno)
>>>> 
>>>> Michael.
>>>> 
>>>> On May 25, 2010, at 21:30 , Tony Hardie-Bick wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Aaarggh,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I seriously would like to know what the issue is, but have no idea.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have had zero problems with lame - apart from VBR load probs on small non-FP 
>>>>> ARM players, years ago. It all works just great, all files play back perfectly, 
>>>>> everywhere, and to an exceptionally high audio quality.
>>>>> 
>>>>> But I always run from a command line, on Linux, when creating mp3s.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any further info much appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tony (HB)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Michael Zacherl. wrote:
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I installed iTunes-LAME on my MBP and it's not working properly:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-itunes-lame/downloads/list
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The script itself works, its nicely integrated with iTunes 9.
>>>>>> I also can run the encoder within the shell (Terminal).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In both cases the generated MP3 is faulty.
>>>>>> It's shorter and very noisy ... as if white noise was superimposed.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I know the sound when data bytes were shuffled so I used the -x option but this didn't change anything.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Funnily enough it was intermittend first - the proposed default setting is -h -b 160 (-h is the same as -q 2).
>>>>>> So I set it to -b 320 and it worked. 
>>>>>> Then I started to experiment with the quality setting (-q) and regardless to what value I set it, it starts going mad.
>>>>>> Meanwhile its not intermitted anymore ... even the plain -b 320 setting doesn't work - also within the shell (commandline).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I deleted the .plist file (prefs) and started over - to no avail.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any clue what's going on?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> thanks,  Michael. 
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