LAME woes

[Michael Zacherl.]

Hey T H-B, 

     no worries! 

For years I kept postponing the use of LAME although Eric (Schörghofer) uses that for a quite long time with better than good results.

The recent mentioning of LAME here on this list reminded me on it and Eric's move from his old and trusted PoBo to a current MBP (where he had to do the same thing) gave me a go.
Admittedly I'm not sure why AIFF/24 is no issue for him.

I/we also did some reading and listening and I/we share your POV about LAME's quality, hence my wish to entirely switch to it.
Up to now I found it more reliable when it comes to the definition of our sounds.

That  24bit AIFF can't be read is disappointing but not a flaw. 
IMHO LAME functions as designed.
I'd really welcome the chance of compiling a more versatile Mac version and also "give it back to the community" but in fact that's too much overhead for me in terms of achieving the original goal.

When Eric's back from his vacation I'll talk to him how he approaches the entire MP3/LAME thing.

so short,  m.


On May 26, 2010, at 20:19 , Tony Hardie-Bick wrote:

> Hey MZ,
> 
>> 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 ... 
> 
> Although I think lame is seriously good software, this is based mainly on what 
> my ears tell me, and the fact it can be integrated into a script, on any 
> platform, rather than its ability to reliably read all formats!
> 
> Ooops!
> 
> Tony (HB)





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