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Motenai Yoda
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Originally Posted by LoRd_MuldeR View Post
Nope. The LAME default is "-q3" now, which also is the default in LameXP, aka "High Quality".

The LAME CLI help seems to be a bit outdated here, but you can see the up-to-date documentation here:
http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/view...etailed.html#q
but -h still set -q 2

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Originally Posted by LoRd_MuldeR View Post
Especially note that with the "new" VBR mode, which is the default since LAME 0.98, there are only three quality "levels" anyway:
0.98 was relased years before this project began.

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Code:
-q 0 to -q 4	include all features of the other modes and additionally use the best search when applying Huffman coding.
-q 5 and -q 6	include all features of -q7, calculate and consider actual quantisation noise, and additionally enable subblock gain.
-q 7 to -q 9	This level uses a psymodel but does not calculate quantisation noise when encoding: it takes a quick guess.
For example: You can easily check with MediaInfo that any setting in the "-q0" to "-q4" range will actually result in "-q0"
MediaInfo says
Code:
Formato                                 : MPEG Audio
Dimensione                              : 4,11MiB
Durata                                  : 4min 35s
Modo bitrate generale                   : Variabile
Bitrate totale                          : 125 Kbps
Compressore                             : LAME3.99r

Audio
Formato                                 : MPEG Audio
Versione formato                        : Version 1
Profilo formato                         : Layer 3
Modo                                    : Joint stereo
Estensione modo                         : MS Stereo
Durata                                  : 4min 35s
Modalità bitrate                        : Variabile
Bitrate                                 : 128 Kbps
Canali                                  : 2 canali
Frequenza campionamento                 : 44,1 KHz
Modo compressione                       : Con perdita
Dimensione della traccia                : 4,11MiB (100%)
Compressore                             : LAME3.99r
Impostazioni compressione               : -m j -V 4 -q 3 -lowpass 17 --abr 128
so for abr, cbr, and vbr_old q is the same as ever?
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