Don't mention the war. BASIL!
Optometrists appointment tommorrow. Yay. I seem to be having trouble seeing in the distance, not as well as I used to be able to, at least, it bugs me. It would be nice to get glasses to fix that. Maybe nothings wrong, and I just had some sort of uber vision before, and I don't need glasses.
I am trying to write a batch script that will reencode a directory of mp3s to a specified bitrate. I got it mostly working today, except the id3 tag is obliterated in the reencode, so I need to decide if that is acceptable, or figure out a good way to transfer over the id3 tag. I might end up writing my own program, instead of a batch file, that wouldn't be so bad, but I will only do if it I need to.
Anyways, the moral of the encoding story, is that I reencoded this album at 192, and in some cases, songs are actually LARGER than the higher quality VBR (--r3mix) version. Sometimes the VBR version is larger, but only by a few 100k, at the most. Overall, the album encoded with VBR is smaller than the album encoded with a constant 192. If you are encoding your mp3s at 192 anyways, then using --r3mix VBR might be a better alternative.
I do need to test other albums though, and other bitrates. I used lame 3.96, btw, which you should use too.
I am trying to write a batch script that will reencode a directory of mp3s to a specified bitrate. I got it mostly working today, except the id3 tag is obliterated in the reencode, so I need to decide if that is acceptable, or figure out a good way to transfer over the id3 tag. I might end up writing my own program, instead of a batch file, that wouldn't be so bad, but I will only do if it I need to.
Anyways, the moral of the encoding story, is that I reencoded this album at 192, and in some cases, songs are actually LARGER than the higher quality VBR (--r3mix) version. Sometimes the VBR version is larger, but only by a few 100k, at the most. Overall, the album encoded with VBR is smaller than the album encoded with a constant 192. If you are encoding your mp3s at 192 anyways, then using --r3mix VBR might be a better alternative.
I do need to test other albums though, and other bitrates. I used lame 3.96, btw, which you should use too.
