converting to Lame is quite lame!!

[reanime]

Spoon,

I gotta tell you, I'm rather dissappointed in the included MP3 (lame) codec that I purchased with dMC and powerpack. I have set it at the highest settings and am getting noticeable distortion or clipping with certain notes on every song. I'm about to embark on a huge conversion project and this is unacceptable. I am having to using your wonderful 'convert to AIFF' codec, then network the file over to my Mac and convert the AIFF to mp3 using iTunes 4.0.1, the best sounding MP3 codec I've heard to date in terms of exact duplication...(ACELP?) I don't know whats up here, but its disheartening after purchasing your app mainly for Lame and finally settling on a codec I thought I could trust. I'm sure Lame can be good, but whatever I have in this package is not! Any chance of my setting it up wrong? I really doubt it cause the dMC's conversion to AIFF is flawless and no distortion. I'm sorry to say I won't dare use this to archive my musical rarities collection unless you have a quick solution. And I hate to diss such an excellent overall versatile app, but I feel you should know about this cause I'm going back to iTunes despite the hassle of cross-platforming. Now if you could just tell us what a more confidential complaints dept email address is, I wouldn't have to make my complaints so public.
thanks

[Spoons]

it's quite ok to post it here. Spoon has gone away for 2 weeks.

i haven't had much experience with lame at all. but i do remember Spoon saying some lame setting don't work well. does the distortion or clipping occur with other lame pre sets?

[Unregistered]

it's quite ok to post it here. Spoon has gone away for 2 weeks.

i haven't had much experience with lame at all. but i do remember Spoon saying some lame setting don't work well. does the distortion or clipping occur with other lame pre sets?

Well, I don't know if its 'preset', but mine is set at 48kHz, 320 kbps converting a WMA file as well as AIFF files (using Lame 3.92). So in an effort to continue using dMC, I d/l'd the MP3enc CLI codec, thinking it might be a better codec for universal archiving and did just what the directions told me to do, that is, to locate the codec right before hitting the 'convert' button and it couldn't finish the job due to:


Unable to run encoder 'C:\Mp3Enc31.exe'
despite reinstalls it still won't encode.

Any rate, back to iTunes, thanks anyway

[Spoon]

If the audio source is 44KHz (ie from an audio CD) then use that rather than 48KHz. Also try using the preset 'alt preset extreme' it is one of the better ones. One last thing to check is under the 'DSP Effects' button there are no DSP effects in the left hand column.