lame hf cutoff

[jherbert]

Using lame with the -v2 setting results in all frequencies beyond 16kHz being cut off. Is there a way around this?

[Spoon]

Re: lame hf cutoff

Lame is working as designed, you cannot have -v2 and above 16KHz as the codec is tuned to cut there.

[jherbert]

Re: lame hf cutoff

Which Setting could I use instead?

[Spoon]

Re: lame hf cutoff

Why is > 16 KHz important? for mp3 those dropped high frequencies (which are doubtful if you could hear or not, depending on your age) are used to make the other frequencies below have better encoding.

[jherbert]

Re: lame hf cutoff

That's what I am reading in the release notes for lame, and yes, I probably cannot tell anyway. But it would make me feel better, like using dbpoweramp for ripping makes me feel better than using the facilities provided by JRiver MediaCenter.

But I guess there is no way to do it with lame, or is there?

[Spoon]

Re: lame hf cutoff

If you use the CLI Encoder you can pass what ever commandline you wish to lame, and override lame (which IMHO is not a good idea).

[jherbert]

Re: lame hf cutoff

Thank you very much, I guess I will take your advice. I started to encode mp3 and flac using the multi encoder a while ago, so there always be the option to do it in the future, should I feel the need. Just good to know it's possible.