Add -q 0 (Very High quality) to the encoding of lame

[dbp]

is it possible to add -q 0 ?

currently it's only:



which are equivalent I believe to:
-h Same as -q 2. Recommended. (High Quality, Slow)
-f Same as -q 7. Fast, ok quality (Fast)

not sure about normal..

would be good to have -q 0 as well, cheers.

on the other note, would be good to see the actual switches which dbPowerAmp uses when converting to MP3 (Lame) and maybe ability to adjust them as well?

[Spoon]

Re: Add -q 0 (Very High quality) to the encoding of lame

We have the CLI Encoder if you wish to manually tweak Lame

[dbp]

Re: Add -q 0 (Very High quality) to the encoding of lame

We have the CLI Encoder if you wish to manually tweak Lame

just tried this method (with bundled lame.exe from dbPowerAmp) - it works, but missing few things:

1) proper progress on the encoding process (shows 100% and still doing smth)

2) encoding process is 2x times slower than using built-in lame encoder

adding the suggested option will give you one more happy user :D

[Jeff Flowerday]

Re: Add -q 0 (Very High quality) to the encoding of lame

I have allot of power, I would like the ability to do -q 0 as well through the gui.

[DarkZod]

Re: Add -q 0 (Very High quality) to the encoding of lame

I would love that setting as well!

[Jeff Flowerday]

Re: Add -q 0 (Very High quality) to the encoding of lame

-v0+ is now an option with 3.99.3, another new feature that would be nice.

[twit]

Re: Add -q 0 (Very High quality) to the encoding of lame

-v0+ is now an option with 3.99.3, another new feature that would be nice.

I believe -V0+ is only an option with 3.99.3x, which is completely separate LAME code by a developer not on the LAME development team per http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...3&*entry778153. In other words, if you used 3.99.3 and tried to use -v0+, the command would not execute.

I found the developer's summary of his ABX results between the -v0+ using 3.99.3x and -v0 3.99.3 so incoherent that I question the robustness of 3.99.3x and his conclusion that 3.99.3x and -v0+ is better than using the -v0 with 3.99.3. That doesn't mean he's done bad work other than being incoherent, but I welcome a much more articulate description of actual ABX results.

But a way within DMC to either use the default LAME.exe with the existing settings, with an option to specify a custom LAME.exe location and enter an command line to pass to that custom encoder would be nice. I realize we can use any encoder with CLI but I'd like to be able to use a custom LAME and still benefit from the excellent user friendliness of DMC's GUI.

[ggunnell]

Re: Add -q 0 (Very High quality) to the encoding of lame

I agree that typing a command line into a dialog box would be ideal.

If not that, in addition to the numerical value of the -q switch being selectable from a drop-down dialog, I'd like to see the -y switch added as an option, which limits high frequencies to 16.7 kHz for -v2 through -v0, thus allowing a higher overall bit rate combined with a high end filter.