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Absolute best quality MP3 settings?

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sunfire7:
I think you are confusing ALAC and AAC.  The command line you posted is for qtaacenc, an encoder using Quicktime's AAC encoder.

ALAC = Lossless
AAC = Lossy

Maybe you are falling in a placebo effect, to avoid this do doble blind test.  Is your source a lossless file? if not, then is pointless to transcode it if you want maximun quality.

windrockwater:
Thanks for the tips.  I have a entirely FLAC lossless MC library. I am experimenting with different ways to get very high quality playlists onto my Ipod.  Starting from the best quality possible (transcode from FLAC to ALAC???) and then working my way done to find a sweet spot.

I really do notice the differences typically between uncompressed files and compressed. So i am trying to figure out the best ways to get playlists on my ipod ranging from lossless to 'nearly' lossless.

Doesn't using the below encoder setting essentially start me off with Lossless playback on my iPod (FLAC ---> ALAC using qaac)??
-A -s %IN -o %OUT

Would this be the next step down from lossless (using mp3 encoder)?
-V 0 --vbr-new ?
or
-b 320 ?

Any suggestions? Thanks, this is kinda complex for a newb....For now I am leaning heavily on quality and am not worrying about file size...

sunfire7:
ok I think now I understand you, you already tried alac and the command line you posted was the next below thing you are trying.


--- Quote from: windrockwater on November 05, 2011, 10:35:57 am ---Would this be the next step down from lossless (using mp3 encoder)?
-V 0 --vbr-new ?
or
-b 320 ?

--- End quote ---
Next step is 320 cbr, but the difference in quality from v0 is very very little


--- Quote from: windrockwater on November 05, 2011, 10:35:57 am ---Any suggestions? Thanks, this is kinda complex for a newb....For now I am leaning heavily on quality and am not worrying about file size...

--- End quote ---

If this is the case then stay with ALAC  :)

glynor:
If you are still trying to do ALAC... I don't know the details, but it shouldn't be very hard to get the external encoder set up to transcode to ALAC.

Look for posts from AlexB.  I know he's posted detailed instructions before.

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