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Title: LAME plugin for Media Center?
Post by: hobbesateclavin on January 27, 2004, 09:20:36 pm

Is it possible to use the LAME encoder with Media Center?

Title: Re:LAME plugin for Music Center?
Post by: Uwe on January 28, 2004, 02:10:45 am

 ;D  That's funny because that was also one of my first question when starting with Media Jukebox 8.0

The answer is still the same. MC uses Lame for standard MP3. Just choose MP3 or MP3 VBR for encoding

Welcome on board,
Uwe

Title: Re:LAME plugin for Music Center?
Post by: phelt on January 28, 2004, 01:50:50 pm

If for some reason you want to use a specific version of LAME (special compile, whatever) you can use the External Encoder option in Tools > Options > Encoding. It will allow you enter command line options if you like.

Title: Re:LAME plugin for Music Center?
Post by: GHammer on January 28, 2004, 04:56:47 pm

I just replace the lame.exe in Media Center's directory with the version I want. Haven't had any bad behavior yet.

Quote from: phelt on January 28, 2004, 01:50:50 pm

If for some reason you want to use a specific version of LAME (special compile, whatever) you can use the External Encoder option in Tools > Options > Encoding. It will allow you enter command line options if you like.

Title: Re:LAME plugin for Music Center?
Post by: phelt on January 29, 2004, 05:21:38 pm

Quote from: GHammer on January 28, 2004, 04:56:47 pm

I just replace the lame.exe in Media Center's directory with the version I want. Haven't had any bad behavior yet.

Quote from: phelt on January 28, 2004, 01:50:50 pm

If for some reason you want to use a specific version of LAME (special compile, whatever) you can use the External Encoder option in Tools > Options > Encoding. It will allow you enter command line options if you like.

Understood, but I don't know offhand if MC is using the LAME presets (standard, extreme, etc) so I prefer to access it with the External method. Do you happen to know if your lame.exe gets replaced with new MC installs/updates, or gets left alone?

Title: Re:LAME plugin for Media Center?
Post by: KingSparta on January 29, 2004, 05:23:12 pm

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Understood, but I don't know offhand if MC is using the LAME presets (standard, extreme, etc)

you can change this in the custom settings

if you just change it to custom you will see this

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--alt-preset standard

you can then change it if you wish