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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: LonWar on February 18, 2004, 04:54:20 pm
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Hey all...
I have all my Library on .ape and now I need to make a copy in mp3 for my car and handheld.
I have a few questions...
I tried to convert using VBR Normal High Quality.. That size seems ok and the bit rate is good for a car. However it takes forever to convert 1 track... It took about 3 min to convert a 5min track, is that normal?
The other thing I noticed and do not know how to change is that the file location that it is going is Album Artist instead of artist.
I went into options , File location and it's set for Artist so I have no idea....
Thanks,
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On a 5 min 30 sec ape, it took 30 sec to decode to wav and 2 min to encode to VBR Normal/High for a total of 2 min 30 sec. This is on a 700 MHz PIII & W2k. Your numbers are about right...LAME surely isn't the fastest encoder around.
I tried it again with ogg @ q 8. Same results as above (yes...I am surprised...my MP3 number may be wrong...may be a minute to low...but maybe not...MC is using LAME 3.93.1 and/or is NOT using the presets -aps/-ape). When using EAC to encode after a rip, oggenc.exe is much faster than LAME.exe (3.92) & -aps.
No advice on 2nd part.
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