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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: ThatAdamGuy on October 22, 2005, 03:20:17 pm

Title: Possible to extend MP3 conversions?
Post by: ThatAdamGuy on October 22, 2005, 03:20:17 pm

Hi there,

I'm a former MC10 user and was checking out MC11... but was bummed that the MP3 conversion options don't appear to be as robust as I'd like 'em.

Specifically, I was hoping to convert some of my high bitrate tracks to 64kbps mono MP3 tracks just for reference on a CD, but couldn't find any way to do this with MC11.

Are there any plugins that'd enable this or any other tweaks that I didn't figure out?

Thanks in advance for any insight :)

Title: Re: Possible to extend MP3 conversions?
Post by: Alex B on October 22, 2005, 04:39:01 pm

You can use all LAME command line switches. Just select the "Custom" option and write the command line.

As you can see in the "Command Line" dialog box the predefined 64 kbps CBR option uses this string: "--preset cbr 64".

Just adding "-m m" switches LAME to mono encoding: --preset cbr 64 -m m

E.g. these ABR settings might give a bit better quality:
--preset 64 -m m   or
--preset 64 -m m --resample 32 --lowpass 15

The LAME documentation is available here: http://lame.sourceforge.net/doc/html/index.html

Title: Re: Possible to extend MP3 conversions?
Post by: ThatAdamGuy on October 22, 2005, 07:44:18 pm

Ah, thanks!  Now if only there were a way to add our custom preset to the menu so we wouldn't have to manually specify it each time :)