EAC and MP3

2007-11-27 05:32:46

Call me old fashion, but EAC w/accuraterip in secure mode works awesome for me. yeah i know all the other formats are getting the big push, but I can burn an MP3 CD with around 150 songs on it and cruise on down the road....LOL what more could I ask for?...hehe Maybe one day I will quit being cheap and maybe get an Ipod so I can catch up with all the youngins.... 

And all you noobies don't forget THIS IS TRULY THE COOLEST FORUM AROUND!!!!!

If you ask it they will come.....

EAC and MP3

Reply #1 – 2007-11-27 06:02:07

I used to be stuck to Lame 3.90.3 and EAC, then I moved onto Lame 3.97 along with both Nero and iTunes AAC.  Now my library is a bit of a mutt in terms of lossy formats but I am fine with that.  I need to go back and re-encode all my lossless files to a single lossy format but I am going through the painstaking process of choosing which format and bitrate.  On one hand I have a 5G 60GB iPod so bitrate won't really be an issue with that.  On the other hand I have a SanDisk Sansa View with 16GB of storage and bitrate kind of plays a role there.  Either way I have some more research ahead of me.

Either way, I used EAC with Lame for quite a bit of time and was always happy with it.  That was until a Nero AAC file encoded at -0.4 would end up sounding the same as a Lame mp3.  The file size differences were astonishing as an album would take up about 30MB less space.  It may not sound like much but when I added up all the space, it came out to about a 10GB library size difference.

EAC and MP3

Reply #2 – 2007-11-27 06:51:11

Sounds like you got it goin on......maybe once i get my ipod i will go for the aac format, it's got a great sound to it.

EAC and MP3

Reply #3 – 2007-11-27 06:55:14

Yes. EAC and LAME --aps MP3s work for me too.

I still stick to LAME because it is easy to embed album art while transcoding from my FLAC library to MP3s using CUEProc and Nyaochi's LAME compiles.