Murderer909
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Does anybody know of a 'LAME' MP3 Encoder that has been compiled for OS X?
MP3 Encoder?
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sheepguy42
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I think Audion might have that, I know it has at least 2 mp3 encoding methods to choose from.
Murderer909
Violent Member
LAME is a WAY to encode MP3s. Look it up.
I've been looking into this for a while, so I have few data points for you:
LAME is an open source mp3 encoder that by many tests and standards out-performs most other encoders for sound quality (including the Fraunhofer and SoundJam encoders) Of course sound quality is a subjective metric by definition, but I think it sounds better...
(take a look at http://www.r3mix.net/ for more info)
Point being, if you want archival quality mp3s of your CD collection LAME is pretty much the way to go right now.
Audion provides the LAME encoder as an option, but I have found it to be both slow (~0.3x ripping) and unstable.
The command line LAME distribution compiles with no hoops to jump through and runs very well... unfortunately it is also very slow, and it does not integrate with CDDB (though there are other open source projects out there that "wrap" LAME and provide that facility).
An OSX version of N2MP3 has been pending for some time, but since I haven't seen it and they didn't want me as a beta tester, I won't say much about it except that it may or may not come out sometime and previous versions have included the LAME encoder.
I'm currently looking at Altivec optimization for the LAME encoder, but my C is rusty and my vector math is downright sad, so it's an uphill battle. Anyone have any good places to look? I've been to apple's altivec pages and they're a great resource... anything else?
So, Murderer909, there are no really good options out there, but if you really want LAME, I think the best bet is to go to
http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/ and D/L the source. Once it's uncompressed, all you need to is (in a terminal) cd into the source directory, and type:
./configure
make
sudo make install
provided you have the dev tools installed. This will give you LAME on the command line. Just keep in mind how friggin slow it is.
-alex.
LAME is an open source mp3 encoder that by many tests and standards out-performs most other encoders for sound quality (including the Fraunhofer and SoundJam encoders) Of course sound quality is a subjective metric by definition, but I think it sounds better...
(take a look at http://www.r3mix.net/ for more info)
Point being, if you want archival quality mp3s of your CD collection LAME is pretty much the way to go right now.
Audion provides the LAME encoder as an option, but I have found it to be both slow (~0.3x ripping) and unstable.
The command line LAME distribution compiles with no hoops to jump through and runs very well... unfortunately it is also very slow, and it does not integrate with CDDB (though there are other open source projects out there that "wrap" LAME and provide that facility).
An OSX version of N2MP3 has been pending for some time, but since I haven't seen it and they didn't want me as a beta tester, I won't say much about it except that it may or may not come out sometime and previous versions have included the LAME encoder.
I'm currently looking at Altivec optimization for the LAME encoder, but my C is rusty and my vector math is downright sad, so it's an uphill battle. Anyone have any good places to look? I've been to apple's altivec pages and they're a great resource... anything else?
So, Murderer909, there are no really good options out there, but if you really want LAME, I think the best bet is to go to
http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/ and D/L the source. Once it's uncompressed, all you need to is (in a terminal) cd into the source directory, and type:
./configure
make
sudo make install
provided you have the dev tools installed. This will give you LAME on the command line. Just keep in mind how friggin slow it is.
-alex.