Le 29/03/2013 08:27, Leigh Dyer a écrit :
LAME isn't just the best thing in the Linux audio world, it's about the
best MP3 encoder out there, full-stop; there's no way you're going to
get a better-sounding MP3. Even if you can hear differences, it's
incredibly unlikely that anyone else, who doesn't have your familiarity
with the source material, is going to be able to hear any.
In fact, I'd honestly be surprised if you really are hearing a
difference, or hearing the differences you think you're hearing. Doing a
proper ABX test, using a tool like Squishyball, could be very
instructive here -- you might find that you have a lot more trouble
picking the difference between the MP3 and the WAV than you think you
would.
If you do want to do an ABX test, use LAME to decode the MP3 back to
WAV, and then supply that WAV to Squishyball, along with the original
WAV from before you encoded it:
lame --decode foo.mp3 foo.wav
The MP3 format adds a delay to the start of files during the encoding
process, and using LAME to decode it in this way will eliminate that
delay on decoding (assuming the original file was encoded with LAME,
too). If you don't eliminate that delay, then the results of the test
would be invalid, since you might end up noticing the delay, rather than
any real differences between the files.
In fact, I'd recommend this to anyone who's never done it before --
modern encoders are remarkable things, and there's no better way of
demonstrating this than with an ABX test.
Thanks
Leigh
Hello,
I have not followed completely this thread, but i wonder if the question
should be "what is the best MP3 decoder" instead of "encoder".
I almost always used lame (or liblame) as an encoder, but with the same
mp3 file encoded by lame, i could actually _hear_ a diffenrence among
several mp3 decoders. AFAIR, in the early 2k years, mpg123 was far
better than mpg321, if i remember well. I hope my memory doesn't fail..
cheers,
- Ben
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