Multi-Threaded MP3 Encoding?

[U2502]

I am wondering what people have found as the best program to take advantage of a quadcore processor for LAME mp3 encoding. I understand that a program to encode multiple files at once is the best way to use the resources.

I tried searching, but could not find this information. If some one could please point me to the correct thread it would be appreciated. Thanks so much.

[wisodev]

I am wondering what people have found as the best program to take advantage of a quadcore processor for LAME mp3 encoding. I understand that a program to encode multiple files at once is the best way to use the resources.

I tried searching, but could not find this information. If some one could please point me to the correct thread it would be appreciated. Thanks so much.

I'm using foobar2000 + lame.exe.

[Jeff Flowerday]

dbpoweramp

[BigDid]

I am wondering what people have found as the best program to take advantage of a quadcore processor for LAME mp3 encoding. I understand that a program to encode multiple files at once is the best way to use the resources...
Hi and welcome to the forum,

Unless mistaken, lame (for MP3) doesn't encode in Multithread mode(MT). So the apps using lame can MT a bunch/batch of different files not MT chunks of a single file.
Lots of audio files Ok, long movie single audio file NO.

Did

[Adub]

There is a multithreaded build of Lame in circulation but it hasn't been updated in a few years. Plus there was some reduction in quality when compared to the single threaded build. So far, the suggestions of dbpoweramp and foobar do seem to be you best bet.

Also, audio encoding is so freakin' fast anyways, it's not like it really matters.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Consider why you're using MP3, and also consider an alternative, like AAC if possible :)

~MiSfit

[MetalMusicAddict]

Or, (hehe) consider why you're using formats that aren't based on open standards. :P Vorbis (www.vorbis.com) FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net)

[Blue_MiSfit]

I was thinking more along the lines of hardware compatibility ;)

[U2502]

I basically want to encode multiple files at once. Does foobar 2000 allow for this?

[nixo]

It does so by default. One file per core, I think.

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Nikolaj

[U2502]

I ended up finding the program LameXP which is freeware that uses LAME 3.98.2 and it will encode 1 file per proc on your PC by default. You can disable multithreading if you want. We tried this on a Quadcore and a Dual Core and it encoded 4 and 2 files at a time respectively. It also lets you control all the paramaters of LAME. Looks like this one will work for me. Thank you for all your input!