Good settings for ripping audiobooks to MP3

[bollemanneke]

Hi!

I want to rip some audiobooks to MP3 format from my cds. But my question is: What are good settings for ripping audiobooks?
I know that you can rip them in lower quality than the quality you use when ripping music, because the voice only doesn't need high quality rips. But which settings are good? CBR audio, VBR audio, 8 KBPS, 16, 32, 48, 64, 12..., mono or stereo?
I don't want very good quality, as long as the voice is not muffled, due to low quality. I just wanna know the minimum settings for having decent quality.

Bollemanneke

[poisondeathray]

That's hard to answer , because it depends on the source quality. If you have a great source, you could concievably use a lower bitrate and vice-versa

Why don't you do some short tests, varying the bitrate to see what is "acceptable" to you?

[Slogra]

Personally i encode audiobooks in mono VBR. I use lame at -V8 (about 50-55kbps). The quality is still acceptable for me.

[bollemanneke]

Thank you very much for your advice, mate.
I did some tests.
The audiobooks I'm ripping are the English Harry Potter books, read by Jim Dale.
I decided to use CBR, mono, 32 kbps. Good quality but very little file sizes. Ideal for torrents: one doesn't have to download big files but has perfect quality.

[mpucoder]

Making copyrighted material available on torrent is illegal unless you have explicit permission from the copyright holder.

[bollemanneke]

Boring... How many people are making torrents without permission and without getting trouble?

[Inspector.Gadget]

bollemanneke, you should read the forum rules. Number one, whatever your philosophical stance on copyright, it's stupid to pretend that "not getting caught" = "not doing anything wrong". Number two, Doom9 forums' rules make no reference to the statutory law: they're freestanding contractual provisions. Violate them at your own risk.

[Wilbert]

Like, mpucoder said. See rule 6. Closed thread.