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Old 24th April 2015, 20:02   #38  |  Link
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Originally Posted by Loomes View Post
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eac3to "myTrack.ac3" "myTrack.wav" -normalize qaac64 "myTrack.wav" --ignorelength --no-delay --tvbr 73 --quality 2
I'd be suspecting the --quality setting only applies to CBR or maybe ABR encoding, but I couldn't find any definitive info, however VBR already has a quality setting......

For LAME MP3 the -q option effects encoding speed a fair bit. The range is 0 to 5, with zero being the best. It uses a much slower algorithm than the default -q3, hence the slower encoding but you should in theory get better quality for a specific bitrate. Most encoder GUI's seem to stick to -q2 for LAME by default. Higher quality encoding is very slow. Lame's VBR presets set their own quality too, but maybe you can over-ride that. I suspect QAAC's quality option may work in a similar fashion. Could some encoding speed tests be in order?
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