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poopity poop
3rd May 2002, 02:07
Why does besweet always have to find the maximum gain?
What does besweet.exe do...all the other .exe's do the encoding/transcoding?
What do I have to do to add .aac as a codec to my entire system like mp3 is? I want winamp, windows media player, whatever, I want them all to be able to take that information and vibrate my speakers

Also a request:
I would love to have besweet and all its goodies integrated into my shell so I can jsut right click and have options. Set up certain options the way I like and save them with a name and be able to right click, go to a menu and select from "make vbr mp3" here is a link to my site that shows a picture I made just to show what it could look like. http://web.syr.edu/~tjmyers/possible_besweet_menu.jpg
Tell me if access is forbidden so I can telnet in permissions to the server.
Anyway I remember a program called right-click-mp3. It was great...you jsut right clicked and went to the options and opened up a dospromt encoding window like besweet and out poped an mp3..is was easy and fast.
Mayeb not even besweet, just LAME mp3. I just would like something that I coudl set up options manually and be able to one click use them

I have more just can't think of them right now
DSPguru
3rd May 2002, 06:26
finding maximum gain is needed in order to encode the mp3/ogg/whatever as a FULL-SCALE signal.
each soundcard has its accuracy (16bit, for instance), if the signal isn't normalized (maximum gain), the soundcard won't use all it's accuracy to reproduce the signal. (typicaly will only use 14/13bits).

in order to playback AAC, i would suggest to use an aac plugin for winamp. as for wmp playbacking, you might wanna try Nic's AAC dsf.

as for your request,
there's a tool by Bonze, called EasyBeSweet (http://www.rip-it.de).
that's exactly what it does :).
poopity poop
3rd May 2002, 07:49
oh (Be)sweet! Thansk a lot. Does it matter if I normalize my wav's before hand. I usually normalize them using average RMS value in sound forge. IF its already normalized do I need to find the maximum gain before encoding?
DSPguru
3rd May 2002, 07:55
Originally posted by poopity poop
oh (Be)sweet! Thansk a lot. Does it matter if I normalize my wav's before hand. I usually normalize them using average RMS value in sound forge. IF its already normalized do I need to find the maximum gain before encoding? no need to normalize before using BeSweet.
if the signal is already normalized, Seeking for maximum gain is pointless :).