Why presets with "lame( --scale 1 )"?

[LigH]

I've seen a few examples using BeSweet presets to create MP3, which contained the LAME option "--scale 1". And in the description of HybridGain, I can read about "3) Scaling of 0 dB when encoding MP3 Streams with Lame".

So I searched the doom9 forum for several search patterns and read a few threads, but could not yet find the thread where the reason for this (at the first glance absolutely redundant) option was explained. Could someone please lead me to this place?

[Kurtnoise]

maybe here (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=3934&hl=) ;)

[LigH]

And there a backlink to the "DVX bugs" thread here - great! :D

Thank you - so this is only related to alt-presets which limit the output to avoid clipping on playback.

BTW: Unfortunately, the LAME_ENC.DLL in BeSweet is a little old (based on version 3.90 - last LAME.EXE stable is 3.96), so this could be the next candidate for an update.

[Mug Funky]

lame 3.90.3 is the hydrogenaudio recommended version (mainly because they tested it so so so much, and will have to do it all again for a new build), so this isn't too bad of a problem for besweet.

i'm all for progress though :) HA can't sit on that version forever - it stifles LAME development in my opinion (i'm willing to put up with 1 artefact in 100 songs in the name of progress :)).