Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:22 pm
During the process of assembling demo sounds for the CWA demo contest, I realized something. The MP3 encoder in Soundforge is really bad. I Converted a simple saw wave & the results were very poor. The artificats it left behind were excessive even at 192kbs. I was running out of time for entry into the contest & I needed something to encode with.
I remembered hearing something about LAME MP3 encoder. I did a search & I came up with this site:
http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.html
I ended up downloading "WORM MP3 encoder". After I came to grips with the drag & drop functionality I listened to the resulting file. I was very impressed. The artificats were very minimal(compaerd to Soundforge's encoder). The site has links to various other encoders using the LAME algorithms(?) spanning all current OS platforms(even Linux).
Anyway, I eventually got my files converted for the contest & they all sounded pretty darn good. Unfortunately I didn't get this encoder until yesterday so my sound submissions probably won't be entered into the pool(although I sent them anyway).
Try this test: take a saw wave with no effects filtering or anything, record it at 16bit 44.1kHz, then encode it with your usual MP3 encoder. I think that may be a good way to measure the quality of an encoder.
If you aren't pleased with the results of your current encoder give one of the LAME ones a try. If your using Windows, go straight for the "WORM MP3 encoder".
If anyone else knows of other good encoders,
by all means, please share...
I remembered hearing something about LAME MP3 encoder. I did a search & I came up with this site:
http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.html
I ended up downloading "WORM MP3 encoder". After I came to grips with the drag & drop functionality I listened to the resulting file. I was very impressed. The artificats were very minimal(compaerd to Soundforge's encoder). The site has links to various other encoders using the LAME algorithms(?) spanning all current OS platforms(even Linux).
Anyway, I eventually got my files converted for the contest & they all sounded pretty darn good. Unfortunately I didn't get this encoder until yesterday so my sound submissions probably won't be entered into the pool(although I sent them anyway).
Try this test: take a saw wave with no effects filtering or anything, record it at 16bit 44.1kHz, then encode it with your usual MP3 encoder. I think that may be a good way to measure the quality of an encoder.
If you aren't pleased with the results of your current encoder give one of the LAME ones a try. If your using Windows, go straight for the "WORM MP3 encoder".
If anyone else knows of other good encoders,
by all means, please share...
