[geoff]

On 4/01/2020 1:59 pm, Scott Dorsey wrote:
wrote:
I need help from the specialists on this group.


Please download and examine the following WAV file;

http://www.c-compiler.com/myfiles/stgeorges-201219.WAV

I want to convert this to an MP3 file.

Please tell me what settings I should use for the MP3 file, eg; MP3
Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec (professional), attributes eg 128
kbit/sec, 48.000 Hz, Mono

Please try to give specfic advice, because my understanding of audio
formats is poor, and I need guidance as to the best MP3 parameters for
this conversion.

This is basically what a mastering engineer does. The mastering engineer
will listen to different codecs and make encoding adjustments (each of the
codecs has several hundred settings) in order to get the encoding as
transparent as possible.

It sounds to me like you are asking someone to do the job of a mastering
engineer for you, without paying them. This is not likely to happen.

My suggestion is that if you don't care about streaming that you just
use the highest bit rate available, use the LAME encoder, and it won't
be horrible. If you care about streaming and want compromises to be made
in a reasonable fashion, you will get what you pay for.
--scott



To hell with MP3s.

Nowadays storage memory is cheap and huge. I just rip CDs to ALAC on an
iPod via the worst ever audio program (iTunes), and convert to FLAC for
my phone which has far bigger SD card capacity than my 64GB iPod.

The mono thing can be achieved at the ALC-FLAC (or whatever target
format) stage with whichever software (in my case Sound Forge).

geoff