Re: [OT] Re: [Gtkpod-questions] how to be sure I'm ripping at variable bit rate?

[Denis H. <de...@ha...>]

Wow.  Todd, 10 points to you for the incredibly detailed answer.  Thanks!

I also encountered some weirdness with the lame vbr files.  The duration 
was incorrect in all tools I used to look at it.

I'm going to stick with the CBR files I've got now (rather than 
re-ripping everything) once I can figure out how to get my iPod 
completely cleaned out so I cna start over (see my other thread).

Thanks again.  I'm off to sleep.

dwh


Todd Zullinger wrote:

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>Ryan Krauss wrote:
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>>I think you are not using VBR.  Mine looks like this:
>>audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc vbr=4 vbr-quality=3
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>Does gst produce proper VBR files for you then?  I tried with
>vbr-quality=1 and vbr-quality=3 and it didn't.  None of the tools I
>looked at the mp3's produced with those settings showed the correct
>times when I used 1 either.  Using 3 it was much closer, but still off
>by a second or so.  I even tried adding xingheader=true but it didn't
>make any difference.  I'm using gstreamer 0.8.10
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