New ripping parameters in Audio CD Extractor??

[oxf]

A couple of weeks ago I upgraded and did a clean installed of Karmic.

In previous versions of Audio CD Extractor you could edit a string in the "edit preferences" to set the variable bit rate for MP3 ripping. Specifically you could set the option "VBR=4" (Lame New Algorthym) to select variable bit rate. However, now the "VBR=xx" option is no longer there!

Searching around a bit reveals some indications that using a newer realease of Lame this might no longer necessary? But its at all clear. Please could someone clarify whats what?
Do I need to insert VBR=4 or not?
and if I do anyway will it affect anything?

Many thanks

[Heymull]

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr-quality=6 ! id3v2mux

That is a long string, but it works for me, creating roughly 230kb-rated mp3 files, pretty close to uncompressed in listening quality.

[oxf]

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr-quality=6 ! id3v2mux

That is a long string, but it works for me, creating roughly 230kb-rated mp3 files, pretty close to uncompressed in listening quality.

Hi,

Thats not quite what I was asking. I was wondering about the absence of the the "vbr=.." switch by default in the string on install and whether I should add it in. Since I couldn't find any documentation about it

My old string was: ...lame name=enc mode=0 vbr=4 vbr-quality=0 ! id3v2mux

(vbr=4 specified VBR using new Lame algorthm)

I guess I'll just insert it and see.

[Heymull]

Got it now, I missed the reference. You inserted vbr=4. What was the result?