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Originally Posted by nightsteel11 Hi Folks,
I'm looking to backup my music collection soon and I've decided on CDEX to help me out with that using a LAME encoder. EAC looks really good as well, but my ears are not so good and I doubt I would hear the difference (as I'm happy with even 128's sometimes). I hear that vers. 3.96 is the best version of the codec out there - is this true? I would like to find a tutorial that shows me how to configure it in CDEX to get excellent 192 or 224 VBR files converted to MP3. Any ideas? I've tried searching, and it seems there is only basic CDEX tutorials or Advanced EAC ones. Please help.
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here are some encoder settings that you can choose from, just click the images to enlarge, and check the same options and just try them out.
I have provided 3 different options:
VBR-ABR, Classic
VBR and old time favourite
CBR, i have checked the options that give the better quality to file size ratio. It's up to you and your PC about ripping and encoding on the fly.
BTW my encoder is not updated to the latest release, but these settings are valid for all Lame engines.
01 - VBR-ABR settings 128=224 kbps stereo VHQ (q=0) 
02 - VBR settings 192=224 kbps stereo Normal (q=5) 
03 - CBR settings 192 kbps stereo VHQ (q=0) 
From the CDex Manual Quote:
Quality (default value Normal):
With the LAME encoder, you can specify the output quality; thus you can trade off encoding time against sound quality. The default (normal) is recommended for the lower bitrates (<160 kbps), high quality for bitrates >160 kbps.
VBR Method Setting
The VBR method setting allows you the change the VBR algorithm which is used for the encoding (detailed information can be found in the LAME user documentation - see http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/doc/html/index.html). The following selections are available
Disabled: Don't use VBR; instead encodie with a Constant Bit Rate (CBR)
VBR-Default: Use the default VBR method (currently set to VBR-MTRH)
VBR-Old: LAME's first functional approach, based on masking, bisection in the bit domain.
VBR-New: LAME's second approach, based on masking and direct noise allocation.
VBR-MTRH: a combination of old and new (VBR) routines
VBR-ABR: The Average Bit Rate (ABR) setting, the encoding principle is similar to what AAC uses as VBR encoding, it is based on perceptual entropy, but more like CBR than VBR. When you select the ABR option in the VBR Settings box, the ABR edit box will be enabled. In this edit box you can specify the target average bit rate. Of course, a larger bit rate will yield generally better-sounding (but larger) MP3 files.
ABR Settings
VBR Quality Setting
This option allows you to set the Variable bit-rate option. Variable bit-rate encoding will enable dynamically determined bit-rates that depend on the music content of the current frame. This improves the overall quality of the encoded file without increasing the file size. This option sets the criteria used to determine when to increase the bit-rate for a frame. The lower the number, the lower the criteria will be. Thus VBR_0 will yield the best quality (but the largest file size) while VBR_9 will have less sound quality but the file size will be the smallest. The recommended variable bit-rate option is VBR_4. If you don't want VBR encoding, set this option to None.
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