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how come the ABR is set to 140?
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This is a setting that i usually use for my portable players, it produces decent sized files, but of course you can increase that value to what ever you want.
Consider that this is VBR-ABR, it doesn't have much sense bringing the value to 192 kbs. Many users split the min. and max value, so that would be 160 kbps.
You can also try and give the max. option a greater value like 256, in this case 185 to 195 kbps would be a reasonable value as the averge fixed bitrate.
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I though it was usually around 192 for the average bit rate of a high quality VBR?
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ABR and VBR are not the same thing, VBR will scale the total range from 16 to 320 kbps. ABR (average bitrate) as it's called will work inside a fixed minimum and maximum bitrate range. In the case of the first setting the user determines the lowest and the highest encoding setting and also indicates the average bitrate for the whole file.
Immagine a Vumeter with a 60db range, the needle will alway's be lurking back and forth in the 30 db section.
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what is this paranoia mode in CDEX?
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Cdparanoia is a Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) extraction tool, commonly known on the net as a 'ripper'. The application is built on top of the Paranoia library, which is doing the real work (the Paranoia source is included in the cdparanoia source distribution). Like the original cdda2wav, cdparanoia package reads audio from the CDROM directly as data, with no analog step between, and writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM.
Cdparanoia is a bit different than most other CDDA extration tools. It contains few-to-no 'extra' features, concentrating only on the ripping process and knowing as much as possible about the hardware performing it. Cdparanoia will read correct, rock-solid audio data from inexpensive drives prone to misalignment, frame jitter and loss of streaming during atomic reads. Cdparanoia will also read and repair data from CDs that have been damaged in some way.
At the same time, however, cdparanoia turns out to be easy to use and administrate; It has no compile time configuration, happily autodetecting the CDROM, its type, its interface and other aspects of the ripping process at runtime.
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hope that helps you
