What is MP3?
A MP3 to optimally encode, it is important to have an idea of to how MP3 works:
- MP3 is a from the Fraunhofer Institute, in particular, Karlheinz Brandenburg, developed an Audio Codec for the MPEG I Standard.
- MP3 is a compression method that makes the Psychoakustig-to-Use: The audio signal is divided into narrow frequency bands. The spectral components, which the people ignored, partially or completely, are stored with a lower accuracy.
- The smaller the predetermined bit rate, the less accurate the figure, and the more likely it is that frequencies above the masking threshold to be inaccurately stored.
MP3 encoding is optimal
Depending on whether you use music from a CD rip, voice recordings, or recordings from analog media such as vinyl records, like to encode, suitable for different settings. Others are always useful. All the settings you can, for example, in XMedia Recode to make the CHIP free Online offers.
- Generally speaking, the sampling rate of the encoding of the file to maintain. In the case of Audio CDs, this is 44100Hz. For recording from vinyl records or cassettes also 32000Hz rich, language remains 22050Hz yet clearly understood.
- In the case of pure voice is enough Mono for music Joint-Stereo is usually more efficient than simple Stereo, because through the Mid-Side encoding is lossless, some Bits can be saved.
- As bitrate mode ABR (Variable Bit Rate-Average Bit Rate) VBR - always the best choice: Here are saved in the passages in which frequency ranges can be significantly masked or where absolute silence reigns, extremely a lot of data that can be used elsewhere useful. Depending on the type of the signal, a MP3 with a VBA-ABR-Bitrate by an average 128kpbs can be significantly more accurate than a file with a constant bit-rate (kBR) of 160kbps. In any case, it is at the same file size is always at least as good as a kBR-file with the same Bitrate.
- To take advantage of this Potential, you should set the VBR quality to the Maximum, the minimum Bitrate to 32kbps, and the maximum is 224.
- Depending on how nuanced your music is, is an average bit rate of 128 to 192kbps is usually ideal. Mono files need, of course, only the halved bit rate. For language 32-to-48-to Understand the rich, up to 64kbps, for a little clearer sound. Here, you can also use a high-pass from about 90Hz.
- Needless to say, you will achieve the best quality, if you set the quality to "high". Thus, the coding takes a little more time, at today's Processor speeds this is hardly noticeable in weight.
- Completely pointless it is to encode an MP3 later with better quality or to save a Mono file to Stereo.
XMedia Recode MP3 settings
As your well-encoded music collection to manage optimally, explains in this practical tip.
