If you are after the best possible quality compressed file I suggest the ‘insane’ preset which produces files of approx. To read more about the different LAME settings have a look here. It is more customisable (and therefore complicated) than other mp3 encoders, but there are some preset settings to help you out.
#ITUNES MP3 ENCODER VS LAME PORTABLE#
It can be optimised for speech, music, portable devices and so on. There are literally hundreds of possible settings to use with LAME. What are the best settings to use in LAME? Select prefs and select ‘cache tracks to hard drive’ also in prefs make sure destination is set to iTunes Music Library.Ĭlick import, you will have a great quality CD in iTunes, in a playlist called imported from LAME. In the window type in –alt-preset insane as you can see above. Select the new iTunes menu item Import with LAME…Ī new iTunes-LAME window will appear that looks like this: Open iTunes and insert a CD into your computer. (It may take a long while to open the first time you run it). In iTunes there should me a new menu item between window and help. The creat a new folder (if it doesn’t already exist) called ‘Scripts’Ĭopy the two LAME files into this scripts folder. To do this in the finder select ‘Go’, ‘Go to Folder’ from the top menu and type in ~/Library/iTunes Copy both these files into your ~Library/iTunes/Scripts folder.
#ITUNES MP3 ENCODER VS LAME DOWNLOAD#
Download the iTunes LAME Encoder.ĭownload the iTunes-LAME Encoder from here (I have a local copy here in case that link changes) and unzip it.ĭownload the Import with LAME script from here and unzip it. It runs from within iTunes, via a drop down script menu. They have a pretty lame logo (see above) probably because they are unpaid programmers not graphic artists. Some people now claim it is the best mp3 encoder available. Slowly as many people worked on LAME it actually overtook the original mp3 encoder. It was originally not as good as the commercial mp3 encoders. Lame is an mp3 encoder that is open source, which means rather than being developed commercially, it was developed by unpaid programmers sharing together.
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