Using Sound Juicer I am able to rip CDs very conveniently. I would like to rip them in about 256 kbit/s variable bitrate. To accomplish this I have defined the settings for mp3 in gnome-audio-profiles-properties
(from gnome-media-profiles ) as follows:
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr-quality=0 ! id3v2mux
where vbr-quality=0
should give me a variable bitrate averaging 245 kbit/s. The resulting files however always say they are in 128 kbit/s.
When I change vbr-quality
from 6 to 0 all resulting files differ in exactly 1 Byte only when comparing them with cmp file1.mp3 file2.mp3
. This means vbr-quality settings have no effect here.