Ars Technica

Is the iTunes mp3 encoder really that bad?

Due to some hard drive problems, I need to rip all my cds again. I'm planning on using 192 or 224 mp3s for this. I know I could use EAC+lame, but I like to use iTunes to organize my music. So just ...
Digit

Mix Tracks Using Audacity

To save your tracks as MP3s, you need the LAME MP3 Encoder, which is available under ‘Optional Downloads’ at the same site. STEP 1. Opening Tracks Once you start Audacity, you can open the songs you ...
Ars Technica

Pentium 4 Xeon SMT Benchmark (LAME Encoder)

I loaded up Windows XP yesterday, and to my suprise I discovered four cpu graphs in my taskbar! Here are some LAME encoding benchmark results in my quest to discover how much performance SMT adds if ...
Bit-Tech

Abit IP35 Pro

We tested video encoding performance using VirtualDub-MPEG version 1.6.15 and a multi-threaded version of the Xvid codec, along with the LAME MT MP3 encoder for encoding audio. We did a two-pass ...
Bit-Tech

First Look: Intel P35 chipset

We tested video encoding performance using VirtualDub-MPEG version 1.6.15 and a multi-threaded version of the Xvid codec, along with the LAME MT MP3 encoder for encoding audio. We did a two-pass ...