Ripping VBR in BeSweet

George Tatum · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:15 pm **Post subject:** Ripping VBR in BeSweet

I was advised to use VBR for audio in rips a while back and could never get a decent bitrate in BeSweet so I started using ABR which always gave a bitrate about what I wanted. However

spudthedestroyer wrote:

If your re-encoding the audio, and assuming its MP3, you have two options, VBR and CBR (okay three options, ABR, but IMO, no point).

So could anyone give me any tips on obtaining a decent ~128k/s ABR in BeSweet?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:19 am **Post subject:**

If you set 128kb/s VBR and it ends up lower, have you considered that the bitrate isn't needed? If you want to do overkill you might as well use CBR.

When I set 128kb/s VBR, gspot normally reports 127 or sometimes lower, but if you watch it in winamp it fluctuates massively depending on the audio.

George Tatum · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:21 am **Post subject:**

No, I was getting too much, ~140. It's a while since I tried though and I was having all sorts of probs with BeSweet at the time, so much so I gave up on it and used CoolEdit for a while. I'll give it another go.

George Tatum · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:06 pm **Post subject:**

Tried again, it was ballpark this time (133k/s), btw I use 96k/s as the min and 160 as the max, what do others use?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:13 pm **Post subject:**

George Tatum · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:19 pm **Post subject:**

Thanks

Ripping VBR in BeSweet

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