Found this one in Google Cache from the old forums!!!

Quote from: memaximusotter
Jun 14 2005, 08:36 PM
Thought Id share this how-to since I had a bit of a play with it. I usually just use Sound-Juicer with Ogg as its defaults are good and sane--VBR with a default of around 164kps. When I do mp3 for somebody else, its usually RipperX with 192 CBR, as thats good enough for most portable players.

I was making a few for a relative with a small flash player and wanted to do VBR. (Variable Bit Rate, btw). Kaudiocreator can make these but Im a Gnome user, so I wanted to have ripperX do this. Under the config dialog it lets you choose bitrate and you can check if you want VBR--but apparently checking VBR only affects Ogg Vorbis.

So to get sexy Lame mp3 VBRs with RipperX you need to fill the "Extra Options" entry at the bottom of the mp3 configuration dialog with something.

Mine currently looks like this: -v -b 128 -B 224

Explained:

"-v" means VBR
"-b" minimum bitrate
"-B" maximum bitrate

There are many more variables: you can set the quality of the encoding with the "-q" switch. 0 being awesome, but slow, 9 being fast. Run a "lame --longhelp" in a term to see other options.

Unintuitively enough, do NOT click the "user vbr" radio button.

lol

i dont rip to mp3. i cba to compile stuff as it takes an age to do anything on my dinosaur of a machine with the original hd in.

waiting for my new one to arrive 7800 rpm here i come massive speed increase time

but then i am waiting to basically get a monitor an then my xp2200 machine will be up

no more waiting for meeheeeeeeeee