Hi I am brand new using audition, and not fully up on techy aspects of all this stuff.
I just sliced up a big flac music file into individual songs and saved them as mp3s at the highest quality vbr setting. Which audition said would be the equivalent of about 228 (or something like that) cbr.
But the files I get are all over the map in their bitrates, and though they seem to sound ok spot checking on lousy speakers, it just worries me how small some of the bitrates are. They range from 104 to 198, one being only 32! This is a quiet song, so I take that with a grain of salt.
They are all fairly low, certainly well under what I am used to having around.
I previously used foobar to convert flac to mp3 and it offers vbr at set numbers, and gives output pretty close to what I set, usually hovering just under the target I use of 245.
So what is up with audacity giving such lower numbers? Is the quality worse than what foobar (using LAME) has given me? Or is it just more efficient or different somehow in how it does its thing?
Thanks for any insight!
