Audio help

[biferi]

Can anyone tell me what the diferance is between these two things?

If I am useing Lame or Audio Graber to make MP3 I always see these two settings for how I want the Audio Channels.

Stereo
Or
Joind Stereo

What is the Diferance??

 

[Remeniz]

Stereo is where the left and right channels are encoded separately. This is the best setting but will be a bigger file.

Joined Stereo is where the small audible differences between the L & R channels is ignored. The larger differences between the channels is kept. (Mainly on the mid to high frequency content) This results in a smaller file but you will loose some of the stereo separation.

Hope I explained that properly.

 

[Kage]

Its not worth it at all though to be honest. Keep the channel seperation

 

[Remeniz]

Its not worth it at all though to be honest. Keep the channel separation

Agreed.

I mean were talking MP3 files here which are small so go with the 'Stereo' setting.

 

[biferi]

thanks for help