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In the end everyone encodes whatever way they want, we are not bound by rules (like the scene). I had a read of your blog link. If you have a good media encoder, you may not notice much of a difference between the joint stereo and stereo files. Current versions of LAME are the best it's gonna get fo...

No idea why you would want to encode in normal stereo.

Have a read here: wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Joint_stereo

Anyway, I encode with ALL2LAME, it's a LAME frontend and can encode flac/wav to MP3 with whatever settings you want.

Managed to obtain it somewhere else,

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Interesting.

Where do we go from here? Anything else you want to try?

Or can we safely say that we need the exact source file to replicate old MP3s?

I had a go at this a few months ago, even with the exact encoding settings and using the lame version specified in the nfo I was unable to reproduce (from .wav) the exact rip they made. I think your theory would need some testing. Does an encoder behave the same on 2 different PCs. For example, if w...

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martins1982 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 10:37 pm

Maybe Winrar outdated.

Most likely using a very old version of WinRAR indeed.
Try to update to v5.91 at least.

I'm not having any issues with the files here.

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