This preset should generally be transparent to most people on most music and is already quite high in quality.
General Note for all alt-presets:
alt-presets are designed to provide the highest possible quality.
They have for the most part been subject to and tuned via rigorous double blind listening tests to verify and achieve this objective.
These are continually updated to coincide with the latest developments that occur and as a result should provide you with nearly the best quality currently possible from LAME.
</comment>
<value name="presetVBR">1001</value>
<value name="maxBitrateVBR">0</value>
<value name="hideLameSettings">1</value>
</preset>
<preset name="alt-preset: standard + nogap">
<comment>
alt-preset: standard + nogap
This preset is the same as the "alt-preset: standard" one, except that it enables LAME nogap encoding. With this feature turned on, you can encode continuous-mix-CD's to mp3. When playing back the created mp3's (e.g. with Winamp + gapless output plugin), there will be no hearable clicks, pops or gaps.
</comment>
<value name="presetVBR">1001</value>
<value name="maxBitrateVBR">0</value>
<value name="hideLameSettings">1</value>
<value name="noGap">1</value>
</preset>
<preset name="alt-preset: fast standard">
<comment>
alt-preset: fast standard
Enables the new fast VBR for the standard profile. The disadvantage to the speed switch is that often times the bitrate will be slightly higher than with the normal mode and quality may be slightly lower also.
</comment>
<value name="presetVBR">1004</value>
<value name="maxBitrateVBR">0</value>
<value name="hideLameSettings">1</value>
</preset>
<preset name="alt-preset: extreme">
<comment>
alt-preset: extreme
If you have extremely good hearing and similar equipment, this preset will generally provide slightly higher quality than the "standard" mode.
</comment>
<value name="presetVBR">1002</value>
<value name="maxBitrateVBR">0</value>
<value name="hideLameSettings">1</value>
</preset>
<preset name="alt-preset: fast extreme">
<comment>
alt-preset: fast extreme
Enables the new fast VBR for the extreme profile. The disadvantage to the speed switch is that often times the bitrate will be slightly higher than with the normal mode and quality may be slightly lower also.
</comment>
<value name="presetVBR">1005</value>
<value name="maxBitrateVBR">0</value>
<value name="hideLameSettings">1</value>
</preset>
<preset name="alt-preset: insane">
<comment>
alt-preset: insane
This preset will usually be overkill for most people and most situations, but if you must have the absolute highest quality with no regard to filesize, this is the way to go.
</comment>
<value name="presetVBR">1003</value>
<value name="maxBitrateVBR">0</value>
<value name="hideLameSettings">1</value>
</preset>
<preset name="alt-preset: ABR 128">
<comment>
alt-preset: ABR 128
Using this preset will usually give you good quality at a specified average bitrate. Depending on the bitrate, this preset will determine the optimal settings for that particular situation.
While this approach works, it is not nearly as flexible as VBR, and usually will not attain the same level of quality as VBR at higher bitrates.
</comment>
<value name="presetABR">128</value>
<value name="VBRquality">4</value>
<value name="hideLameSettings">1</value>
</preset>
<preset name="alt-preset: CBR 128">
<comment>
alt-preset: CBR 128
Using this preset will usually give you good quality at a specified constant bitrate.
Note that the ABR mode does provide higher quality but CBR may be useful in situations such as when streaming an mp3 over the internet may be important.
</comment>
<value name="presetCBR">128</value>
<value name="hideLameSettings">1</value>
</preset>
<preset name="winLAME: portable player">
<comment>
winLAME: portable player
This preset is designed for portable players. It keeps the bitrate of the produced file at an average of 96 kbps, never exceeding a maximum bitrate of 256 kbps.
This preset can be used to compress audio streams to mp3, in e.g. VirtualDub. A RIFF WAVE Header is prepended to the mp3 data, and the file extension will be ".wav".
