No, lame doesn't know anything about the Windows registry at all, and
therefore doesn't alter any settings.  lame is not a windows only
application.  In fact it is developed on Linux systems.

Ross.

Ian Moss wrote:
> Hey everyone.
> 
> I'm no computer programer por anything so I was wondering if 
> you guys could answer this question for me. Firstly I'll give 
> you a bit of a background before ask.
> 
> I use to encode using Xing, buggled as "Audio catalyst".  
> Thought this was great until a year or so ago I stumbled over 
> the LAME encoder, never gone back.  I use to encode in Full 
> VBR with Xing and found that on average it would enocde 
> around the 192kbps mark maybe less. It was rare for a song to 
> have an average bitrate higher than 200kbps when encoded in 
> full VBR. I have the lame encoder installed and have been 
> happy using its VBR encoder with my settings set at my 
> desired quality. The other day however I was in a rush to 
> encode a couple of Cd's, so I used Xing, (as you know its a 
> screaming fast encoder). After encoding the cd's I found that 
> the average bitrates of those files were quite high, all over 
> the 200kbps mark. This made me start to think....xing never 
> encoded so high before, and I used the encoder for years with 
> it, so I am very famialr with what it does. I encoded some 
> cd's which I had already econded before with xing to see if 
> it was just me or was the xing actually encodeding at a 
> higher quality than ever before.... I used the Album 
> "Chemical Brothers - Surrender". When I encoded this 
> songalbum orginal with Xing @ full VBR,  files had an average 
> bitrate between 112kbps to about 140kbps. That was not good 
> enough for me so I enocded at a constant bitrate of 192kbps. 
> However when I enocded the Cd again, this time xing encoded 
> the files in full VBR with a much higher bitrate average 
> across the files, ie using higher bitrates when it encoded 
> than before. So whats the go??? My question is? does the lame 
> encoder do something weird with the xing encoder? Like stuff 
> around with the registries or something. Does the lame 
> encoders settings actually change or alter the xing encoder 
> as well? Something is up with xng, cause it has never encoded 
> so high before. Any comments?
> 
> 
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