-b bitrate | For MPEG-1 (sampling frequencies of 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz) n = 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320 | help + man |
-h | higher quality, but a little slower. | help + man |
-f | fast mode (lower quality) | help + man |
-V n | 0 <= n <= 9.999 Enable VBR (Variable BitRate) and specifies the value of VBR quality (default = 4). | help + man |
--preset type | type must be "medium", "standard", "extreme", "insane", or a value for an average desired bitrate and depending on the value specified, appropriate quality settings will be used. | help + man |
--help id3 | Display a list of available options. | help + man |
--longhelp | full list of options | help |
--license | print License information | help |
-r | Assume the input file is raw pcm. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-x | Swap bytes in the input file (or output file when using --decode). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-s sfreq | sfreq = 8/11.025/12/16/22.05/24/32/44.1/48 (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--bitwidth n | Input bit width per sample. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--signed | Instructs LAME that the samples from the input are signed (the default for 16, 24 and 32 bits raw pcm data). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--unsigned | Instructs LAME that the samples from the input are unsigned (the default for 8 bits raw pcm data, where 0x80 is zero). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--little-endian | Instructs LAME that the samples from the input are in little-endian form. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--big-endian | Instructs LAME that the samples from the input are in big-endian form. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--mp1input | Assume the input file is a MPEG Layer I (ie MP1) file. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--mp2input | Assume the input file is a MPEG Layer II (ie MP2) file. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--mp3input | Assume the input file is a MP3 file. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--nogap file1 | gapless encoding for a set of contiguous files (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--nogapout dir | output dir for gapless encoding (must precede --nogap) (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--out-dir dir | If no explicit output file is specified, a file will be written at given path. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-m mode | mode = s, j, f, d, m, l, r (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-a | Mix the stereo input file to mono and encode as mono. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--freeformat | Produces a free format bitstream. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--decode | Uses LAME for decoding to a wav file. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-t | Disable writing of the INFO Tag on encoding. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--comp arg | Instead of choosing bitrate, using this option, user can choose compression ratio to achieve. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--scale n | (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--scale-l n | (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--scale-r n | Scales input (every channel, only left channel or only right channel) by n. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--replaygain-fast | Compute ReplayGain fast but slightly inaccurately. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--replaygain-accurate | Compute ReplayGain more accurately and find the peak sample. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--noreplaygain | Disable ReplayGain analysis. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--clipdetect | Clipping detection. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--noasm type | Disable specific assembly optimizations ( mmx / 3dnow / sse ). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--disptime n | Set the delay in seconds between two display updates. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--nohist | By default, LAME will display a bitrate histogram while producing VBR mp3 files. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-S | (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--silent | (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--quiet | Do not print anything on the screen. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--verbose | Print a lot of information on the screen. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-q qual | 0 <= qual <= 9 (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--cbr | enforce use of constant bitrate. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--abr n | Turns on encoding with a targeted average bitrate of n kbits, allowing to use frames of different sizes. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-v | use variable bitrate (--vbr-new) (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--vbr-old | Invokes the oldest, most tested VBR algorithm. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--vbr-new | Invokes the newest VBR algorithm. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-B bitrate | For MPEG-1 (sampling frequencies of 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz) n = 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320 (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-F | Strictly enforce the -b option. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-X n | 0 <= n <= 7 (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-Y | lets LAME ignore noise in sfb21, like in CBR (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-e emp | emp = n, 5, c (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-c | Mark the encoded file as being copyrighted. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-o | Mark the encoded file as being a copy. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-p | Turn on CRC error protection. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--nores | Disable the bit reservoir. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--strictly-enforce-ISO | With this option, LAME will enforce the 7680 bit limitation on total frame size. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--lowpass freq | Set a lowpass filtering frequency in kHz. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--lowpass-width freq | Set the width of the lowpass filter. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--highpass freq | Set an highpass filtering frequency in kHz. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--highpass-width freq | Set the width of the highpass filter in kHz. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--resample sfreq | sfreq = 8, 11.025, 12, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 Select output sampling frequency (only supported for encoding). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--tt title | audio/song title (max 30 chars for version 1 tag) (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--ta artist | audio/song artist (max 30 chars for version 1 tag) (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--tl album | audio/song album (max 30 chars for version 1 tag) (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--ty year | audio/song year of issue (1 to 9999) (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--tc comment | user-defined text (max 30 chars for v1 tag, 28 for v1.1) (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--tg genre | audio/song genre (name or number in list) (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--tv id=value | Text or URL frame specified by id and value (v2.3 tag). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--add-id3v2 | force addition of version 2 tag (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--id3v1-only | add only a version 1 tag (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--id3v2-only | add only a version 2 tag (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--id3v2-latin1 | add following options in ISO-8859-1 text encoding. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--id3v2-utf8 | add following options in unicode UTF-8 text encoding (ID3v2.4). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--id3v2-utf16 | add following options in unicode UCS-2 text encoding (ID3v2.3). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--space-id3v1 | pad version 1 tag with spaces instead of nulls (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--pad-id3v2 | same as --pad-id3v2-size 128 (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--pad-id3v2-size num | adds version 2 tag, pad with extra "num" bytes (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--genre-list | print alphabetically sorted ID3 genre list and exit (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--ignore-tag-errors | ignore errors in values passed for tags, use defaults in case an error occurs (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-g | run graphical analysis on <infile>. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |