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rraud wrote on 9/7/2019, 11:52 AM

"S.F.f 13" ... Are you referring to SF Pro or SF Audio Studio?

What are are the MP3 encode settings?

Plug-ins can slow things down a lot. I normally render a PCM file, then encode MP3s from that.

I recall SF Pro 12 slow rendering MP3 . So I checked a one minute stereo PCM file: Pro 13 (build 100): 5.2 sec.s, Pro 12 (build 170) was a half-second slower; VP-16 was the same as SF Pro 13; SF Pro 10 was one second faster than SFP 13.

My MP3 encode parameters were all set to 256kbps, 44.1KHz, CBR, Stereo, Max quality. There are no plug-ins are other processors enabled on the apps. PC: Win 10 w/ 32 MB RAM.

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Lior-Reshef wrote on 9/7/2019, 12:11 PM

Thanks for the answer and the wellcome

I'm using S.faudio studio in both cases.

To tell tou the truth at the radio station we use adobe audio, the sf I use at home and did not change default configuration.

My recordings are stereo, 92 kbps, 41.1 Khz and using the magix audio sound.

the computer is a win 10 pro 8 mb ram

 

rraud wrote on 9/7/2019, 3:43 PM

Another option is a third-party MP3 encoder. I recently stated in another thread about the WinLAME RC3. That rendered the test file almost twice as fast as SF Pro 10. RC3 also has a HPF parameter in the UI and some other useful parameters can be customized in the presets file/script.

IMHO though, the Fraunhofer encoder sounds slightly better at low bitrates. I don't know if SF Audio Studio has the Fraunhofer encoder, as does SF Pro.

Another consideration is, it is also possible the Fraunhofer encoder is installed.. but not enabled. Read this* and maybe download the fix. Unfortunately I did not perform any before and after evaluation.
* http://www.komeil.com/blog/enable-fraunhofer-mp3-l3codecp-acm-windows

Lior-Reshef wrote on 9/8/2019, 11:15 AM

Thanks again

The thing is I have got WinLame installed in this computer but I cannot find, In audio studio, an option to select the encoder.

rraud wrote on 9/8/2019, 11:58 AM

The LAME encoder is not available in SF. It can be added, but I recall it was difficult and required registry tweak and such, so I have never tred it. I usually render a PCM master beforehand anyway, so using a third-party UI is no big deal.