I'd be interested in some of those lame command lines. I just switched to using the dll last week instead of the exe for the simple reason that whatever way I had the exe configured, it was taking about 30-35 minutes to encode a ripped .wav file compared with the dll ripping and encoding at between 0.5x - 0.7x (about 5 minutes for a 3.5min track)


From abcde (linux using cdparanoia and lame) I use the following command arguments:

-m a -q 2 -h -v -V 2 -b 96 -k --add-id3v2

There is a bit of redundancy in the arguments, but it works very well for me. Basically, I'm setting it to (in order)

Automatically decide stereo format (joint or separate)
quality 2 (1-10 scale, 1 being absolute best)
High quality switch (Vbr automatically turns this on I think)
vbr mode
VBR quality of compression (1-10 scale, 1 being bigger files, 10 being crappy sound)
Minimum bitrate of 96kbs
kill the high-pass filter
force writing id3v2 tags (lame will write v1 tags by default only)