How To Set Mp3 Quality in avconv?

[Yellow Pasque]

Thank you very much for this superb info. My current purpose is Android playback, which i believe those formats can't do.

Android 3.1 added native FLAC support: https://developer.android.com/guide/...a-formats.html

[SeijiSensei]

The default music players on my Android phones have always played FLAC and Ogg Vorbis natively, including my now three-year-old Samsung S3. FLAC is the only format I've used for music archiving for the past few years. MX Player for Android covers all the bases when it comes to video playback including things like 10-bit H.264 and H.265 ("hevc") encodes, though the latter probably only works with the software decoder.

I'd avoid proprietary formats like WMA, but anything open like FLAC, Matroska, etc., plays fine on Android just like they do on Linux systems. I'd give the native formats a try before getting into re-encoding.

[johny why]

vlc runs on Android, and this should be able to playback many of the codecs I have mentioned.

thx for that! but i also have to save space on my droid. Will reserve those uncompressed formats for my pc.

change 320 for 64,128,156,192,224,256, to suit your wish does the same as -q in effect

was wondering about that. What happens if quality and bitrate conflict with each other?

anyone know if best quality is 1 or 0?

Main unanswered question now, the error i'm getting on 2-pass. Posted here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2293537

thx

[shantiq]

only use one at a time

[SeijiSensei]

thx for that! but i also have to save space on my droid. Will reserve those uncompressed formats for my pc.

I use a memory card on my phones. Both my old S3 and my new LG Stylo support cards. Even 32 GB holds a lot of music.

[johny why]

I use a memory card on my phones. Both my old S3 and my new LG Stylo support cards. Even 32 GB holds a lot of music.

Thx, i know about memory cards. I use one in my phone.

thx