LAME Encoded MP3's play terrible in mp3cd players.

[reddice]

So far I can't seem to find the right mp3 player, CD or otherwise. The problem is that any mp3's that are encoded using the LAME Encoder which stinks. They either have a annoying churp and bleep sound on the right speaker or they play with a loud screetching noise. The Panasonic SC-AK500 Compact Stereo System plays mp3's that are encoded using the LAME Encoder play terrible there is a loud screeching noise that will keep playing, on my cheap Classic mp3 cd player I get a annoying churp and bleep sound on the right speaker. What I wan't to know is how does the IPod play LAME Encoded mp3's, does it have this problem or do they play fine. Also how do other mp3 players that you own play. Of course I can play LAME mp3's on my computer without any problems, the problems arise when I play them on portable players. I am going crazy trying to find a player that will play them fine. If they are encoded using anything else they play fine. By the way the mp3's that I download the LAME ones play terrible on portable units. Find me one that plays fine on any portable unit, cd based or harddrive based.

[Fuelm@n]

What version of the LAME encoder are you using?
You may try using the Fraunhofer codec, though not free. What do you use to rip the mp3's?

[reddice]

If anyone knows what mp3 cd player can play LAME mp3's fine.

[Train]

I convert then to wave, then when i reconvert back to Lame MP3 I use the 128bit rate and they come out sounding fine to me.

[Ridgerunr]

As Train says,,if you get dBPowerAmp from: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
Use it to convert whatever mp3's you now have to Wav. Then convert them back to mp3/128 bitrate/stereo 44100Hz. dBP uses Lame 3.92 to encode and does it very well. I simply burn them as ISO files with Nero and right now,i'm playing a disc with over 200 files on it in my home theatre system using a cheap lil' Apex DVD player and surround sound is on and they sound great. Can't speak for a portable mp3 player,don't use one. But,if it's worth it's salt,it should be able to play what i've recommended with no problems...

[NoBoB]

My Walkman-style mp3 player (a D-Link) doesn't have any of those artifact effects you describe. It will balk on Variable-Bit-Rate encodings, whether done by LAME (my usual choice via dbPowerAmp) or another encoder, but it plays CBR's just fine.

[reddice]

Playing them on the computer is fine the problem is the portable players.

[reddice]

Fixed it. I use a program cdex and after reading many message boards with similar problems playing on non pc players it said to go into the options and chose the J Stereo option and now they sound fine, no artifacts. My panasonic player which played back real bad artifacts now play Lame encoded mp3's with the J stereo perfect now. Also any mp3's that I downloaded that were set wrong I reencoded with j stereo and they play fine. I am glad now I don't have to buy and try all new hardware.