Transcoding with lame instead of ffmpeg

[hegleran]

I had looked through the forums and did not see a similar post. I was wondering if someone could tell me whether there are any benefits to using lame for my transcoding instead of ffmpeg. Prior to using Subsonic, I have used lame for all of my encoding needs, however Subsonic uses ffmpeg by default. Are there any benefits, or would there be any negative impact in using lame as opposed to ffmpeg?

Thanks!

[wezman2k]

i'd like to know this too, as i have some songs that won't transcode for some reason (v0 mp3's)

[gurutech]

Try adding "mp3" as an option under the first entry under transcoding. I did this, and songs that previously wouldn't transcode are now transcoding.

[kyomi7502]

I tried this adding mp3 the beginning and even though my player has transcoding turned off.. I kept getting a bunch of "Error syncing to stream".

Deleted "mp3" and it went back to working just fine. It's not ideal for the server to be streaming the full kbps of the song since it takes more bandwidth.. but it's the only option I have at the moment to make sure every song works