darren@themintybox ~/Desktop $ time lame AKsack.wav
LAME 3.98.4 64bits (
http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 16538 Hz - 17071 Hz
Encoding AKsack.wav to AKsack.wav.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (11x) 128 kbps qval=3
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
10529/10529 (100%)| 0:04/ 0:04| 0:04/ 0:04| 57.782x| 0:00
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kbps MS % long switch short %
128.0 100.0 76.1 13.4 10.5
Writing LAME Tag...done
ReplayGain: +0.5dB
real 0m4.778s
user 0m4.690s
sys 0m0.080s
in a VirtualBox VM of Linux Mint 10
core I-7 unlocked 3.4Ghz, 8Gb of ram assigned to the VB