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schumph

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Registered: 2005-02-23

Posts: 17

reduce mp3 bitrate

I have a number of mp3's with a large bitrate. Is there a tool that anyone knows of that I can use to reduce the size of these from, for example, 512 to 128?

Thanks

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paranoos

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From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: reduce mp3 bitrate

the only way to do that is to re-encode them. use lame.

schumph

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Registered: 2005-02-23

Posts: 17

Re: reduce mp3 bitrate

Thanks Paranoos - I'll look at the man page for lame.

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FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: reduce mp3 bitrate

I think the highest possible bitrate is 320 Kbit for MP3. Remember: when you reencode an MP3, you'll have a lot of quality loss (you encoded it with lossy compression twice). So ask yourself if the quality loss is worth the smaller file size.

To make .wavs from .mp3s, you can use XMMS and set its output plugin to WAVE instead of ALSA/OSS/... Then you can use Lame to encode the .wavs to .mp3 again.

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