From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 8:16:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7914C37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:16:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A8943E4A for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:16:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6NFGXxr083276; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:16:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:16:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MP3 Conversion Port? Message-ID: <20020723151633.GF82383@dan.emsphone.com> References: <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 23), Drew Tomlinson said: > I've searched and browsed the ports collection for a tool that will > allow me to convert mp3 files bit rates. Basically I have a > collection of mp3s that were encoded at various bit rates. I'm > looking for a command line utility that will take mp3s with bit rates > greater than 128K as input and output 128K mp3s. Does such a thing > exist? Lame should be able to take mp3s as input and generate mp3s. But remember you're going to lose quite a bit of quality, as lame will try and encode the artifacts on the first mp3, plus add its own as it tries to lower the bitrate. Don't re-encode unless you need to play them on something that simply can't handle the higher bitrate. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message