Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:25:14 -0700 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MP3 Conversion Port? Message-ID: <01fc01c2325d$24b69cd0$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> References: <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> <20020723151633.GF82383@dan.emsphone.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:16 AM Subject: Re: MP3 Conversion Port? > 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. Thank you for your answer. So it's not as simple as just discarding some data to lower the bit rate? I was just trying to save some disk space as 128K mp3s sound good to me. Well I guess it's off to eBay to shop for an additional drive. :) Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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