From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 8:25:19 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 E428837B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (207-173-227-236.bras01.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [207.173.227.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5663D43E4A for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from TAGALONG (unknown [165.107.42.110]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id ACE85EE547; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <01fc01c2325d$24b69cd0$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "Dan Nelson" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> <20020723151633.GF82383@dan.emsphone.com> Subject: Re: MP3 Conversion Port? Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:25:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" To: "Drew Tomlinson" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" 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