From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 8:35:25 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 B65F537B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F196643E65 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:35:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6NFZKJh011714; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:35:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:35:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MP3 Conversion Port? Message-ID: <20020723153520.GG82383@dan.emsphone.com> References: <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> <20020723151633.GF82383@dan.emsphone.com> <01fc01c2325d$24b69cd0$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01fc01c2325d$24b69cd0$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: > From: "Dan Nelson" > > 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. :) The Ogg Vorbis audio format is designed to allow this; they call it "bitrate peeling". There are no tools written yet that actually do it though. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message