Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:35:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MP3 Conversion Port? Message-ID: <20020723153520.GG82383@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <01fc01c2325d$24b69cd0$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> References: <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> <20020723151633.GF82383@dan.emsphone.com> <01fc01c2325d$24b69cd0$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG>
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In the last episode (Jul 23), Drew Tomlinson said: > From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> > > 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
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