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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

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