From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 8:35:46 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 D218437B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clink.schulte.org (clink.schulte.org [209.134.156.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA9C43E42 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0D7243BE; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:35:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: from schulte-laptop.nospam.schulte.org (nb-65.netbriefings.com [209.134.134.65]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558432440D; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:35:37 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20020723103035.05fcce88@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:35:16 -0500 To: "Drew Tomlinson" , "Dan Nelson" From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: MP3 Conversion Port? Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <01fc01c2325d$24b69cd0$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> References: <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> <20020723151633.GF82383@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre6 on clink.schulte.org 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 At 08:25 AM 7/23/2002 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >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, Correct. You'd need to go back to source media (CD?) and re-encode @ 128k to achieve this. I prefer 192k, personally. Disk is inexpensive. ;-) I had fun this past weekend and ripped/encoded ~150 CDs from collection. With any luck I'll be able to finish the rest this weekend. I love buying CDs, but I hate dealing with them. Everything goes right to hard drive now. >Drew -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message