----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
