In the last episode (Jul 23), Drew Tomlinson said:
> From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 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.
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