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Converting an mp3 to a lower quality
BillieTheBot
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Hey guys, i used to have a program where i could convert an mp3 to a lower quality bitrate, like from 192kbps down to like 50/60 or something. It was freeware and worked well, but i have vista and i lost the old program when my other machine died, and now the most recent version of it is shit.
Would anyone be able to do me a favour, would it be possible for them to receive an email from myself of an mp3 track, convert it, like to 64kbps and then send it back?
Would anyone be able to do me a favour, would it be possible for them to receive an email from myself of an mp3 track, convert it, like to 64kbps and then send it back?
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Obviously i changed any altered settings back to how they were afterwards, and it was a long awkward way of doing it.
But it worked, just had one of those brain waves!
The importing in the sense of from a cd or a wma changes the bitrate, but when i just add a song to itunes that is allready on the hard disc it just adds to the library and doesnt do anything else. (ps the original file was just mp3)
If you recode to wma then recode back to lower bitrate mp3, you will lose more quality than going straight from e.g. 128 kbps mp3 -> 64 kbps mp3.
If I want to encode MP3s I usually use RazorLame which is a free frontend for LAME: an open source MP3 encoding app (also free).
Also, if you're concerned about filesize but don't want to lower quality too much you might want to consider encoding in a variable bitrate (VBR). That way you won't be using 192kbps for a section of silence or sound that would sound the same at a lower bitrate.