How to find out what bitrate a MP3 is encoded at?

[MichaelD]

Someone uploaded some MP3's to my FTP server...they sound great! The file extension is MP3, just like any other MP3, but when I play it in WMP, it doesn't tell me what bitrate it's playing at, like it does with other MP3's. I'm curious to see what bitrate they are at. I'm pretty sure it's 192 or 256, but I'd like to know, you know? Thanks.

 

[Rallispec]

maybe its Variable bit rate

 

[LordMaul]

Use winamp. It shows: ###/kpbs right below the filename.

 

[zeon]

well if "WMP" means windows media player, then first things first stop using that and download an actually mp3 player like Winamp... they bit be vbr or something so wmp isn't displaying bitrate.. but seriously... stop using wmp...

 

[Angrymarshmello]

I don't know about WMP but in winamp you can view the file details (artist, cd name, etc. and all the bitrate info, khz stuff, etc)

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Ok just checked WMP: play the file, then go to File --> Properties --> Advanced --> MPEG 3 Layer Decoder --> Properties --> Statistics

(Winamp is a lot easier, WMP sucks)

 

[Supermercado]

Open it in Winamp. That will tell you.

And something I discovered recently (although I'm sure people here already know about it): If you're using WinXP, go into Windows Explorer and go to View, then go to Choose Details (make sure that you go to View > Details first if it's not already that way). I selected Bitrate and Duration for all of my music folders. It just adds that information right in there with file name, size, date, etc. Really nifty.

 

[yakko]

Use Winamp.

 

[MichaelD]

OK, OK, OK...I will check out Winamp. I've only been hearing about it for two years now...what can I say? I'm used to Windows MP. 😱 thanks, you guys rock. 😎

*EDIT*
Thank you for the linky, Zeon.

 

[GermyBoy]

I dunno...that's a really hard one to find out. First you should do some resampling of it and reencode it to different formats, and compare filesizes.

If that is too difficult for you, then you can just look at the encoding rate in Winamp.

 

[mk]

Try EncSpot.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Mk4
Try EncSpot.

this will also tell you the codec used to encode, which makes a huge difference