Need a program that'll lower MP3 quality for me

[geno]

I need to shrink down some MP3s, lower the bitrate and quality - what's a free/shareware proggie that'll do that for me?

Any help's appreciated, thanks!

 

[way]

Kazaa

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: way
Kazaa

??

was that a joke? ha ha?

 

[Analog]

Easy audio file converter.

 

[fs5]

itunes does it.

 

[merlocka]

goldwave

 

[way]

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: way
Kazaa

??

was that a joke? ha ha?

I was joking.

Seriously, you could do it all with the LAME mp3 encoder in the command line. You can use the --decode tag to convert an mp3 to wav and then call lame again with whatever bitrate/quality parameters you want to convert that to mp3.

 

[IcemanJer]

dPowerAMP's Music Converter can do it for you. Google for link.

 

[slycat]

jeez...do a search for "convert+mp3+bitrate" on google. are u that inept?

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: slycat
jeez...do a search for "convert+mp3+bitrate" on google. are u that inept?

thanks for the help, no really, thank you. go away now.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: way

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: way
Kazaa

??

was that a joke? ha ha?

I was joking.

Seriously, you could do it all with the LAME mp3 encoder in the command line. You can use the --decode tag to convert an mp3 to wav and then call lame again with whatever bitrate/quality parameters you want to convert that to mp3.

Thanks, that's what I ended up doing - I appreciate the suggestion

 

[Turkish]

LAME

 

[Howard]

Noob!

 

[Slickone]

I asked in another thread about this, but wanted something I could set to auto do it when I'm xfering to my mp3 player.
I was also told about dbPowerAMP Music Converter for downsampling, but no one knew anything that would do on the fly converting.