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[Motch]

Alright,

So I'm currently looking at my winamp playlist and frankly, I have about 1000 songs that are all 320 kbps or higher... I really don't need them at this rate, so I'm looking for a [freeware] program that allows me to quickly change them down to 128 kbps (like all my other songs) without any or little hassle....

Thanks.

 

[tenchir]

You downloaded over a thousand mp3s and you are looking for a "freeware" mp3 encoder?????

 

[Motch]

Okay, or not a freeware one... just need some help finding a way how to encode them all the same bitrate.

 

[Lambtron]

Redownload them.

De-encoding and re-encoding them is going to make them sound even shittier than they would at 128 normally.

 

[tenchir]

http://www.download.com/3150-2140-0.html?tag=dir

 

[nitewulf]

download CD-DA, it has a file format converter, you can downsample to 128 kbps.

 

[fart]

friends don't let friends transcode

redownload them at 128kbps or buy more storage.

 

[nitewulf]

bah, downsampling from 320 to 128 is perfectly fine...upsampling would add noise.

 

[fart]

i'm pretty sure there's no way to do a lossless downsample with mp3. either direction's going to add noise

 

[tenchir]

I never noticed any difference when transcoding from 320k to 128k or from CD to 128k. From what I know of mp3 compression, the codec will remove any unnecessary or insignificant audio range that a human ear could pick up right?

 

[nitewulf]

yes, you're gonna have "loss" of information...but you wouldnt be adding noise, this is digital encoding/decoding, remember.

 

[fart]

no, my point is that i don't think there's any way to downsample without re-encoding. sorry, "lossless" is a bad choice of words. re-encoding will introduce more noise.