Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:13:18 +0530 From: "Girish Venkatachalam" <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3 Message-ID: <7938ae610608262243l4e85fd6bw3147dfeb7a636d7f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060827053654.GA60292@thought.org> References: <20060827053654.GA60292@thought.org>
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On 8/27/06, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE > audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3 > files that are stored at 198k high fidelity and outputting these to > 16k or 32k mp3 (or *.ogg or other format) audio files? > > thanks for any insights, sugggestions, or pointers, > > gary Normally voice files dont' need the sort of fidelity ur talking about. you can make do with a much lower bit rate though i can't give u a number. u have to test it with ur ears. there are plenty of tools out there that give u what u want. sox is one and ffmpeg is another. i am sure there are many other that do as good a job. if i were u i woudnt go for ogg since it causes transcoding losses. If you had a wav file, ogg is ok but since u already have an mp3, ogg doesnt have enuf info to do a good job. HTH, Girish -- Education is an admirable thing but it is good to remember from time to time that anything that is worth knowing cannot be taught. - Oscar Wilde
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