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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:16:33 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: MP3 Conversion Port?
Message-ID:  <20020723151633.GF82383@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG>
References:  <01e801c2325a$dec62c10$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG>

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In the last episode (Jul 23), Drew Tomlinson said:
> I've searched and browsed the ports collection for a tool that will
> allow me to convert mp3 files bit rates.  Basically I have a
> collection of mp3s that were encoded at various bit rates.  I'm
> looking for a command line utility that will take mp3s with bit rates
> greater than 128K as input and output 128K mp3s.  Does such a thing
> exist?

Lame should be able to take mp3s as input and generate mp3s.  But
remember you're going to lose quite a bit of quality, as lame will try
and encode the artifacts on the first mp3, plus add its own as it tries
to lower the bitrate.  Don't re-encode unless you need to play them on
something that simply can't handle the higher bitrate.


-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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