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Apple Kodondo Level: 38 Posts: 553/594 EXP: 350163 For next: 20284 Since: 03-27-04 From: Washington. Since last post: 264 days Last activity: 152 days |
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| I was wondering if there is a program or something that makes MP3's smaller in size. | |||
Garmichael Octoballoon Level: 21  Posts: 156/166 EXP: 47489 For next: 2454 Since: 06-27-04 From: Bremerton, Wa Since last post: 316 days Last activity: 113 days |
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| About the only thing you could do is resample them. Theres tons of programs on Download.com that help you do that. However, resampleing them means that you're reducing the Bitrate, wich means you're also reducing the quality of the song. The less bitrate you go, the less quality and the less physical size it takes up. If you need to make an mp3 smaller so you can send it to a cell phone as a ring tone or something like that, then play with the quality and bitrape. If youre trying to make it smaller so you have more room on your harddrive or ipod, then i woudlnt reccomend resampling at all. |
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MathOnNapkins Math n' Hacks Level: 67  Posts: 1056/2189 EXP: 2495887 For next: 96985 Since: 03-18-04 From: Base Tourian Since last post: 1 hour Last activity: 32 min. |
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| Well, considering that 128 (whatever unit it is) MP3s, which are the minimum bitrate for satisfactory playback, are already heavily compressed, you would be hard put to compress it even further. You can only target so much redundancy in a set of information. It might be 196 that is the minimum, but I can't remember at this time. You won't get any additional quality at higher bitrates. I've heard that other formats will tend to yield smaller file sizes. .wma (windows media audio) in particular. You might be able to convert them to save space, if that's what your only concern is. |
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Abnormal Freak Blackwater tea Level: 31  Posts: 184/364 EXP: 169629 For next: 15734 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 min. |
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| Switch to OGGs. Sound better, take up less hard drive space. | |||
drjayphd Beamos What's that spell? pimp! Level: 56  Posts: 758/1477 EXP: 1387410 For next: 10766 Since: 03-15-04 From: CT Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| AF's got it. All you can really do is resample or change compression formats. If you were so inclined, I'm actually satisfied with Apple's AAC compression (M4P extension). Can't say anything about other formats, though. | |||
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Apple Kodondo Level: 38 Posts: 554/594 EXP: 350163 For next: 20284 Since: 03-27-04 From: Washington. Since last post: 264 days Last activity: 152 days |
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| The only reason why I was looking for one is because I have a very small harddrive. 4.7 gigabytes can't hold much music, espically when the majority of the songs are 10 megabytes or more. I downloaded a program off of Download.com and just by converting my "Misc. Songs" folder MP3's to 112 kbps, it dropped from 724mb to 307mb  I can't really tell the difference in quality either so all I need to do now is to change the rest of my music |
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MathOnNapkins Math n' Hacks Level: 67 Posts: 1061/2189 EXP: 2495887 For next: 96985 Since: 03-18-04 From: Base Tourian Since last post: 1 hour Last activity: 32 min. |
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| Yeah that works. Or get a CD player that will play MP3s and burn them to CD-R. (Or DVD-R?) | |||
alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99  Posts: 1780/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by Abnormal Freak I swear by OGGs. I started converting all 3000 of my black metal songs before my harddrive had to be wiped. |
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macks Level: 45 Posts: 487/900 EXP: 659955 For next: 209 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 22 hours |
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| This fits better in Hardware/Software. And probably the only reason for using MP3's are that it's pretty much the standard for lossy formats, there are better formats out there. OGG being one of them, and a good one. |
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Acmlm Torosu heh Level: 51  Posts: 945/1173 EXP: 981994 For next: 31944 Since: 03-15-04 From: Somewhere that isn't outside of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada Since last post: 39 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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I use WinLAME to save/convert all my MP3's at 40-48kbps VBR (35% of 128kbps) with optimal settings and I don't need/want higher quality, but that's because I don't hear high frequencies very well and can cut them off  I do it mostly to save disk space too, although it's not nearly as much of a concern for me ... there's just no point wasting space with quality I can't hear  I'd use OGG if it was more widely supported, but I'm really not going to gain much from converting 40-48kbps MP3's into slightly smaller OGG's anyway (edited by Acmlm on 12-01-04 01:26 PM) |
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||bass Programmer Admin Level: 44  Posts: 120/817 EXP: 570813 For next: 40472 Since: 03-15-04 From: Salem, Connecticut Since last post: 26 days Last activity: 11 days |
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^ Disregard the above. Acmlm is deaf. Every mp3 he's ever sent me sounds like muffled farting.OGG VORBIS PEOPLEGet it... |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 2218/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| BEFORE ANYONE ASKS: No, you don't gain quality by resampling to a higher bit rate, thank you. ||bass, I'll switch when I can add support for it to both of my MP3 players for free. Originally posted by Garmichael  The T and P aren't even near eachother. Paging Dr Freud...(edited by HyperHacker on 12-01-04 01:46 PM) |
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macks Level: 45 Posts: 488/900 EXP: 659955 For next: 209 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 22 hours |
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Originally posted by ||bass Yes, Acmlm doesn't have good hearing. And he converts them because he can't hear the difference, not because he thinks no one else can  |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 2239/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Exactly, why should he use up extra HD space for the chance that he'll send you a file? When I write hacky little programs for things like hotkeys, I program them to work for MY computer, not yours. Same idea. |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 897/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| OGG is awesome... and I think the iPod supports it too Audacity will save stuff into OGG. audacity.sf.net |
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