Any suggestions? Need it mainly for converting mp3s from one bit rate to another.

Thanks.

iTunes?

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Originally posted by Gauss Any suggestions? Need it mainly for converting mp3s from one bit rate to another. Thanks.

if you are doing bitrate conversion well it's just plain stupid to do because of generation loss, compression artifact etc.


Use Lame.

more info here:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index...and_source_code

if that's too much for you to handle just get Lame 3.97 and get winlame to do your conversions.

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Originally posted by RJT iTunes?

worst codecs ever

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Originally posted by jdat if you are doing bitrate conversion well it's just plain stupid to do because of generation loss, compression artifact etc.

I usually convert 2xx kbps VBR to 192 kbps, that way there are no losses, right?

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Originally posted by Gauss I usually convert 2xx kbps VBR to 192 kbps, that way there are no losses, right?

you are going from one lossless format to another so there's always going to be some form of degradation and I don't mean just lower quality because it's a lower bit rate.


A file directly ripped to 192 kbps will sound better than a file ripped to 224 and then converted to 192 ....


but really I bet you don't care if you're doing this .. btw why are you doing this?

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Originally posted by jdat btw why are you doing this?

I'm having problems cutting VBR mp3 files so I convert them to the closest quality (usually 192 kbps) and then cut them.

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Originally posted by jdat you are going from one lossless format to another so there's always going to be some form of degradation and I don't mean just lower quality because it's a lower bit rate. A file directly ripped to 192 kbps will sound better than a file ripped to 224 and then converted to 192 .... but really I bet you don't care if you're doing this .. btw why are you doing this?

Truth spoken...^^^

Your best bet, is to sacrifice some hard drive space, and RE-encode your existing MP3s to 320kbps, and save your future files to 192kbps.

Lame or CDex are good choices.

Last edited by EXTREMUM on Oct-26-2006 at 21:22

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Originally posted by Konijn dbpoweramp

also a very good choice but it isn't free unfortunately

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Originally posted by Konijn dbpoweramp

+999, have been using this for a long time. good program!

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