Compress Mp3 files

robo

I know I read it somewhere before about applications to compress mp3 files, so you can fit more songs on an MP3 player...does anyone have any recommendations of applications to use to do this as my sister has a 512MB Creative Nano Plus and would like to have as many songs on it as possible.

Asva

Mp3 files are highly compressed files. Just open the Mp3 files in any audio editing software, try this with FlexiMusic Wave Editor, in this save the Mp3 file using the “Save As” command. While using this command, it will ask for change in bit rate where you can change the bit rate (lower the bit rate) of the Mp3 files and can download these to the player. Can choose the bit rate from 32kbs to 320kbs but lower the bit-rate, higher the quality reduction. While opening and saving the Mp3 files many times, the quality will be reduced for each time. It is better to save the master audio file in normal audio format (*.Wav)

Ruu_Old

Pretty sure you can use Audacity for what you are trying to do, its free and works great.

maxitwist

creative, don't you get creative mediasource player with the player? if so that can do it for you

Bard

Just remember that what you gain in quantity, you will lost in quality, as dropping the bitrate of the files will drop the quality of the sound. I wouldn't recommend going much below 128Kbps.

maxitwist

Bard wrote:

Just remember that what you gain in quantity, you will lost in quality, as dropping the bitrate of the files will drop the quality of the sound. I wouldn't recommend going much below 128Kbps.

depends on the person and the band, I rip my music at 128, and download a very very few (I don't like downloading) anyway I downloaded its time to party by andrew w.k. and didn't think it sounding different at all but one day I just decided to check its info on my creative and it was at 80kbps.
it sounded just as good as it did at 128kbps when I bought the album

twanda

There should be a 'smart fit' function in the CReative software which can do that.

Steoob

if it can play AAC then i recommend it... 48kbps aac is the same quality of 128kbps mp3 at a third of the filespace

JC 2K3

^Third of the filespace? Same quality? I think not. :rolleyes:

Steoob

dont role your eyes if you dont know what you're talking about you obviously dont know anything about aac

JC 2K3

I do.

From wikipedia:

Depending on the AAC profile and the MP3 encoder, 96 kbit/s AAC can give nearly the same or better perceptional quality as 128 kbit/s MP3.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Modular_encoding

So, not quite three times smaller and it's also very variable depending on the type of music compressed.

Steoob

to the naked ear 48kbps m4a/aac sounds as good as 128kbps mp3

Makaveli

dbpoweramp can transcode your files for you easily.

48kbps may sound as good as 128kbps mp3, but 128kbps mp3 sounds bad anyway.

JC 2K3

^Agreed, 192kbps is my minimum limit these days, I generally encode at 320kbps.

I used to encode at 64kbps when I was 14 and had a 128MB mp3 player....