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Compressing music

  • 07-02-2007 9:37pm
    #1
    Trip Hazard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭


    Ok heres the thing I have a 20Gb iRiver H320 and its full, with only a little less than 3000 songs. most of the music I ripped straight from CD using Windows media player, some are MP3 some are WMA files.

    What I want to know is, is there anyway I can compress the files so I can put more music on it, without having to re-rip any CDs.

    Cheers
    Trip


Comments

  • #2
    leche solara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭leche solara


    You could recompress them using dbpoweramp to a lower bitrate, but if you go too low quality will suffer.


  • #3
    Trip Hazard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭Trip Hazard


    Yeah thats the thing I dont want the quialty to suffer that much. Do I need a certain software can I not just do it though windows


  • #4
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    You're always going to lose a significant amount of quality when your source is already some sort of lossy compression (MP3, WMA, whatever) no matter what you do.

    It's like copying VHS tapes - the result always ends up being wobblier and fuzzier than it already was :)


  • #5
    pleasant Co.
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 7,423 Mod ✭✭✭✭pleasant Co.


    zilog_jones wrote:
    You're always going to lose a significant amount of quality when your source is already some sort of lossy compression (MP3, WMA, whatever) no matter what you do.

    It's like copying VHS tapes - the result always ends up being wobblier and fuzzier than it already was :)

    That, in all honesty, depends on the bitrates of the source lossy files and the ears of the person listening and if you are going from like to like or not. it is safe to say that most people cannot tell the difference between source wav files and 160kbs mp3


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