Resampling mp3s...

wavin

Anyone know of any program (pref freeware) that you can batch resample mp3's?

Ruu_Old

Err, i use Soundforge but im unsure if its freeware. Its a fantastic program.

wavin

Ruu wrote:

Err, i use Soundforge but im unsure if its freeware. Its a fantastic program.

can you do batch convert job with that?
i have SF 4.5

cheers

angelofdeath

i use dbpoweramp i have it installed ages though and i just seen something on the download page about trial license for mp3 encoder, not sure if that rules this out, but its very good

tman

easy cd-da extractor
not freeware, but the 30 day trial should do you.

its always best to make your own conversion preset with this, and set it to the highest quality (i'm not talking about bitrate here)

great little app

Mutant_Fruit

Can i ask why you're doing this?

Depending on how many mp3's you need done, you could write a little batch script (or make a quick program to do write it if you know how), and just run the script to send the mp3's to lame to resample.

Something along the lines of: lame -cbr 128 --resample 33800 infile.mp3 outfile.mp3 would be what you could use. Doublecheck its helpfile for more info. It might have a batch option built in to work on every mp3/wav in the directory.

radiospan

Do you mean resample (ie- change from say 44100Hz to 22050Hz) or do you mean change the bitrate (ie - from 192K to 64K or something) ?

tman

pffft.
everybody knows that resampling a 128k file to 320k makes it sound better

PiE

tman wrote:

pffft.
everybody knows that resampling a 128k file to 320k makes it sound better

Jesus did a similar thing when he converted water into wine.

Not sure what program he used tho, sorry,

el Bastardo

... or so someone said. Water to Guinness would be a wothwhile upgrade though!

I'd assume that the original poster meant changing the bit rate. Every music management program that I've used gives the option to downsize the mp3 files for use on stick-sized players. Musicmatch is one that springs to mind.

jayneemac

tman wrote:

pffft.
everybody knows that resampling a 128k file to 320k makes it sound better

mate when you compress a file (e.g. a wav to 128k mp3) there is certain information stipped out, and this is irreversible! it can't be magically put back by re-encoding to a higher bit rate.
you should avoid resampling or converting from one lossy format to another. re-rip the tracks & encode at a higher bitrate if at all possible...

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