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Bitrate conversion software

shaystyler · 2005-06-11 17:30:12

Hey everybody, Anyone know any good FREE bitrate conversion software, music I have downloaded is all different eg 128,192kbps etc I want to have them all the same basically, Any help is appreciated, Shaystyler. www.illustriousworks.com

11-06-2005 5:30pm

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shaystyler

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Hey everybody,

Anyone know any good FREE bitrate conversion software, music I have downloaded is all different eg 128,192kbps etc I want to have them all the same basically,

Any help is appreciated,

Shaystyler.

www.illustriousworks.com

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#2 11-06-2005 5:39pm

snappieT

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CDex, you can get it from www.download.com

And there's no point in re-encoding 128kbps music upto 192kbps. It'll take up more space, but you'll get no extra quality.

CDex is freeware.

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#3 11-06-2005 5:46pm

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You'll get less quality, don't do it unless you want to encode the higher bitrate to a lower bit-rate.

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#4 11-06-2005 5:50pm

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try HERE, or

www.dbpoweramp.com

Built for exactly this task.

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#5 11-06-2005 6:15pm

Makaveli

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Generally transcoding == bad.
As said it's a waste of time converting a lower bitrate mp3 to higher one.

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#6 11-06-2005 8:07pm

aaf

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Re-rip all your cd's using EAC . It's the best bar none for ripping to MP3 and other formats

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#7 11-06-2005 8:23pm

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Just to hammer it home:
Each time you encode something in mp3 you loose information. Even encoding something from 128kbps to 128kbps (or higher) can potentially result in a loss of quality.

If you have a 128kbps mp3 and you want it at 192kbps, you will need to encode it from the original (the CD).

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