mp3 help

Shite-puss · 28th February 2006, 07:15 PM

does anyone know any way of changing the size of an mp3?

humndislocation · 28th February 2006, 07:21 PM

What do you mean change the size? Do you mean the file size, or the length?

Either way is probably a bad idea. It's generally not a good thing to change mp3s, because any change you make will have to be recompressed, and lower the quality even further

Shite-puss · 28th February 2006, 07:50 PM

i need to change the file size of some mp3's so they can fit on my webspace

humndislocation · 28th February 2006, 08:07 PM

Dunno what program you'd use to do it on a mac, but if I were doing it on a PC, I'd use CDEx to convert the mp3 to a wav file, then convert the wav file back to mp3 with a lower bitrate. (experiment by starting off at 128kbps, and go lower and lower until the file size is acceptable)

Ideally though, you'd want to just convert the original .wav files to an mp3 with a lower bitrate than the original mp3 files. If you convert an mp3 to wav, and then back to mp3 again, you'll incurr the quality loss from compression twice, and the mp3's won't sound as good.

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28th February 2006, 07:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
humndislocation Hardcore is serious guys Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dundee Posts: 5,996 Band: Blasphemous Necrorapist	What do you mean change the size? Do you mean the file size, or the length? Either way is probably a bad idea. It's generally not a good thing to change mp3s, because any change you make will have to be recompressed, and lower the quality even further

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Shite-puss Moderator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Dundee city centre Posts: 2,340	i need to change the file size of some mp3's so they can fit on my webspace

28th February 2006, 08:07 PM	#4 (permalink)
humndislocation Hardcore is serious guys Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dundee Posts: 5,996 Band: Blasphemous Necrorapist	Dunno what program you'd use to do it on a mac, but if I were doing it on a PC, I'd use CDEx to convert the mp3 to a wav file, then convert the wav file back to mp3 with a lower bitrate. (experiment by starting off at 128kbps, and go lower and lower until the file size is acceptable) Ideally though, you'd want to just convert the original .wav files to an mp3 with a lower bitrate than the original mp3 files. If you convert an mp3 to wav, and then back to mp3 again, you'll incurr the quality loss from compression twice, and the mp3's won't sound as good.