Reducing Bit Rate [Archive]

caveman

23-07-2003, 18:46

Is there a way to reduce the bit rate of a file. I always copy albums to MP at 192 Kbps, and will only DL at least 160Kbps.
I have just DL an Albumwrap at supposedly 770kbps (each track 10mb). I would like to store these on Win MP but at 192 if possible. Is there software to convert down to the smaller bit rate.

Richard M

23-07-2003, 18:48

Windows Sound Recorder can do this.
Load in the file, then go to File > Properties then convert it there.
Then, just Save As.

caveman

23-07-2003, 18:52

I should have said they are MP3 files. Windown Sound Recorder only deals with WAV

Richard M

23-07-2003, 18:56

Mine doesn't.
I can choose between ogg, mp3, wav and loads of others. :confused:
I'm running XP Pro.

caveman

23-07-2003, 19:02

XP Home supports WAV only

Stuart

23-07-2003, 20:13

I'm running XP Pro, and Sound Recorder is limited to Wavs.

You can select those codecs so that the Wav is encoded with them, but it is still a wav.

jellybaby

23-07-2003, 21:15

Download this (http://download.com.com/3000-2140_4-10215789.html?tag=just_in) . It can do most formats and increase or reduce bitrates. I love it :)

ntluser

23-07-2003, 21:16

Originally posted by scastle
I'm running XP Pro, and Sound Recorder is limited to Wavs.

You can select those codecs so that the Wav is encoded with them, but it is still a wav.

Use Musicmatch to convert the MP3s to WAVs and then load the WAVs into Windows Sound Recorder, Press the 'change' button, select the WAV format you want to save it in, name your file (or leave the name as it is) and press save.

You can then use Musicmatch to change it back to MP3 but at a lower bit rate so you save bits as well as hard drive space.

I often use this process to switch between mono and stereo ( and vice versa) and different bit sizes to improve or reduce music quality or reduce file sizes for storage or sending over the internet as e-mail attachments.

Hope this helps.

Dupre

23-07-2003, 21:22

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

best thing ive found for converting music on the fly, has a nice popup feature in Explorer shows all the compression info, ratio, %, bitrate, codec used... that kinda thing.

takes some patience to install all the codecs, but once its on, will do any file type you want :-D even monkey!

it removes most codecs from initial install (has mp3 as standard) because of all the proprietry codecs around.

caveman

23-07-2003, 22:12

Thanks installed the dB without any codecs and it did the trick

Dupre

24-07-2003, 00:39

np :) what do you think of the explorer extensions? the popup that shows all the files info, i found it shows MPEG movie info too.