MP3 compression?

[strawberryman]

Anyone know any good ways to majorly compress MP'3s?
'Twould be of great help if someone did.

[NM]

MP3's are already compressed, the only way to get the file size down is to reduce the bit rate, but then you'll lose quality.

[crono_logical]

Personally, I'd say no, don't compress MP3s, like NM said, they're already compressed, and doing anything more to them to make it smaller makes it even worse quality. If you must have them smaller, use the original full-quality source e.g. CD or other lossless format image, and make them from there.

[rubah]

on the off chance you have music match jukebox, you can use the File/Convert tab to convert between two mp3 types. and I think you can set it to lower than 128kbps.

Just don't expect it to sound pretty.

[strawberryman]

Eh. Did'nt figure as much. I'm not exactly a computer ace, and i know even little about sound files. I should just leave them alone, lest I screw something up.

[Yrkoon]

if ur looking to get more tunes on a mp3 player u might like to try out acoustica mp3 to wave converter and tell it to do wma at 64k bitrate it frees up space an they sound ok

[HybridFan]

MP3pro is a nifty compression format that at 64kbps sound like 128kbps normal MP3's. I prefer ogg though it sounds really good at 96kbps although most jukeboxes don't play this format.

[rion]

HybridFan is right. I use ogg files for my SmartPhone because I have only 256 Memory Card, it only holds 60+ songs, but with ogg, I can hold up two times 2 using 64 Kbps compression. 64 kbps is still good when you convert it from the Original Source. Mp3Pro is also nice.

remember that it's not good if you convert a Mp3 to Mp3pro or Mp3 to ogg.


by the way, you can download Vorbis encoders ogg here:

vorbis.com

Mp3Pro is with MusicmatchJ ukebox or Adobe Audition 1.5

Musicmatch


Edit by cl_out: Use the edit button and don't double post please.

[DMKA]

I would tell you .ogg is an amazing compression format, giving you perfect quality at about half the size of MP3s, but I may get banned by a staff member who prefers MP3 over OGG.

[Samuraid]

At least one staff member prefers Ogg over MP3...