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kid astronaut · 03-09-2005, 04:20 PM

hey all. don't know if this question has been answered before, but if it has i have no idea how to search it.

my brother just sent me his band's cd, which i appreciate, but the thing is that all the songs in it were encoded at 320 kbps. while this sounds great, it takes up a ton of space, and i personally don't hear that much of a difference between 320 and, say, 192 kbps.

so my question is, is there any good way (besides burning it to a cd and ripping it back) to cut down the sampling rate?

also, if there is some sort of special process that does this-- will it resample the sound and encode it again, or will it just "skim" the extra kbps from the top?

or, to put it another way, if i encoded a song from a cd to 192 kbps, then re-encoded it to 128, then re-encoded it to 64, would that sound worse or the same as if i had just encoded it to 64 kpbs originally?

03-09-2005, 04:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
kid astronaut Tilted Location: Portland, OR	reencoding mp3s hey all. don't know if this question has been answered before, but if it has i have no idea how to search it. my brother just sent me his band's cd, which i appreciate, but the thing is that all the songs in it were encoded at 320 kbps. while this sounds great, it takes up a ton of space, and i personally don't hear that much of a difference between 320 and, say, 192 kbps. so my question is, is there any good way (besides burning it to a cd and ripping it back) to cut down the sampling rate? also, if there is some sort of special process that does this-- will it resample the sound and encode it again, or will it just "skim" the extra kbps from the top? or, to put it another way, if i encoded a song from a cd to 192 kbps, then re-encoded it to 128, then re-encoded it to 64, would that sound worse or the same as if i had just encoded it to 64 kpbs originally?