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         |  pomme de terre
             from obscure body in the SK System on 2003-07-31 10:56 [#00802433] Points: 11943 Status: Moderator | Show recordbag
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 | hey i just bought a little mp3 player and im trying to cram as much music on it as possible (without sounding like
 shit).
 
 most of my mp3s are 192k. are there any pgms out there that
 will drop my quality in bulk so i dont have to re-save each
 file one at a time?
 
 
 
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         |  fleetmouse
             from Horny for Truth on 2003-07-31 11:12 [#00802459] Points: 18042 Status: Lurker
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 | Here's what I'd do - load up the files you want in a playlist in Winamp, then select Nullsoft disk writer as the
 output, decode them to wav en masse, then use some drag 'n'
 drop tool like RazorLame to re-encode them to 128k.
 
 You will lose some quality this way, but the mp3 spec
 doesn't support bitrate-peeling like Ogg Vorbis so I guess
 there's no other way.
 
 
 
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         |  ziggomatic
             from ??....uv ajed...deja vu....?? on 2003-07-31 12:25 [#00802551] Points: 2523 Status: Lurker
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 | how much does your mp3 player hold, i'm just curious......?? 
 
 
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         |  mappatazee
             from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2003-07-31 12:31 [#00802556] Points: 14302 Status: Lurker
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 | Mpeg suite can change bitrates for you, that's what i have
 it's freeware
 
 
 
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         |  pomme de terre
             from obscure body in the SK System on 2003-07-31 12:35 [#00802559] Points: 11943 Status: Moderator | Followup to ziggomatic: #00802551 | Show recordbag
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 | it has 64meg onboard, but im gonna get a 512mb sd card for it.
 
 
 
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         |  ecnadniarb
             on 2003-07-31 12:35 [#00802561] Points: 24805 Status: Lurker | Show recordbag
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 | You can use Wavelab to do Batch processing, I am sure other audio packages let you do it as well.
 
 
 
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         |  Spikee Dragon
             from Newcastle (United Kingdom) on 2003-07-31 12:52 [#00802577] Points: 4179 Status: Regular
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 | I use easy CD-DA extractor 5.0 from www.poikosoft.com to convert a list of mp3 files to high qual 112kbs (using lame)
 you can't tell the diff unless it's metal really. i get
 quite a few on my player that way.
 
 
 
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         |  mc_303_beatz
             from Glasgow, Scotland on 2003-07-31 12:56 [#00802585] Points: 3386 Status: Regular
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 | Um use analogx MP3 encoder its well tasty. ACM wave convert 
 
 
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         |  ziggomatic
             from ??....uv ajed...deja vu....?? on 2003-07-31 13:10 [#00802599] Points: 2523 Status: Lurker | Followup to pomme de terre: #00802559
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 | yeah, mine's got 64 meg, too.  i can fit all of ICBYD on there at 128 kbps. at best.
 
 i'm also looking to get a memory card for it too.
 
 
 
 
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         |  kochlear
             from aud-stim.com on 2003-07-31 13:48 [#00802669] Points: 2311 Status: Addict
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 | Easy Audio File Converter (included with CDDA extractor) 
 download an old version off kazaa so you don't have to worry
 about the expiration date.  i have ver 4.6.9
 
 
 
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         |  handoverthecart
             on 2003-07-31 13:55 [#00802682] Points: 2017 Status: Lurker
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 | i have something called db poweramp music convertor.  it comes with mp3 (lame) and wav, but you can also download
 codecs for other formats.  i don't know if its any good, but
 its what i use and it is free i think.
 
 
 
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         |  OK
             on 2003-07-31 18:13 [#00802980] Points: 4791 Status: Lurker
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 | use a plugin for winamp like lamemp3 writer (i think that's what  it's called) and select a lower bitrate in the
 configuration and do as fleet said but without making wav
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         |  corticalstim
             from Canada on 2003-07-31 18:23 [#00802991] Points: 3885 Status: Regular
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 | cool edit pro 2. 0 does batch file conversions - this should be fine for your needs :)
 
 
 
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         |  fleetmouse
             from Horny for Truth on 2003-07-31 21:00 [#00803100] Points: 18042 Status: Lurker | Followup to OK: #00802980
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 | Wah! That's too cool. I installed the file writer Winamp plugin, told it where my lame.exe was and a few
 seconds later I had created a 128k file from a VBR one. Too
 cool. I'm gonna use this a lot to downsample the VBR files
 from EMusic so I can play them on my mp3 boombox (goddamn
 thing won't read VBR files). Thanks! Much more efficient
 than making wavs first.
 
 
 
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         |  Inverted Whale
             from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2003-07-31 21:09 [#00803107] Points: 3301 Status: Lurker
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 | for file in `cat myplaylist.m3u` ; do > lame --silent --alt-preset cbr 128 $file small-${file}
 > done
 
 
 
 
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         |  fleetmouse
             from Horny for Truth on 2003-07-31 21:22 [#00803131] Points: 18042 Status: Lurker | Followup to Inverted Whale: #00803107
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 | Even cooler - I didn't realize Lame could take an mp3 as input. I figured the file writer plugin was sending it a
 stream of wav data.
 
 
 
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