which app for compressing mp3s?

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antonioconte

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I need to compress a load of mp3's, downsample them so the files are much smaller for web usage. I use Cleaner6 but its soooo slow! anything else quicker out there?

Thanks
 
I'm after an app that downsamples from 44.1khz down to something lower so I can get the file size down, not a peer to peer file sharing app like the one you've suggested

"BitTorrent is a P2P file swarming application. This means that as soon as you have downloaded a few chunks of a file it will start uploading it to others, thereby spreading the file better. Install the client to be able to download from BitTorrent. "

thanks anyway ;-)
 
I'm a fan of LAME and a custom perl script, but iTunes is easier. :)

Just set the Import preferences to whatever you want to encode the files to. Then add the files to a playlist, select them, and hit "Convert Selection To MP3" from the Advanced menu.

Keep in mind that creating MP3s from MP3s will result in a file of pure crap. It's a much better idea to just encode the original to the quality you want.
 
If you have the original song files, you're in luck. If not, I hope crappy sound quality is to be expected from the quality of the MP3 files.
 
MP3's and JPEG's are the same kind of files, only they store different data (well, in a way they are). They both take an uncompressed picture/sound file and compress it in a way that saves space with some loss of quality. JPEG's use algorithms to alter the different patterns that will make up a picture, and MP3's selectively throw out little bits of data that aren't completely necessary. However, making a JPEG/MP3 out of another JPEG/MP3 compounds the compression so that you end up throwing out more data than you would like, and you end up with crap.

You've probably seen plenty of bad pictures online, not because of the content, but because they were full of artifacts. The same goes with MP3's.
 
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