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Is there away to reduce mp3 file size by reducing the frequency?

Started by Burty Feb 9, 2005 at 4:53 PM 1 replies 1.1k views

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Feb 9, 2005 at 4:53 PM

I have a load of mp3 and a P900 with a about 40mb of mem space left on it so I can keep some mp3s on it to listen to while traveling about. I also have a mini disk and when moving the mp3's across to it, it gives me 3 options for sound quality with the best quality using a bigger file and the worst producing a smaller file. Can this be applied to mp3 files also? As I would like to shrink my mp3's so I can get more on my phone! Thanks for the advice! B

Monder

Feb 9, 2005 at 4:58 PM

Well you can use lower-bitrate MP3s which will take up less space but sound worse. If you wanted to shrink your existing MP3s you'd need to re-encode them. You should be able to find some utilites to do this with Google.

Drew_Benton

Feb 9, 2005 at 5:08 PM

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Original post by Monder
Well you can use lower-bitrate MP3s which will take up less space but sound worse. If you wanted to shrink your existing MP3s you'd need to re-encode them. You should be able to find some utilites to do this with Google.

One tool that is very popular is CDex. All you have to do is set the settings in the Options, then go to Convert->Re-encode Compressed Audio Files. After you select them, that's it! You can lower the bitrate to 128 and it will make small files around 3-4mb (depending on length) and still have a good quality. 96 would give a small sacrific of quality, but they will be much smaller. 64 will be very small but sound horrible. 32 is out of the question...

- Drew

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