[Sussex] MP3 recoding

[Paul Turner]

Dave Chapman wrote:

>On Sunday 31 July 2005 13:42, John Crowhurst wrote:
>  
>
>>On Sun, July 31, 2005 13:23, Dave Chapman said:
>>    
>>
>>>Does anyone know of an easy way of recoding mp3's to a lower bitrate.
>>>My boy has just got himself a new phone with a 64Mb memory card and wants
>>>to
>>>put some mp3's onit.
>>> Most of the mp3's we have are 128kbps so if we recode them as say 64kbps
>>>he
>>>will get more on and the quality would be fine for a phone.
>>>      
>>>
>>You could try lame:
>>
>>lame --decode filename.mp3 filename.wav
>>lame -b 64 filename.wav filename-64.mp3
>>    
>>
>
>That works.
>  
>
>>Or for every file in a directory:
>>
>>for i in *.mp3; do
>>  lame --decode $i.mp3 temp.wav
>>  lame -b 64 temp.wav $i-64.mp3
>>  rm -f temp.wav
>>done
>>    
>>
>
>This didn't
>"cant find filename.mp3.mp3"
>  
>

This script is wrong.  It should be:

for i in *.mp3; do
  lame --decode $i temp.wav
  lame -b 64 temp.wav $i-64.mp3
  rm -f temp.wav
done


Regards Paul.



>>--
>>John
>>    
>>
>
>
>But I have been poking around Amarok 1.3b and one of it's features is a script 
>manager
>
>Tools > Script Manager > Get More Scripts
>
>Get the Audio Format Converter and it will convert you current play list into 
>many different formats and quality presets or set you own ,my choice being 
>"-b 64"
>
>There's a "Transfer to media device" script as well.
>
>All in all a very able application.
>Hope others find it usefull.
>
>Dave
>
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