[Sussex] MP3 recoding

[John Crowhurst]

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

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

--
John