Resamping Mp3s To Lower Bit Rate

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Ok - before anyone mentions.. "I know it will mean lower quality than a fresh rip".

 

However, I wanted to re-sample my MP3's, so I could listen to them at work, its also handy to fit more onto a memory stick/small mp3 player for personal listening.

It currently encodes to 128kbps, variable bit-rate, and is over 1/2 the file size of the normal 320kbps files.

Using Opera Ignite (google for details), I can stream my music to my desktop PC in the office.

 

I wrote this a few months ago, but thought it may be worth passing around.

 

I couldn't find a decent tool to do this; CDex will, but it would only do it manually per folder - as far as I could tell anyway, and the other tools I looked at would not recursively do a batch recode..

 

 

To that end, I coded a quick script to take a root folder of music, and re-encode to a different folder.

Currently, it doesn't keep the ID3 tags, which isn't a big issue for my needs, but I'll look into preserving these somehow.

The ID3 tags are lost, as LAME (the MP3 de/encoder library) is not retaining them.

It does take ages to run (hours/days), but once complete, it won't over-write any existing files in the target folder. Its only a single-threaded script, so you can minimise the window and work as normal.

 

If anyone thinks this is of interest, reply and I'll .zip it up.

 

 

Cheers,

Jason

 

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TuneBite would have done the job for you, bit late now I suspect though. :shrug:

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TuneBite would have done the job for you, bit late now I suspect though. :shrug:

 

I did look around at the time, not wanting to re-invent the wheel etc :wall: ..

I didn't see/try TuneBite (I was looking at opensource/freeware), but the others didn't appear to scan down folders- ie, only work on a single folder.

 

I'll look at TuneBite, I think they have a trial. It would be good to preserve ID3 tags (although I could extract/insert via another library..)

 

Thanks for the info - I should have asked before jumping in with code.