What software can edit bitrate?

slick_9191 · May 15th, 2006, 11:52 PM

I have songs on my hard drive that are all different bitrates (192, VBR, etc.). I want to convert them all to 128 in MP3 format. Some are WMA too... What software would be able to do this simply? Im using Roxio Media Creator 8 now, but its a long process of exporting and all this other bull. Any recommendations?

AFMAN10 · May 16th, 2006, 03:39 AM

Adobe Audition 1.5

slick_9191 · May 16th, 2006, 09:50 PM

thx man, ill try it....

AFMAN10 · May 17th, 2006, 09:00 AM

no prob... i just realised that Adobe Audition 2.0 is out, that has more fetures. but 1.5 will do what your asking for.

**Martoch** · May 17th, 2006, 09:08 AM

Audacity (great free audio editing program)
Check out the features page.

Welcome to TechIMO!!!

griobhta · May 17th, 2006, 01:20 PM

What you are looking to do is called 'transcoding' and when going from one lossy format to another (eg wma -> mp3), or even using the same codec (eg 192mp2 -> 128mp3) you will end up with a poorer quality sound file at the end than if you had encoded to the lower bitrate to start with. It is not reccommended and it really is not a good idea unless you absolutely have to.

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AFMAN10 · May 17th, 2006, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by griobhta

What you are looking to do is called 'transcoding' and when going from one lossy format to another (eg wma -> mp3), or even using the same codec (eg 192mp2 -> 128mp3) you will end up with a poorer quality sound file at the end than if you had encoded to the lower bitrate to start with. It is not reccommended and it really is not a good idea unless you absolutely have to.
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Well… how much quality will he lose? A noticeable amount? I’ve done a lot of transcending and never have I actually noticed a difference. I mean, I know it happens, but usually the human ear cant tell… unless you have really good hearing I suppose. But good point Griobhta, defiantly something to consider!

GameManK · May 17th, 2006, 08:37 PM

MusicMatch Jukebox will do it for you as well.

griobhta · May 17th, 2006, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by AFMAN10

Well… how much quality will he lose? A noticeable amount? I’ve done a lot of transcending and never have I actually noticed a difference. I mean, I know it happens, but usually the human ear cant tell… unless you have really good hearing I suppose. But good point Griobhta, defiantly something to consider!

It all depends on what the bitrate of the file you are using is before you transcode as well as the bitrate you are aiming for. to be honest i find that the disc space saved is rather minimal so i only do it if i am trying to get more songs on my phone. But i never delete the originals as the last factor is the system you are playing it on. tinny speakers or some of the weaker mp3 players are not going to tell much of a difference at all. What you need to think of is that as time goes by your system will probably improve in quality so if you plan to keep your mp3's try and keep them as original rips for the best quality.

I don't use lossy codec at all prefering to use a lossless one, FLAC at the moment. I cant be bothered re-ripping all my cd's everytime i update my speakers/soundcard.

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slick_9191 · May 17th, 2006, 09:57 PM

pfff, u dont lose a noticeable amount of sound quality, but that was not my reason for doing this. the higher the bitrate, the more memory used. I only have so much memory on my MP3 player and lowering all my sounds would saves a ton of memory. plus, not all my songs are 192bit, i have some techno songs that are 256bit and so on, and since the songs are so long its wasted memory on simple headphones. but i really do appreciate the feedback. that adobe audition is to big and complex of a program for im trying to do, although it does help for some songs (usually mp3'ed old songs) when bringing the average dB up (normalizing).