Sure, it would be compounding the compression artifacts, but for playback on a laptop or iPod the loss in sound quality might not be that noticeable. Especially when weighed against the cost of re-ripping everything!
You need something like Robin Bowes' flac2mp3.pl perl script, except modified for mp3-2-mp3. You could take a look at his script to see how it traverses the directory structure, and instead of decoding with flac, decode with lame before re-encoding at the lower bitrate with lame. Of course, handling the tags would be completely different, too. Or try the brute force approach: Load your backup copy of the music library (you do have a backup, don't you?) into foobar2000, and convert all of them to 128. Then re-backup the 320kbps version after the conversion finishes. No doubt, there more elegant solutions out there, but I've never been accused of excessive elegance.... -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31513 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
