[slim] Re: MP3 Conversion Software

2007-01-10 Thread Mark Lanctot
Perhaps I may be wrong here, but I'm not sure this is such a good idea. Won't you be compounding compression artifacts by re-compressing an already-compressed file? Again, I may be wrong on this. -- Mark Lanctot Mark

[slim] Re: MP3 Conversion Software

2007-01-10 Thread aubuti
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

[slim] Re: MP3 Conversion Software

2007-01-10 Thread cliveb
aubuti;168999 Wrote: 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 need to do that. Just load the 320kbps