Music Question!

[gussy1]

I have a lot of music (mp3 and wma) on my system. I am starting to run a little low on space and with the emmergance of the new mp3PRO algorithm, I thought that I might be able to convert (downsample!) all my existing music to mp3PRO.
Is there an easy way to do this or must I get all the original cd's and go from scratch?


Cheers

 

[legend2b4]

go get a nice big hard drive 80+ and copy your mp3 to it

the convert works fine untill you try and play them some interesting noise

 

[naiku]

Or if you have a CD burner then just copy a bunch to CD, frees up the space and also backs up the music so you don't have to worry about losing it.

 

[gargouille]

Apart from being a little slower, you could alternately compress the drive they're on.

 

[lwolfc]

Toss on a USB 2.0 HDD
Makes drive management AND mp3 management a proverbial piece o cake

 

[rstitzel]

I had the same problem and added a firewire hdd. But USB 2 would work just as well. I would NOT compress the current hard drive. Your MP3 files are already in a compressed format and you won't get much if any free disk space.

 

[gargouille]

Perfect point, rstitzel, I obviously wasn't thinking when I posted!
There is another way, however, You can adjust the bitrate of the MP3 file. If the input is from a CD (44.1khz,
16-bit samples) and the MP3 was encoded at 128kbps (what most people encode at), you could get the wav file back off the CD, and compress it with a lower bitrate (112kbps, 96kbps, 80kbps, 64kbps, etc...). This may reduce quality, but everything costs something, doesn't it?!