Rohdekill Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I have a harddrive full of ripped MP3's - all ripped at maximum quality. Is there a (free) program that one could recommend that can re-rip at lower quality and place in a second drive for use on mobile devices limited on space? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Eddo89 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Just cionvert them? I use a program called "Format Factory" that is free but there are hundreds of them out there and some could be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 protocol7 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 foobar2000 can do this (I use it to rip to aac for my phone). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Rohdekill Posted December 23, 2011 Author Share Posted December 23, 2011 Thanks. I didn't see an option in WMP to convert. I'll try these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Reacon Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Converting lossy files (like MP3's) results in a loss of quality regardless of whether or not the bitrate is less. Just putting that out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Rohdekill Posted December 23, 2011 Author Share Posted December 23, 2011 Converting lossy files (like MP3's) results in a loss of quality regardless of whether or not the bitrate is less. Just putting that out there. Thanks for mentioning that. I suppose I could just dig up the boxes of CD's and just rip them all again. It takes longer, but at least they will sound better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 lars77 Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Reacon is right.. honestly if you're going to spend time converting your music to something lower quality you may as well have your music ripped as something lossless in the first place & then convert them for your mobile devices as lower quality mp3s when you need to. In your current situation you're really going from lossy to even more lossy...yuck. In any case you can definitely do batch file conversions with Foobar2000 easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sorlag Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 I use Freemake Audio Converter for audio and Freemake Video Converter for video conversion. Really nice, powerfull tools that even use the GPU to speed things up. They support several codecs and presets for mobile devices and things like facebook or youtube, with direct upload and so on. http://www.freemake.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pam14160 Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 I use Adobe Audition CS5. The good thing is with Audition you can enhance the mp3 file to help bring back some of the quality you lose why converting. I am sure there are other problems that do the same. Audition cost, however Adobe will give you a full working copy for trial purposes (30 days). Audtion is the end result of Adobes buy out of Trillion which produced Cool Edite 2000 and Cool Edite Pro (which I still have on an old DVD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I have a harddrive full of ripped MP3's - all ripped at maximum quality. Is there a (free) program that one could recommend that can re-rip at lower quality and place in a second drive for use on mobile devices limited on space?
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