Resample MP3

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Elmira

What do you knowledgeable people recommend as a program to resample mp3 from
360kbps down to 128. I have MP3 Workshop which works great except that it
doesn't keep the ID tags on the new file and that is important to me.
Thanks a lot!
 
What do you knowledgeable people recommend as a program to resample mp3 from
360kbps down to 128. I have MP3 Workshop which works great except that it
doesn't keep the ID tags on the new file and that is important to me.
Thanks a lot!
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My favorite is CDEX. Just drag your fat MP3's and drop them on CDEX, and
press "Encode". It will then re-sample them. It just happens to be set to
128 KB by default. CDEX uses the Lame encoder, and it sounds great.

CDEX has never messed with my ID3 tags.

Bob

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Elmira said:
What do you knowledgeable people recommend as a program to resample mp3 from
360kbps down to 128. I have MP3 Workshop which works great except that it
doesn't keep the ID tags on the new file and that is important to me.
Thanks a lot!
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I would recommend Winlame (http://winlame.sf.net) . Unfortunately, the
developer hasn't updated it for some time, but still it's a great
software.
 
What do you knowledgeable people recommend as a program to resample
mp3 from 360kbps down to 128. I have MP3 Workshop which works great
except that it doesn't keep the ID tags on the new file and that is
important to me. Thanks a lot!
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The best thing to do would be just re-rip and re-encode at the lower
bitrate.

The mp3 format is a *lossy* format, so an mp3 originally encoded at 360
then downsampled to 128 is going to be of poorer quality than one encoded
directly to 128.

If you don't care, then I guess it's not important.

Regardless, CDex and EAC are two wonderful freeware audio apps. Google
'em.
 
What do you knowledgeable people recommend as a program to resample
mp3 from 360kbps down to 128. I have MP3 Workshop which works great
except that it doesn't keep the ID tags on the new file and that is
important to me. Thanks a lot!
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Do yourself a favor and do NOT re-encode your MP3s to 128. You'll be sorry
later.

Use CDex and re-encode them to VBR with max at 256 and min at 128. You'll
get smaller files retaining most of the fidelity.
 
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