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Old 07-09-2006, 08:12 AM   #1
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mp3 bitrate converter


i know this might not be on topic but is there a program that i can convert my whole mp3 collection from 192kbs to 160? i know lame can do it but ill lose all my names and tags and i have a good size collection
 
Old 07-09-2006, 08:19 AM   #2
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Try this (it does take some additional packages however);

http://www.mbox.wz.cz/index.html
 
Old 07-09-2006, 08:42 AM   #3
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i know this might not be on topic but is there a program that i can convert my whole mp3 collection from 192kbs to 160? i know lame can do it but ill lose all my names and tags and i have a good size collection
One of the few things I keep Winbloze around for is mp3s. If you have bloze machine, look at dbpoweramp. It has a lot of great features. Or you might be able to run it with Wine. I haven't tried that.
 
Old 07-09-2006, 08:49 AM   #4
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thats what i want but it segfaults now how do i uninstall this crap?

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Old 07-09-2006, 09:01 AM   #5
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Can you be more specific?
 
Old 07-09-2006, 09:09 AM   #6
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im talking to lenard. his mbox doesnt have an uninstall. it segfaulted and now is polutiong my system :P
thats exactly what im looking for. now i gott wait 17 hours and im done
 
Old 07-09-2006, 09:42 AM   #7
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To bird603568;

So very sorry about mbox segfaulting on you (it does not on my system). As far as removing see; http://www.mbox.wz.cz/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7

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Old 07-09-2006, 11:10 AM   #8
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One of the few things I keep Winbloze around for is mp3s. If you have bloze machine, look at dbpoweramp. It has a lot of great features. Or you might be able to run it with Wine. I haven't tried that.
dBpowerAMP is one of those programs that is so simple and useful you can't live without, but somehow nobody seems to have created a Linux alternative to it.

I can report that it does work fine in WINE though, I use it very often on my desktop here. The interface looks a little crazy under WINE, and the initial file selection is very slow for some reason, but the actual conversion is plenty fast, and I don't recall ever having it crash on me while it was converting.
 
Old 07-10-2006, 11:38 AM   #9
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dBpowerAMP is one of those programs that is so simple and useful you can't live without, but somehow nobody seems to have created a Linux alternative to it.

I can report that it does work fine in WINE though, I use it very often on my desktop here. The interface looks a little crazy under WINE, and the initial file selection is very slow for some reason, but the actual conversion is plenty fast, and I don't recall ever having it crash on me while it was converting.
Thanks for letting us know it runs on Wine. That is good news.

I agree with you, it would be great if somebody would port the whole suite. I don't like any of the Linux music players (not meaning to start a thread on this topic) but at least the dbpoweramp conversions and codecs and all that great stuff would make life more simpler in Linux-land.
 
Old 08-13-2006, 09:52 PM   #10
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i uninstalled it and reinstalled it and it still has it as demo running out is there a work around?
 
Old 08-13-2006, 10:56 PM   #11
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You can use lame and keep all your filenames and tags

Study "man lame" and this sample script,
Code:
for file in resmp/*.mp3; do lame -V 2 "$file" "resmp/$file"; done
I'm not good at bash scripting, but if you post your question asking for help with a bash script to accomplish your needs, you'll get lots of help.
 
  


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