mp3 bitrate converter

bird603568 · 07-09-2006, 08:12 AM

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

Lenard · 07-09-2006, 08:19 AM

Try this (it does take some additional packages however);

http://www.mbox.wz.cz/index.html

Randux · 07-09-2006, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by bird603568

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.

bird603568 · 07-09-2006, 08:49 AM

thats what i want but it segfaults now how do i uninstall this crap?

Randux · 07-09-2006, 09:01 AM

Can you be more specific?

bird603568 · 07-09-2006, 09:09 AM

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

Lenard · 07-09-2006, 09:42 AM

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

MS3FGX · 07-09-2006, 11:10 AM

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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.

Randux · 07-10-2006, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by MS3FGX

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.

bird603568 · 08-13-2006, 09:52 PM

i uninstalled it and reinstalled it and it still has it as demo running out is there a work around?

rickh · 08-13-2006, 10:56 PM

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.