Hi: I have downloaded some .mp3 files that don't play correctly on my portable Sandisk MP3 player. What is the easiest way using Linux programs to resample the files to a higher bitrate (I think that might fix it, as higher bitrate files play fine). Thanks. -- _____________________ Christopher R. Carlen crobc@bogus-remove-me.sbcglobal.net SuSE 9.1 Linux 2.6.5
On Saturday 16 April 2005 3:16 pm, Chris Carlen wrote:
What is the easiest way using Linux programs to resample the files to a higher bitrate (I think that might fix it, as higher bitrate files play fine).
Use lame to decode and encode. To decode, for example: lame --decode yourFile.mp3 To encode: lame -b 192 yourFile.wav yourFile.mp3 and that should create a a file with a 192 Kbps bit rate. Jorge
Chris Carlen wrote:
Hi:
I have downloaded some .mp3 files that don't play correctly on my portable Sandisk MP3 player.
What is the easiest way using Linux programs to resample the files to a higher bitrate (I think that might fix it, as higher bitrate files play fine).
You need to fill in the blanks before resampling; convert back to .wav and then resample at the desired rate. Results may or may not be acceptable to you, because of course, you are merely guessing at the extra data needed to get a higher bitrate. If its classical music, you probably won't be satisfied, but if it's rock that's just noise anyway, so it probably doesn't matter. :-)
Chris, On Saturday 16 April 2005 12:16, Chris Carlen wrote:
Hi:
I have downloaded some .mp3 files that don't play correctly on my portable Sandisk MP3 player.
What is the easiest way using Linux programs to resample the files to a higher bitrate (I think that might fix it, as higher bitrate files play fine).
Recoding MP3's often produces unsatisfying results. It's a complicated, lossy compression scheme that exploits "psychoacoustic modeling" (i.e., it takes advantage of the idiosyncracies of human hearing) and taking what comes out of MP3 decoding and trying to compress it or encode it again in another (or the same) lossy compressor creates all sorts of unpleasant-sounding artifacts. Does your player support FLAC? If it does, you could decode the MP3 to linear PCM (a.k.a., WAV) and the compress it with FLAC. FLAC is lossless (that's the L in FLAC--Free Lossless Audio Codec) so it does not compress as well as MP3, Ogg or one of the proprietary formats.
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Christopher R. Carlen
Randall Schulz
Jorge Fábregas wrote:
On Saturday 16 April 2005 3:16 pm, Chris Carlen wrote:
What is the easiest way using Linux programs to resample the files to a higher bitrate (I think that might fix it, as higher bitrate files play fine).
Use lame to decode and encode. To decode, for example:
lame --decode yourFile.mp3
To encode:
lame -b 192 yourFile.wav yourFile.mp3
and that should create a a file with a 192 Kbps bit rate.
Jorge
Thanks, this does the job just fine. Good day! -- _____________________ Christopher R. Carlen crobc@bogus-remove-me.sbcglobal.net SuSE 9.1 Linux 2.6.5
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