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...that'll convert the tracks and lower the bit rate just for the songs that you transfer to the 'pod whilst leaving your original collection intact? The nano's are very cool, but it'd be nice to fit just that little bit more on them, and as 99% of my tunes are mp3's encoded at at least 192 I'm using up more space that I need. Surely there must be some sort of app which will conver files on the fly to the ipod (where I'm not overly bothered by the bitrate and 128 will do fine). I know iTunes can do this for the shuffle, but not for any other iPod  [MH] |
Is there an app for the iPod...
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Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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LAME has some nice quality settings, and if you plug it into Foobar 2000 you can configure it and batch convert to your hearts content.
'tis what I do with my Ngage music.
It obviously isn't automatic though.gif)
Finally got yourself a nano, then, eh?
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Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoThanks Rhy - I'll give it a try and if it works you'll be promoted to god-like status, well, in my eyes at least!
Otto - yeah, I'm aware of the issue with this. I tried to convert a couple of files on the PC and I couldn't really tell the difference. I don't plan on *replacing* the files with the double compressed ones, just recompressing when transfering to the iPod in order to fit a third more on there. I'm hoping I won't be able to notice the difference through earphones, but I'll have to wait and see.
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Musicmatch did this for my Creative Jukebox, I presume it's Ipod compatable too...does it all on the fly, works very well as far as I'm concerned. -
eviltobz 2,609 posts
Registered 18 years agoMike_Hunt wrote:
just a minor point of note, listening tests tend to indicate that aac at suitable lower bitrates sound pretty much identical. generally 128k mp3 = 96k aac, so i'd recommend that you try and get it converted to tht if you can.
blah blah blah mp3's encoded at at least 192 blah blah convert files on the fly to the ipod (where I'm not overly bothered by the bitrate and 128 will do fine).
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Shivoa 6,314 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYep, personally I use 128k aac (or 128k VBR aac) for iPod listening and find it does an admirable job of portraying the CD with a full range of sounds and no distortion in harder to encode areas. I generally require 160k or 192k vbr for mp3s to sounds the same in hard to encode areas (but at least modern encoding has moved on from when I started to move my CDs to mp3 and a 128k encoding often just cut off all the low frequency, maybe assuming that portable headphones couldn't produce those sounds anyway - had to redo a lot of my early mp3s because of that) -
Isn't that going to be horribly lossy? I mean compressing twice? Far better surely to rip your original files at a lower bitrate to start with. -
Fair enough. If you can't hear a difference, then there's no difference.
People can get waaaay too hung up on such things.
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