Converting mp3 bitrates on unix server

[Totally Jayyness]

Ok, maybe I asked this in the wrong group. Can anyone in these other
groups help me out?

J

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:49:13 GMT, Totally Jayyness
<jayjunk@mind_spring.com> wrote:

>Hello everyone, been ages since I have been back here. Hope you are
>all doing well.
>
>Quite some time ago many of you helped me build an FreeBSD 4.4-stable
>MP3 and FTP server. It has been up and running ever since with very
>few issues... and the issues it has had I think are hardware related.
>
>Well, my hard-drive has filled up with MP3s and I am looking for a way
>to free up some space. The solution I have found is to reduce a lot
>of the mp3s bitrates. Many of the mp3s I have were ripped at 256+
>kbps which is a much higher quality then I really need.
>
>I know that the general way to achieve this is to convert an mp3 back
>to a wav then back to an mp3 at the desired bitrate.
>
>I have several utilities that can do this in Windows. I even found
>one that converts the mp3 on the fly without actually turning it into
>a wav first. What that means, though, is I have to d/l the mp3s,
>convert them and then re-upload them.
>
>Do you guys know of any good programs written for FreeBSD that can
>acheive this same process on the server itself?
>
>I have a couple more questions but if there isn't something out there
>like this, then the other questions are mute :)
>
>Thanks,
>
>J
>Totally Jayyness

Totally Jayyness

[Lowell Gilbert]

comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't
necessarily get much help here.
See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html for better ideas...
<followups redirected accordingly>

Totally Jayyness <jayjunk@mind_spring.com> writes:

> Ok, maybe I asked this in the wrong group. Can anyone in these other
> groups help me out?

You don't mention what group you tried before. *Now* you're going to
some "wrong" groups.

Anyway, an easy way to covert MP3 bitrates would be to use an mp3
player (like mpg123, although there *many* others that can do this
just as well) to change it into a raw audio file, WAV, or what have
you, and an encoder (like bladeenc, although again there are many
others) to change it into an MP3 again.

I think that sox (like the other programs I mentioned, in the FreeBSD
ports system) can do a direct coversion of an MP3 file to another
sampling rate, but I'm not sure.