Re: [orca-list] shri~nking mp3s

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Yes, abcde is cool.  Also, if you want to do all this inside gnome and
orca, the Sound Juice Extracter is an excellent program too.  With
that, if ripping from a CD, just insert the disk and start up this
program.  You will see a list of tracks and possibly their titles if
available from Music Brainz.  Then there will be two buttons; one for
rip and one for play.  You can configure Sound juicer to ultimately
save the ripped tracks in whatever format you want.

I fully agree with Jason's comments below concerning degrading of
audio quality if you transcode or try to alter bit rates of existing
MP3 files - bad idea.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 03:45:13PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> michael weaver <weavermicha googlemail com> wrote:
> > is there an accessible way of shrinking mp3 files that is accessible
> > with orca?
>
> If you compress audio with MP3, you will lose quality; the lower the bit-rate
> of the MP3 file, the worse the quality is. If you take an existing MP3 file,
> decode it, then encode it again as a smaller MP3 file, you'll seriously
> degrade the quality of the audio.
>
> The right way to do this is to compress first to a lossless format such as
> Flac, store your audio in that format, then compress to Ogg Vorbis, MP3 or
> whatever you need. If you're trying to convert audio from a CD, then you
> should install cdparanoia. There are scripts available which automate this
> sort of conversion, such as abcde, which is available as a Debian package and
> it's probably in other distributions as well.
>
> Note that conversion of audio from commercially produced CDs raises copyright
> issues; it is your responsibility to make sure that whatever you're planning
> to do is legal in your country.
>
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