Re: [orca-list] shri~nking mp3s

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
Sox works pretty well too, it is a command line utility. There is a link for installing the unstripped version of it on my blog in one of the "commanding the command line" articles.
HTH
Storm

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On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 02:51 +0000, michael weaver wrote:
> is there an accessible way of shrinking mp3 files that is 
> accessible with orca?
> i know sound converter can encode a cd but i have not yet done 
> this with mp3 files that have been just downloaded.
> i tried sound converter on some downloaded files but although it 
> chose ogg as the converted format, the converted file sizes were 
> bigger for some reason and not smaller like i thought ogg files 
> were supposed to be.
> is there something else i needed to change in sound converter to 
> be able to get smaller files?
> whatever i use i need to be able to play the files on my 
> plextalk.
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