Reducing the size of MP3's?

[yasin]

I've installed MP3 Player on my N6600, but I want to know how I can reduce the size of MP3's so my my memory card does'nt get filled up quickly. I can live with some audio quality loss.

Or can anyone point me to some threads that discusses this topic.

Thanks.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[yasin]

I've tried using winLAME but I can't make them smaller. Anyone know the best settings to use?

[cmatthee]

Search for the terms "compress mp3". You will find some discussion about this topic.

i saw that alot of you want to get more mp3's on portable devices like the iPOD or mobile phones.
look the easyest way is to reduce the BITRATE of the mp3 file.
128kbs is cd quality mp3
make this lower eg 96 or 44 will reduce the size of the mp3 u can go all the way down to 16 but keep in mind that quality is lost.
use programs like 'CDex' and experiment with settings on some songs to find which bitrate will suit you.

l8r

[willbrady]

Get yourself DBPowerAmp
It has a template for Mobile devices.
16kbps / 8khz / mono

Tiny files, sounds fine on mobile - depending on music style - some sound great, some are a bit distorted.
32kbps / 12khz / mono does me for 90% of my music.
Sometimes go to 16khz to cut distortion.

[Aussie]

I've encoded all my MP3's for my phone at 96Kbps, that seems to be a pretty good encoding bitrate, no noticable loss of quality, and the size gets reduced to 2MB to 3MB.

[mygods]

Try joy ringtone converter, just GOOGLE it
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ne&newwindow=1

[HanTemucin]

I know a cute program with batch conversion mode, reduces up to 80 %.
It has predefined conversion modes, which helps you to decide how much to reduce the size.


Also converts wav files to reduced MP3 files.



ekossoft.com/mp3minimizer.aspx