[plug] [revisited] mp3 downsizing

[Jason Belcher]

<delurk after not posting for a long long time>

I must admit that I didn't see the original post, but here's my
suggestion if it's helpful now...

There's various utilities to rename files based on tags/retag files
based on file names. If it's just basic info such as Track Name,
Artist, Album, etc you could try using one of those to rename them
all, then transcode them, the retag based on your filename format.
Could do it for all your tags but you'd have some cumbersome filenames
there.

Dunno, maybe it's a bit of a kludge. Just something that works for me.
(Ripping CDs to .wav and converting them to mp3 later can be useful if
you have a slow processor, and then tag based on the filename.)


Hope this somehow helps.


Jason


On 30 Dec 2004 22:45:46 +0800, Gavin Chester <gavinchester1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> on Thu Dec 23 14:12:48 WST 2004 Gavin Chester gavinchester1 at hotmail.com
> previously posted:
> 
> > I was wanting to know from mp3 gurus if there is a way to preserve the
> > id3 tag info on existing mp3s when downsizing/downsampling with LAME (or
> > suggest another encoder)?
> -snip-
> > The scenario is that I have several thousand tracks burnt to a hard disk
> > at very high quality 256kbs.  I did it this way to then be flexible
> > about what I did with them next.  One of the things I now want to do is
> > to downsample those tracks to something more like 112kbs to suit burning
> > onto disk for a mp3-compatible car CD player.
> -snip-
> 
> While no one here seemed to have any suggestions, I thought the group
> might like to know that I got a response on this from
> one of the LAME developers on the mp3-encoder list.  His response was:
> 
> (/quote)
> LAME4 experimentaly supports the "preserve TAGS when transcoding/encoding"
> but it is experimental feature.
> 
> I don't know this feature will be imported to LAME3.x. IMHO, it will reduce
> the stability of LAME and is not good to do so.
> --
> Takehiro TOMINAGA // may the source be with you!
> (end quote/)
> 
> So there you have it.  I guess it's back to having to re-rip dozens
> of CDs to have smaller files with ID3 tags.  Downsampling doesn't work.
> Groan.
> 
> Regards, Gavin.
> 
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