Best MP3 Bitrate Converter?
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    any suggestions?

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    If I understand correctly you want to recode mp3s to a different bitrate?

    If so I'd highly advise against it since reencoding lowers the quality, garbage in, garbage out.

    unless there's a technical reason behind it, eg; music won't play cause of the bitrate or file format, I'd use Lame with razor for the front end

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    Well I have some songs that are 256kbps and wanted to convert them to 320kbps if possible. Is it even possible or worth it?

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    negative,

    garbage in, garbage out.

    going from 256 to 320 won't give you anything better, in fact it will likely degrade quality. The source audio won't have those "extra" notes that were there after the conversion so going from 256 to 320 won't add them back in.

    Basically the way encoding MP3's and any other lossy format is you take a source and compress it to a smaller size. To compress it to a smaller size encoders remove notes/bits that are inaudible or likely won't be heard because another note is overlayed and plays louder. There's more to it but this is the idea.

    So if we take notes/chords out of a song, reencoding to a higher bitrate won't make it sound any better since those notes/chords aren't there anyway. Likely by doing this you'll be stripping more out of the tracks you have now going to 320 since the encoder will use the same process it did before to compress, you'll just get larger files since the bitrate is higher.

    Feel good about 256 its dandy and likely you won't hear the difference at 256 CBR (Constant BitRate) vs a CD anyway. You'd need high quality gear and a remarkably good ear to hear 256 CBR vs a CD anyway [this is arguable of course].

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    Awesome, thanks a lot for the info.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hunger View Post
    negative,

    garbage in, garbage out.

    going from 256 to 320 won't give you anything better, in fact it will likely degrade quality. The source audio won't have those "extra" notes that were there after the conversion so going from 256 to 320 won't add them back in.

    Basically the way encoding MP3's and any other lossy format is you take a source and compress it to a smaller size. To compress it to a smaller size encoders remove notes/bits that are inaudible or likely won't be heard because another note is overlayed and plays louder. There's more to it but this is the idea.

    So if we take notes/chords out of a song, reencoding to a higher bitrate won't make it sound any better since those notes/chords aren't there anyway. Likely by doing this you'll be stripping more out of the tracks you have now going to 320 since the encoder will use the same process it did before to compress, you'll just get larger files since the bitrate is higher.

    Feel good about 256 its dandy and likely you won't hear the difference at 256 CBR (Constant BitRate) vs a CD anyway. You'd need high quality gear and a remarkably good ear to hear 256 CBR vs a CD anyway [this is arguable of course].
    could not have said it better.

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    I know a nice Video and Audio Bitrate Converter, can change audio bitrate with ease. The powerful bitrate converter can change all audio and video bitrates like change MP3 bitrate, change WAV bitrate, change MP4 bitrate, change AVI bitrate, change FLAC/AIFF/OGG/WMA/MKV/VOB/AVI/FLV etc. bitrate. This powerful tool can also be called MP3 Bitrate Converter, MP3 Bitrate Changer, WAV Bitrate Changer and more. This wonderful MP3 Bitrate Converter provides solution to merge files, trim files, cut off files, rotate files, add or remove watermarks, add or remove subtitles and so on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MAR View Post
    any suggestions?
    Bitrate or bit rate literally means the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. Actually, the unit of time is second, so, the unit of bitrate is bits per second(symbol: bit/s, bps), or kilo bits per second(kbit/s, kbps). WAV is an uncompressed audio format. The bitrate of a 2 channel, 16 bits per sample, 14400 sample rate WAV file is 2*16*44100=1.3 Mbps. MP3 is a compressed audio format. The bitrate of the same MP3 file as the previous WAV file is about 128 kbps, much less than the WAV file. You can adjust the bitrate of a compressed video of audio file. For the same format, lower bitrate means higher compression rate, lower quality and smaller file size.

    Many people want to change video bitrate or change audio bitrate to adjust the size and quality. To do this task, a powerful Bitrate Converter is essential. Faasoft MP3 Bitrate Converter is just the best one.

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    I'm sure many converters like handbrake can deal with it. Here 2015 top 5 free converters can help you a lot.

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