MP3 Bitrate Converter (Macintosh)

[lilsensa]

Does anyone know of any free and good bitrate converters for Mac?? I am trying to make some MP3 files a higher bitrate. Thanks in advance

[beanzncheez]

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You're trying to make them sound worse than they already are? What's wrong with you?

[lilsensa]

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Went to a concert over the weekend...Got the recording, but it's on 128.....Want to make them at least 256

[Jenks]

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you can go down, not up. shit outta luck dude.

[lilsensa]

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^^I did some hunting, and found an application called "Switch"....Converts Flac files into MP3 and you can choose whatever bitrate you want...up to 320 and also VBR... and it's working great!

[beanzncheez]

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Yeah, but it ends up making it sound more like shit. If you can't tell then A) You have some shit speakers or B) You have some shit ears.
No joke.

[Jenks]

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^^I did some hunting, and found an application called "Switch"....Converts Flac files into MP3 and you can choose whatever bitrate you want...up to 320 and also VBR... and it's working great!

that switch program converts lossless audio (flac) to lossy (mp3) which is a downgrade and yes, that works. you said you have a 128 concert recording. using that program on a mp3 to raise the bitrate doesn't work. you can probably make the conversion, and it'll have a new tag, but it's still 128. unless i missunderstood you from the beginning on what you're trying to do.

[tiddles]

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please let me know if you find a program that can reverse engineer audio files like this

[lilsensa]

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that switch program converts lossless audio (flac) to lossy (mp3) which is a downgrade and yes, that works. you said you have a 128 concert recording. using that program on a mp3 to raise the bitrate doesn't work. you can probably make the conversion, and it'll have a new tag, but it's still 128. unless i missunderstood you from the beginning on what you're trying to do.

Switch gave me the option of raising the bitrate..I chose 256...After the conversion, I played the files in itunes and the bitrate said exactly what i had changed it to..Worked just fine.

[Yao]

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k, a little explanation here:

take a wav file and convert it to 320 kbps. You'll lose a range of frequencies and other info, but it still sounds good. Hoewever, the info that is lost in the conversion is lost forever and cannot be rebuilt.

Convert a wav file into 128 and the same happens, just a little more loss on the info. Now, if you want to go convert that shit to 256 or 320, you'll be trying to add date that is lost and cannot be restored. The file info itself will say it's 256, but the sound quality is the same as 128. Plain and simple.

To make it easier: it's like going to the hairdresser with a short cut telling him you want him to cut dreads. You can only take off, not add.

[Jenks]

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Switch gave me the option of raising the bitrate..I chose 256...After the conversion, I played the files in itunes and the bitrate said exactly what i had changed it to..Worked just fine.

smoke and mirrors. like yao said, it's still 128, it just looks 256. you got got.

[beanzncheez]

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[miketpoto]

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Retard

[beanzncheez]

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