Klaus Roeckerath wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> this may be not an OS/2 specific question, but somebody on the list might know
> an answer anyway. Is it possible to compress files in the mp3 format even
> further? If so, which software would I have to look for?
> 
> TIA,
> Klaus
> 


You could "re-code" them at a Lower Bit Rate, which would reduce the 
total size of the MP3's.

Also making the MONO rather than Stereo will reduce their size by 1/2 as 
well.

You might want to try converting some Wave File to different Bit Rates 
to see how "lossie" of conversion you can manage to live with...

If you can not find a program that will read MP3's and write them at 
another Bit Rate, you will need to convert the MP3's to Waves, (or some 
other Standard, uncompressed format) then re-compress them with LAME or 
some other MP3 Compresser (I personnaly like LAME 
http://lame.sourceforge.net/>, and it is avalible for Win32 and OS/2)

You could try another Coding as well, like Ogg Vorbis 
http://www.vorbis.com/>, also avalible for Win32 and OS/2.


And of course the Best thing is to determine before your start, how 
small of Bit Rate and Mono or Stereo that you can "live with".


MarkO


MarkO


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