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I have bought the dbpoweramp pack I am new to this.What I would like to know is.How can you reduce the size of a mp3 file to wave every time I try I am getting 4.2 mb and i know it can be reduced lower than that.Can any one help?
Teri
Teri
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Re: Newbie Here
welcome to the board
well size depends on the length of the audio and on the compresion settings. If you lower the bitrate while commpresing you will get a smaller file. But if you overdo it the file will sound awful. a general recommendation fro mp3 is don't go under 128kbps. you can try other codecs to get smaller files. as far as I know (and can hear) wma can be good even at 64kbps or better 96kbps. ut you have to listen to it to see if it's good enough for you.
and if you are commpresing speech there are special codecs for that like speex. -
Re: Newbie Here
Teri-
Perhaps we could provide more direct advice if you could share exactly what you are trying to do.
A literal reading of your post suggests that you are trying to convert mp3 to wave. If by wave you mean standard wave (PCM, 2 channel, 44.1 kHz)-this is always going to be larger than mp3 (4 to 10 times larger). If you are talking about compressed wave files (ACM wave) then that would be different and there are valids uses for such files although I believe they will not be as high a quality. But I have never found a use for ACM wave myself and so I am uncertain whether this is what you are asking for.
If you are trying to convert from standard wave to a smaller format (such as mp3), then the question also needs to be asked what you are hoping to do with these files. If you you are only concerned about storing and playing files on your computer and if you want highest compression but reasonable quality then either .ogg or .wma formats would be your best bets. If you are trying to set up some streaming audio or do ring tones or are going to be loading files to a portable player, or if you hope to burn files back to cd-each of these situations would change a recommendation as to what formats and/or settings to try.
So if you would like more direction, could you tell us what you are trying/planning/hoping to do?
Best wishes,
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