Compressing Mp3's?

[bilzar]

So I found the complete Brawl sound track (I'm not telling you where I found it do to that I would probably get in trouble), but I have a problem...There's over 2gigs worth of music on it and my mp3 player only has 1g(and only about 600mb available) Is there a way to compress the Mp3's so that I can fit it all on my Mp3? Thanks

 

[gidget]

you can use itunes to convert them from high bit rates to low (like 128k)
for headphones... 128k is very good! even for excellent headphones :yesnod:

i even use 128k on my stereo.

 

[Haz]

Are they actualy MP3s or Flac files? If somone has ripped the soundtrack from a DVD, they usualy end up in Flac files if they know what they are doing.

If they are MP3s, use anything that incorporates a LAME encoder and you should be fine. LAME is pretty solid at keeping the sound quality when reducing file size. I use it when I compress my WAV files to MP3s

 

[bilzar]

you can use itunes to convert them from high bit rates to low (like 128k)
for headphones... 128k is very good! even for excellent headphones :yesnod:

i even use 128k on my stereo.

Thanks Idjut, I'll try that

 

[[DT]]

Even if it was Lossless, that's still "only" ~700MB per CD. 2GB? That sounds like a 3-CD, Lossless rip!?

If they're in MP3 format, even at a high bitrate, that's a HUGE amount of music (talking like 20+ CD's worth).