on re-encoding radio/grammaphone audios

theold1 · 06-02-08, 10:01 PM

Some of the mod provided radio and grammaphone audios are awesome to have for ambiance, but for those of us short on disk space they can chew up a lot of space.

I was able to recode them at a lower bit rate and saved myself 1.5 GBs of disk space. There might be a little loss in quality, but it's still acceptable to me (these aren't super high-fi in the first place given the radio tech of the day!). If anyone else wants to do the same thing here is the command I used. You can mount the drive from a Linux or BSD machine and do this:

for f in *.mp3; do lame --quiet -m m --abr 25 "$f" "New/$f"; done

Which will leave all your re-encoded files in "New". If you're satisfied with them, just delete the originals and move the new ones to the original location ("mv New/* .").

06-02-08, 10:01 PM	#1
theold1 Watch Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 20 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	on re-encoding radio/grammaphone audios Some of the mod provided radio and grammaphone audios are awesome to have for ambiance, but for those of us short on disk space they can chew up a lot of space. I was able to recode them at a lower bit rate and saved myself 1.5 GBs of disk space. There might be a little loss in quality, but it's still acceptable to me (these aren't super high-fi in the first place given the radio tech of the day!). If anyone else wants to do the same thing here is the command I used. You can mount the drive from a Linux or BSD machine and do this: for f in .mp3; do lame --quiet -m m --abr 25 "$f" "New/$f"; done Which will leave all your re-encoded files in "New". If you're satisfied with them, just delete the originals and move the new ones to the original location ("mv New/ .").