Tool to increase the quality of MP3 song?
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Hi, Is there any free tool/utility to increase the quality of an MP3 song? An MP3 song with 128kbit doesn't sound as nice in my MP3 Player as an MP3 song with 192kbit. Is there any tool to increase the "kbit" of an MP3 song? By the way is this "kbit" the rate at which the original analog song was sampled at when it was converted to digital format? Thanks, Melwyn
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Hi, Is there any free tool/utility to increase the quality of an MP3 song? An MP3 song with 128kbit doesn't sound as nice in my MP3 Player as an MP3 song with 192kbit. Is there any tool to increase the "kbit" of an MP3 song? By the way is this "kbit" the rate at which the original analog song was sampled at when it was converted to digital format? Thanks, Melwyn
melwyn wrote: Is there any tool to increase the "kbit" of an MP3 song? Yeah, use whatever your ripping tool happens to be, set the encoder at a higher bit rate and re-rip the original CD. Increasing the number of bits used to encode an *existing* mp3 is an exercise in futility and a waste of disk space, because you won't gain an increase in the sound quality of the mp3 - you already lost that in the original rip. That's why it's called lossy compression :-D -- Ian Darling "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky
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Hi, Is there any free tool/utility to increase the quality of an MP3 song? An MP3 song with 128kbit doesn't sound as nice in my MP3 Player as an MP3 song with 192kbit. Is there any tool to increase the "kbit" of an MP3 song? By the way is this "kbit" the rate at which the original analog song was sampled at when it was converted to digital format? Thanks, Melwyn
AFAIK, it's impossible, since MP3 encoding is a lossy process. Once you encoded something at 128kbit, this is the total information you have. You can even recode it at 192kbit or 256kbit, but it will not increase sound quality, it will only increase file size. Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. -- Bruce Schneier By the way, dog_spawn isn't a nickname - it is my name with an underscore instead of a space. -- dog_spawn
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melwyn wrote: Is there any tool to increase the "kbit" of an MP3 song? Yeah, use whatever your ripping tool happens to be, set the encoder at a higher bit rate and re-rip the original CD. Increasing the number of bits used to encode an *existing* mp3 is an exercise in futility and a waste of disk space, because you won't gain an increase in the sound quality of the mp3 - you already lost that in the original rip. That's why it's called lossy compression :-D -- Ian Darling "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky
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Hi, Is there any free tool/utility to increase the quality of an MP3 song? An MP3 song with 128kbit doesn't sound as nice in my MP3 Player as an MP3 song with 192kbit. Is there any tool to increase the "kbit" of an MP3 song? By the way is this "kbit" the rate at which the original analog song was sampled at when it was converted to digital format? Thanks, Melwyn
melwyn wrote: By the way is this "kbit" the rate at which the original analog song was sampled at when it was converted to digital format? Nope, in fact it's not a sample rate - it's a transfer rate, and should read kbps. As others have already stated, information that's not there can't just be pulled out of thin air.
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melwyn wrote: By the way is this "kbit" the rate at which the original analog song was sampled at when it was converted to digital format? Nope, in fact it's not a sample rate - it's a transfer rate, and should read kbps. As others have already stated, information that's not there can't just be pulled out of thin air.
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Shog9 wrote: information that's not there can't just be pulled out of thin air. I had a retort about Bush and WMDs, but I realize political humor should be kept to the soapbox. :rolleyes: ;P
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Shog9 wrote: information that's not there can't just be pulled out of thin air. I had a retort about Bush and WMDs, but I realize political humor should be kept to the soapbox. :rolleyes: ;P
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Nick Seng wrote: information that's not there can't just be pulled out of thin air. I had a retort about Bush and WMDs, but I realize political humor should be kept to the soapbox. what do you mean ??, it the wmd theory wasnt pulled out of thin air,, the have phots of the freaking missile ramps for gods sake: missile[^] //Roger
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Nick Seng wrote: information that's not there can't just be pulled out of thin air. I had a retort about Bush and WMDs, but I realize political humor should be kept to the soapbox. what do you mean ??, it the wmd theory wasnt pulled out of thin air,, the have phots of the freaking missile ramps for gods sake: missile[^] //Roger
Roger J wrote: they have photos of the freaking missile ramps Any actual missiles? --Colin Mackay--
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Roger J wrote: they have photos of the freaking missile ramps Any actual missiles? --Colin Mackay--
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Any actual missiles Confusion. Does this mean ? The Missile ramps were dummys made by Saddam to trick Bush into believing that IRAQ had WMDs. (In which case he was succesful) Or.. The missiles are still hidden, in which case Bush is in the clear. Regardz Colin J Davies
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Any actual missiles Confusion. Does this mean ? The Missile ramps were dummys made by Saddam to trick Bush into believing that IRAQ had WMDs. (In which case he was succesful) Or.. The missiles are still hidden, in which case Bush is in the clear. Regardz Colin J Davies
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That's for Saddam to know and Bush to find out. --Colin Mackay--
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That's for Saddam to know and Bush to find out. --Colin Mackay--
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ok , just to clear things out , the picture i posted was an oil rig... :P //Roger
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ok , just to clear things out , the picture i posted was an oil rig... :P //Roger
So saddam has hidden the missile ramps as well! :omg: :laugh::laugh::laugh: --Colin Mackay--
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Hi, Is there any free tool/utility to increase the quality of an MP3 song? An MP3 song with 128kbit doesn't sound as nice in my MP3 Player as an MP3 song with 192kbit. Is there any tool to increase the "kbit" of an MP3 song? By the way is this "kbit" the rate at which the original analog song was sampled at when it was converted to digital format? Thanks, Melwyn
You can't do it. Because the original info no longer exists in the lower quality MP3.