Mp3 compression

[Solid_Snake]

How do you compress Mp3? and what mp3 compressor do you use? bec. my winzip and rar does only compress 3 kb. of my mp3's

[Kane]

MP3s are already compressed. You are unlikely to get basicaly any further compression on them from RAR or ZIP. It's like trying to Zip a Zip

I don't encode to MP3 anymore. I use MPC at 160KBps VBR

[Solid_Snake]

Where can you get a MPC encoder?
can you use that on CD's and can u ply that on Winamp 2.91?

[Noxious Ninja]

Originally Posted by Lord Kane

MP3s are already compressed. You are unlikely to get basicaly any further compression on them from RAR or ZIP. It's like trying to Zip a Zip

I don't encode to MP3 anymore. I use MPC at 160KBps VBR

Never heard of MPC either.

I use FLAC at max compression.

[didamangi]

http://www.musepack.tk/

For information about MPC.

I use dBpower amp to create MPC from audio cd.
And you can play it on winamp (there's a winamp plugin for that)

[Solid_Snake]

What a Link!, reconstruct it again.

[Kane]

Originally Posted by Solid_Snake

What a Link!, reconstruct it again.

Are you trying to say that the link is broken or something? because it sounds like you are just ejaculatorising an load of ridiculatory words for no intelorific reason.
In any case, although that is the official site, if it's down for you head here or here

[Solid_Snake]

no I use Microsoft Internet Exp. I think it just bec. we use different browsers

[Kane]

Once again, you are making an astounding lack of sense. I never even mentioned browsers...... I use IE anyways

[Solid_Snake]

It's just I think
anyways, what does the mpcenc.exe do?, it just open a DOS window and it closes up.

[Kane]

It's a command line encoding utility. You encode using various switches, or you get a frontend for it.

[GALVATRON]

Originally Posted by Lord Kane

I don't encode to MP3 anymore. I use MPC at 160KBps VBR

What kind of compression ratio do you get from MPC?
(provide an example of before/after file sizes.)

I use dbPowerAmp. Compressing to wma format @ 80kbps will typically reduce the resulting file to 2/3 of the original mp3 (128kbps) size without much difference in sound quality.

[Kane]

I don't recompress MP£s as you lose too much quality.
The track 'The Music of the Night' from Phantom of the Opera, a 5 minute 41 second long track, is 9 megs big at 'Insane' quality, which is 224KBps VBR.
Adam F -The Tree Knows Everything (feat. Tracey Thorn): 4m26, 6.22Mb 'Xtreme' (196KBps)
James - Laid: 3m13, 4.01Mb 'Standard' (173.4KBps)
KLF - 3AM (Live): 9m24, 10.49Mb 'Standard' (155.8KBps)
Finaly, Depeche Mode's 'World in My Eyes': 4m25, 5.78Mb Standard (182.4KBps)
As you can see, even with the 'Standard' profile, the bitrate doesn't stick at 160KBps. I prefer it simply because I never get the tinny feel I do from MP3 up to ~192 KBps. I'm not too concerned with the filesize, as I have shed loads of space, I'm more concerned with the quality of the final file, while being a reasonable size if you get what I mean.
I don't particularly want to expend 400Mb for a CDs worth of music in APE (lossless) format, and at the same time, I'd rather not encode it all at 96KBps or 128KBps MP3 and lose too much quality on it. MPC 'Standard' I find gives me the best tradeoff between filesize and sound quality.

[Phoenix Flame]

KLF! Uh-huh uh, uh-huh uh-huh
Nice to see you got good taste in music Kane.

[Kane]

Damn straight. KLF rule

[Solid_Snake]

Then how do I use it?

[Kane]

Originally Posted by Lord Kane

It's a command line encoding utility. You encode using various switches, or you get a frontend for it.

LIKE I FREAKING SAID.
Have you ever used DOS?

[Solid_Snake]

Yes, for MSDOS Mario

[Kane]

Then try typing MPCEnc /? in the command line, like you would for any app without a frontend. Jeebus

[Solid_Snake]

Thanx, another Q. off topic, what music files are compressable?