OKay, I came across a site the other day and it had a 7 MINUTE mp3 file and was only 800kb in file size. It was decent enough to listen to and was pretty good quality. Anytime i convert a WAV to Mp3 file it only halves the size of it. Is there a program for creating small Mp3 files? I would appreciate any help towards this as my MP3 sizes are out of control compared to this. Thanks in advance.
A typical 128Kbits/sec MP3 has a compression of more than 10:1 over Redbook-standard CD WAV. A good rule of thumb is about a meg a minute, so your MP3 is compressed much more than this - maybe another factor of 10 ;-( Your small audio file is probably MPEG-II not MPEG-I. The difference is the sample frequencies of the input file. MPEG-I can handle input streams (WAV files) with a sample frequency of 48000, 44100 and 32000 Hz. MPEG-II on the other hand will support stream for 24000, 22050 16000 Hz. Basically, use MPEG-II when you want to encode with low bit rates (ie. for voice files, or if you need small MP3 files with reduced quality). Also, the lowest bit-rate for MPEG-II is 8 Kbits/sec while for MPEG-I the lowest bit rate is 32 Kbits/s. A quick calculation shows your MP3 is approx 16 Kbits/s. I'm sure it is mono if it sounded not too bad! You can easily make these yourself with CDex. 100:1 compression is a little greedy though... (LoL) http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ Let us know how you make out
seems the OGS made his point clear. my 2 cents ogg vorbis at 48kbps beats any encoder of mp3 at 32kbps by a mile.
i just found a way using Sound Recorder to convert a WAV to MP3 at 64KBPS. It drastically decreased the file size.
