Gario Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Hey, all! I obviously need to compress my files to an acceptible file size if I want anyone to listen to them. However, currently when I compress my files I find that I lose a lot of quality (I'm talking around 15 - 20 dbs). That's quite extreme for such a conversion, and the loss of quality is astounding. I can't post something here accurately with the loss being this extreme. So, I'm taking a 4:45 piece, exporting it from Reason 3 at 44.1 khz, 16 bit dithered (it comes out as a wav., and it sounds quite good at that level), then import it to Super and format it as an MP3 file, 44100 khz, 160 kbps, 16 bit, 2 channel, and it comes out terrible. It also is borderlining the limit for OC (roughly 5.8 megs, converted), so I can't just up the quality I understand that there is going to be some loss between the files, but the amount that I'm getting is ridiculous. I'd give a sample to show what I mean, but that'd be a 50meg file I'm posting, and I'm sure no one wants to deal with that Is there something I'm doing wrong with my conversion, or should I use a different program? If there are any other programs that I can use, could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks! Quote
Sengin Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Try Audacity (the newest beta version, 1.3.x I think). I rendered a 24-bit 44.1KHz 2-channel wave file into a 5.9MB (yeah, it was close to the limit) 128 ABR mp3 and it sounded pretty good. Quote
Historian Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 I used Audacity for the longest time and its great!But for me about 2 days ago something just stopped working right and I cant explain it so i looked for a new free program and now Im using GoldWave and I only used it once so far but I like it.With my luck on stuff like this it will stop working after I convert 10 songs haha But yea Audacity is good no dout but if your not liking it try GoldWave. Quote
Gario Posted February 16, 2009 Author Posted February 16, 2009 Thanks a lot, guys! Audacity works great for this! I knew about Audacity, but I didn't know that it was for conversions. I knew it was great for recording, but thats it. This makes my day; thanks! Quote
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