Re-encode MP3 for MMC on the Phone

Posted January 25, 2005

I have found that re-encoding MP3s for the phone works fairly well. It reduces the filesize by up to 3 times, which is really handy when I only have 28MB of availalbe space.

lame --mp3input -m s -b 64 --resample 44.1 <INPUT> <OUTPUT>

I could even drop it down with -m m (mode mono) and -b 32 (minimum bitrate 32).

This way I have a few mixes that go for over an hour each, and the quality is still listenable (compared to nothing :)b

3 Comments so far

  1. Hale on January 25th, 2005

    How does it affect battery life to play an MP3 for an hour?

  2. mlambie on January 27th, 2005

    No real drain noticed.

  3. CapJack on October 13th, 2005

    For a simpliest way, use my frontend :

    WinMP3Shrink

    Downloadable on ZDNet or Download.com.

    ;)