Re: [SoX-users] compressing an mp3 while maintaining the sampling rate

[Ryan v. R. <ry...@go...>]

On 12/14/07, Hugues Lajeunesse <hu...@ch...> wrote:
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> may you decrease the bit rate? Something like -r44100 -b8 ?
> Has I didn't use the mp3 with sox, I can't be sure if it's possible.



Thanks for your response, Hugues. The sox man page says: "The sample data
size is in bytes, 16-bit words, 32-bit long words, or 64-bit double long
(long long) words.", and offers corresponding flags -b/-w/-l/-d. Changing
the flag from -b to -w doesn't change the file size, however. It seems to be
the same amount of information, broken into different sized chunks. So this
doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for.

I have seen other sound conversion tools which allow both a bit-rate and a
sampling rate to be specified during conversion. Is there really nothing
like this in sox? Thanks.

~ryan