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:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
It looks like the solution is to take the file sox produces and put it
through lame:

   lame --silent -b 80 --resample 44.1 one.mp3 two.mp3

For some reason I can't figure out how to pipe the sox output to lame, but
using two separate commands works for now. Thanks very much.

~ryan