[linux-audio-user] Re-encoding Stereo mp3's into Mono mp3's

[Ron Lavoie]

On a related note, I've never been able to get a clear answer on mono 
encoding.  The way I figure, a track ripped at 96k/mono should be the same 
sound quality as 192 stereo.  Do I figure right?

-Ron

At 07:05 PM 2002-12-08 +0400, you wrote:
>hi
>
>On/le Sun, 8 Dec 2002 07:58:03 -0600
>"Steven P. Ulrick" <spu at faith4miracle.org> wrote / a écrit quelque
>chose comme:
>
> > Hello, Everyone :)
> > My question is, is it possible to take an already existing mp3 (128
> > kBits, 44.1 kHZ, joint stereo) and re-encode it so that it is in
> > mono(at 128 kBits of course).  (...)
>
>you can try this:
>lame -m m input.mp3 output.mp3
>
>I never try it because I mainly translate 128 to 32 kbits mp3 (for music 
>rehearsals) using this:
>lame -m m -q0 -b32 input.mp3 output.mp3
>-q0 is for best quality (slower) and -b32 for 32 kbits.
>It really works very well.
>
>Cheers.
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