I’m ditching streaming services and just going with local music. However all my CDs are converted to either flac or 320kbps mp3 files on my PC and thus far too large for the limited storage I have on my phone.
I was hoping there might be an app that would automatically downconvert to something like 128kbps and then copy over to the Music directory on my phone. A bit like how Calibre can automatically convert eBook files (e.g. mobi to epub) and then send them to your ereader?
“Downsizing” an mp3 is what we call transcoding, and it’s bad. An mp3 (or the better ogg vorbis) works (basically) by discarding parts of the audio that you won’t hear. Doing that will discard parts of the mp3 that already has a bunch of parts discarded and this makes it sound bad.
I do something like what you’re looking for, but it’s all through a bunch of custom scripts and crap that I made. I buy flac, encode that to ogg (which sounds better than mp3s at lower bitrates), those oggs get synced to my phone, then later I organize those oggs to my collection.
I think you’ll have to either accept these large mp3s or start a lossless collection.
If you’re gonna use use the ogg container, you might as well use the newer opus compression.
So… if I ditch my MP3s (@ 320k) and use Ogg + Opus (@ …? bps?), then I’d have the same / “better” music in less storage space?
Does that work ok with Picard, etc as I’m a bit OCD with metadata
I looked into it and you’re right. I could probably save 7G by reencoding all my music and it sounds better. I’d have to rewrite a bunch of scripts :)