In the last episode (Jul 23), Gary Dunn said: > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 05:16, Dan Nelson wrote: > ... > > remember you're going to lose quite a bit of quality, as lame will > > try and encode the artifacts on the first mp3, plus add its own as > > it tries to lower the bitrate. Don't re-encode unless you need to > > play them on something that simply can't handle the higher bitrate. > > Such as? BTW, this is related to why JPEG files cannot be edited > without turning weird.
I was thinking of portable mp3-players that might only expect to be handed low-bitrate mpegs generated by the software that came with them. I don't know if any exist that can't handle high bitrates, though. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message