mp3packerX
A drag-n-drop Mac OSX frontend for the windows-only mp3packer created by Omion at HydrogenAudio.org
Requirements: An Intel Mac running OSX, with Darwine installed in your Applications folder.
mp3packer Renamer: Use this wrapped bash script (drag-n-drop) to rename the packed files, overwriting the originals.
What?! Who? Why!?
mp3packer attempts to save space by storing frame data in the smallest possible frame. Usually mp3s are already stored in the most efficient way possible. However, for high-bitrate CBR files, e.g. 320kbps (created via LAME ‘-b 320′ aka ‘–preset insane’ for example) there can be a lot of wasted space. So, the original idea of mp3packer was created to reduce the size of high bitrate CBR files, turning them into VBR files.
[ From the mixing bowl wiki ]
How?
- HOW TO USE:
- Install: Darwine in your Applications folder and these two apps wherever you wish
- Drop the files you wish to convert to VBR (works best with higher bitrate CBR files) on mp3packerX
- If you’re paranoid, test the new files to make sure they work, etc…
- Now, drop the newly created packed files on mp3packer Renamer to rename them, overwriting the originals. (This only works if the songs were originally named like so:
## Track Name.mp3(where ## is the tracknumber. This is how iTunes will name your files if you let it). - Voila! Wasn’t that fun?!
mp3packer Renamer source: (todo: incorporate into mp3packerX, help?!)for i in *-vbr.mp3; do j=`echo $i | sed 's/-vbr.mp3/.mp3/g'`; mv "$i" "$j"; done
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