Jasun220: thanx for the code... I get the idea... unfourtanatly its not exactly what I need... it would work out great for making a simple mp3 player... but for right now I''m not so interested in an mp3 player... a few days ago I bought one of those portable mp3 players... its a cheap one... only $40... the draw back is it only has 16mb of flash... it is expandable by Sandisk MMC cards so not to big of a deal... well the problem is all my mp3s are encoded at 128 or 192kbps... so only about 4-5 songs can be put on it at that rate... the software that comes with it... music match jukebox with a plugin =)... has the ability to recode it at a slower bit rate... well the problem is that it dosen''t work on windows 2k... check there website and shure enough they plainly said that it wouldn''t and that they never will write a driver/software that will work for 2k.... instead they sugested that I let 2k reconize it as a generic mass storage device then use media player 7 to convert the mp3s and trancfer them... ok well thats all fine and dandy but the player has an automatic 3minute shut off... well by the time media player is done transcoding the first mp3 the player has shut its self off... so I hafta sit there and baby sit it....
so what I want to do is write a simple command prompt/windows util that will convert the mp3s from 128/192kbps to 32/64kbps... well I''ve found alot of software to encode/decode mp3s out there but the problem is I hafta start one program decode it then start another to encode it.... its a pain in the ass...
so I''m going to write my own... probably start off with a simple dos tool that I give it the name of an mp3 for input another for output and some paramaters about how I want the output encoded... kbps mono/stereo ect... and then let it run... later I''ll probably turn it into a windows program that will manage my mp3s...storing a high kbps for playing on the computer and a low kbps (already converted) for the portable... along with a player and maybe a ripper and burner tool... but for now I just want to write a simple program for transcoding an mp3 with out me having to babysit it....
The Great Milenko"Don't stick a pretzel up your ass, it might get stuck in there.""Computer Programming is findding the right wrench to hammer in the correct screw."
No prob about the code, but i have a util that converts WAV files to any bitrate for a MP3. But the down side is i have to use MP3 to WAV converter to convert it to wav, then MP3.
BTW: If you get that project done, send it to me! jmasoner@mail.com
heh ok I'll send it to you... I guess I need to do some more hunting on the web and see if I can come up with anything... I was planning on putting it up on my website anyways... heh that is if I ever get off my lazy ass and finish putting it togeather =)
Edited by - Great Milenko on August 29, 2001 8:38:35 PM
The Great Milenko"Don't stick a pretzel up your ass, it might get stuck in there.""Computer Programming is findding the right wrench to hammer in the correct screw."
