[Nocturnal310]

is there any software to convert variable bit rate music to constant bit rate?

i burnt a CD for my pioneer home theatre..and it doesnt play VBR tracks.
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[krmathis]

Decode to WAV (PCM). Voila!

 

[Ham Sandwich]

Converting from VBR to CBR would mean a lossy to lossy transcode. Lossy to lossy transcoding is bad to do as it compounds lossy artifacts.

 

[Nocturnal310]

loss is quality doesnt matter..its not for me...is there any software?

 

[Ham Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Nocturnal310 /img/forum/go_quote.gif loss is quality doesnt matter..its not for me...is there any software?

Foobar or dBpoweramp should do the re-encoding. I haven't tried doing a VBR to CBR transcode using either of them, but either of them should be able to do it.

 

[UNHchabo]

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Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich /img/forum/go_quote.gif Foobar or dBpoweramp should do the re-encoding. I haven't tried doing a VBR to CBR transcode using either of them, but either of them should be able to do it.

I don't use dBpoweramp, but with Foobar, it will do it, but it will throw up a warning, stating know exactly what you said: that lossy-to-lossy transcodes are not recommended, and introduce more loss of quality than will be expected.

Nocturnal310, if you still have lossless copies of the music somewhere (even if it's a hassle to get them), I recommend encoding using those. Encoding an MP3 to an MP3, even at a high bitrate, introduces more artifacts than you probably expect. It's like using a very good video camera to record a movie in a theater; it's just not the same.

 

[krmathis]

How about just using LAME?
You do not mention which codec the files are currently encoded with and what you want to convert to. But I take a wild guess that it is MP3...