How To Lower Bitrate, & iTunes tutorials Options

[Aurous]

Friends,

I wish to lower the bit rate of audio tracks from 320kbps/224kbps MP3 to 160kbps MP3. JetAudio converts to 128kbps (maximum) & that too in WMA format. I want the converted audio files in MP3 format only.

I do not have iTunes, neither do I own an iPod. Please suggest some software/audio conversion tools.

Waiting for your replies.

[Marcilo]

chambel ki Kasam and Dil e Nadan’s picture, So does that mean iTunes show cover pics from its own library or you have to scan those

[Aurous]

Thanks a lot Deewz for educating me extensively on iTunes

Must have taken a lot of time with all those screenshots, thanks for all the effort dear, you have always been a great help, please accept my sincere thanks

Plus, the keyboard shortcuts were really helpful

[deewani]

YW Mujahid, it doesn't really take any time at all to do screenshots, the other info I've typed before elsewhere on the web for some other folks, so just copied and pasted.

Marci, the picture is a scan of my CD, usually when I rip a CD or record a cassette, I scan the covers and place them in the soundtrack's folder, then you can tag the image to the songs from that album. If I've bought something like the recently released Film Hits Vol 1 Classic Soundtracks 5 CD pack from Universal, they have not included individual covers except for super mini ones on the cardboard box. For things like that I seek out the artwork on the web, usually vinyl covers are my favorites, followed by those posters we see here on HF so much. If I clicked on that little window showing that picture you see in the screenshot, a new window would open with the full size of the cover. Most software mp3 players display these pictures these days when you are playing music, as do many hardware mp3 players, even the car decks have started doing this. Artwork is also great when burning CDs in iTunes, using the Print function, you can create a custom cd cover, if your CD is going to be from several albums it will show you a mosaic cover. Read more about that here: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/...ists-in-itunes/



Also iTunes now has full screen coverflow, so you can simply browse your albums via cover (above, click thumbnail for full screen). You can either grab a cover and flip to the next with your mouse, or slide the scrubber bar to quickly move through your albums. If PC has tv out, it can be hooked up to your TV and in the immediate future, you will be able to control it with a remote control, a virtual jukebox! This can already be seen on your PC, and on the new iPhones, and I am positive will be on the next generation of iPods.

iTunes is capable of grabbing artwork from the store's library, but of course, that feature is mostly for non-Indian music. There are also plug-ins people have created so one can automatically tag album art to music files from Amazon, etc. But for our desi stuff, the Orchard (online mp3 music distrubutor for the SaReGaMa/EMI/RPG/HMV label) does not tag the album art to it's file, choosing the SaReGaMa label's logo instead, so they are no help. Universal Music India however, does include the full size cover artwork (usually the old vinyl picture) when you purchase from iTunes store.