How to increase the bitrate of audio??

[anshul]

The queation is simple:
How do we increase the bitrate of a sound track(any format).Are there any softwares available for the purpose and are any freewares available too??

[alok4best]

yes, DBAmp music converter. and many more .
But it wont enhance the quality of the audio...only file size will increase..

[anshul]

Then isn't there any way to increase the sound quality??

[pushkar]

No, you can't upgrade a lower quality track to higher quality.

[ajayritik]

Originally Posted by alok4best

yes, DBAmp music converter. and many more .
But it wont enhance the quality of the audio...only file size will increase..

^^ +1. Even I had similar query couple of months back. There is no point using any software to increase the bit rate as it will not help you much in the quality enhancement.

[ray|raven]

Originally Posted by alok4best

yes, DBAmp music converter. and many more .
But it wont enhance the quality of the audio...only file size will increase..

It may as well decrease the quality, Transcoding is EBIL!!

[ajayritik]

Originally Posted by rayraven

It may as well decrease the quality, Transcoding is EBIL!!

What does EBIL stand for? I'm Sorry dude I'm new to these acronymns!

[ray|raven]

Ebil is just another way of saying Evil.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ebil

[rollcage]

Originally Posted by anshul

The queation is simple:
How do we increase the bitrate of a sound track(any format).Are there any softwares available for the purpose and are any freewares available too??

you can always do that ... many are available .. I like dbpoweramp. ya its freeware .. one of the best open source stuff around.

but to your question .. why you want to increase it.
you can not increase the quality back.

see its like that .. when you accidentally cut a 100 rupee note you can not fix it back
.. its 100 rupees gone like a wind. same with bit rates. if you rip a song from a cd at 64kbps
.. you can do no good by converting that to 128kbps
.. the only way to increase the quality is to rip the song again from the original source.
I hope this helps in understanding the theory.

bye4now dude

[agm_1052001]

Check this out if this helps...

hxxp://www.ogg-converter.com/download.htm

[pushkar]

Originally Posted by rollcage

I like dbpoweramp. ya its freeware .. one of the best open source stuff around

dbPoweramp is open source?

[rollcage]

Originally Posted by pushkar

dbPoweramp is open source?

dont grab the words out of my mouth man.. ya its not open source, I meant the Freeware stuff.. its also technically open to everyone .. free to try free to use. I meant awesome Freeware.

[enjoy]

Try MP3Gain.. opensource http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

[Kl@w-24]

Originally Posted by enjoy

Try MP3Gain.. opensource http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

MP3Gain is NOT for encoding/decoding. It's a software that can alter the volume of MP3 files according to ur taste!!

[Ponmayilal]

May be a little out of context but the only occasion I found it necessary to resample my mp3s was when I wanted to convert them to Sony Atrac+ format to be played on Sony Discman.

The conversion software by Sony required that all Mp3s be in CBR 128. I had to convert all my VBRs to CBR 128 before converting them to Atrac+.And I think I used the Goldwave Digital Audio editor for the VBR to CBR conversion.

Goldwave can also be used to resample from a lower bit rate to higher bit rate but do this only in exceptional circumstances like this.Otherwise there is simply no point in doing that.