iPod touch How to I change Bitrate outside of iTunes??

[wickerman1893]

Hi I'm wondering how I would change the Bitrate of a song outside of iTunes because most of the songs I need to change won't even be imported into iTunes. Is there a program or a special way of doing so?

 

[AdrianK]

Change the bitrate, are you sure? iTunes doesn't have nitrate restrictions, it either supports the codec the files is encoded with or it doesn't. What kind of files are these? A Media Info report would be useful.

 

[wickerman1893]

Just small 2-12 second .mp3 sound clips that I want a standard 256kpbs rate on. They are for an iOS app I'm making. They won't import into iTunes so I can't change them that way.

 

[blueroom]

XLD can convert between formats.

 

[AdrianK]

Just small 2-12 second .mp3 sound clips that I want a standard 256kpbs rate on. They are for an iOS app I'm making. They won't import into iTunes so I can't change them that way.

That's weird, there's no reason why they shouldn't import in to iTunes.

You can use Max to convert them to 128kb/s or whatever, I'm guessing AAC would be preferable for iOS development. When you have Max installed, add AAC as an output from Preferences > Output > Apple MPEG4.