If all you care about is the music and not the quality then this is perfect. With the lowest settings an entire album could takes up only 3 MB's of space! I have a cheapo 2 GB mp3 player and I could possibly fit my entire collection on it. I guess if you experiment a little you can still save space and keep the quality.

Works great! I find it much easier to use than WinLame for shrinking large batches of sound files to save space or to make them quicker to send in an email.

I took a bunch of MP3 ringtones that took up 10MB and it quickly shrank all of them to about 3.6MB in no time & left them sounding pretty good even on the lowest quality setting (tho I'd probably use higher settings for music)

Hello, I'm the developer and I just want to let you know that there actually is Unicode support since version 1.3 (see the changelog).

Best regards

@ Kevin S.: Thanks for this notify. I changed the entry accordingly.

Yay! I've been looking for something like this as well. I'm going to shrink what I want for my car's CD player (to fit more on, it's not like I want 384+ for a noisy car) and this will fit the bill

Thanks Kevin!

Site is painfully slow so be patient for this great software - Thanks Kevin

I guess it should be noted that down-coding is best when the source is of high quality. every time you encode regardless of settings the audio becomes degraded. PS. Only time I noticed a difference between 320KBps vs CD was with a car stereo.

How to extract - Also note
The '-portable' parameter is only required for the first run to initialise the parameter files locally.
And to help those of us who are occasionally thick, please remove the period from after '-portable'
Thanks to Kevin for a very useful utility

This is not stealth..

Leaves folder in AppData > Roaming

Folder named: "MP3 Quality Modifier".

UPDATE:
Nevermind.. i missed the command line requirement.


UPDATE: here's a PAF launcher.. no more worrying about command lines..

http://www.mediafire.com/?37jx2q2hyebx89z | 1.02 MB

Not to look a given horse in the tooth (kudos for Kevin :), but shouldn't this be considered addware for the 'plugs' displayed while converting?

@Midas
MP3 Quality Modifier displays a very unobtrusive donation note / self-promotion only during the process which you can (and probably will) minimize anyway. It's in no way restricted in use or disabled in functionality because there is no "pro" version.
Please note that 3rd-party ads will never(!) be added in any of my applications. However, e.g. a donation note should be allowed in freeware, because your suggested term "adware" has a very low reputation and would make releasing new free versions impossible for me.
I hope you understand and accept the developers point of view... ;-)

Best regards,
Kevin S.

Kevin: agreed. Midas: a large percentage of the software listed on this site has a donation button or reference of some kind. That's not the same as an advertisement or bundled adware.

@Kevin, webforf: fine by me. :)

Tried this app a while ago and while it works
well if you reduce the bitrate then when you
burn a CD it sounds like crapola-128 should
be the lowest setting for good listening.

It all depends on the complexity of the music -- but if you want CD-like quality you should stick with an average bit rate of around 192Kbps (preferably VBR, i.e. Variable Bit Rate); 128Kbps is considered to be Radio Quality...

Nowadays you get a lot of MP3 files encoded to CBR 320Kbps, hence the need for something like this -- it makes more manageable files, without loss of sound quality.

Midas you are correct however I burned the same CD at 128 and 192 and could not hear any difference-I have a 2 CD drive player on my home system and could not tell which was which.