# What is a good program to make an .mp3 Smaller? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [October 23, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-good-program-to-make-an-mp3-smaller/7087 "2002-10-23T15:26:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andersom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@andersom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andersom)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-good-program-to-make-an-mp3-smaller/7087/1 "2002-10-23T15:26:55Z")
What is a good program to make an .mp3 of 3,5 MB Smaller? Andreas ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-good-program-to-make-an-mp3-smaller/7087/2 "2002-10-23T21:24:28Z")
I dont know of any programs that encode/compress an mp3 down even smaller. You can do a few things, reduce the bit rate and stuff like that, however quality is sacraficed. I believe you really cant shrink an MP3 down further, because itself is compressed, and you cant compress a file thats compressed (well you can but ultimatly the file size remains the same)… What’ i’d do is, if you want to use a song in a flash movie, try to cut a piece of it out, and loop that small piece. ( you might have to do some work to make it sound right) but that’ll save you some space. Rather it being 3.5mb you take a chunk of it thats like 100k or less etc… Ive done it with the original Elvis’ Song “A little less conversation” but it took me a while to clean the audio so that it looped good and vocals removed and sounding ok. =) It can be done! =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-good-program-to-make-an-mp3-smaller/7087/3 "2002-10-23T21:39:40Z")
Microsoft’s Windows Media Encoder is good if you want to reduce the bitrate of an MP3 file. Are you interested in that? You will lose quality by doing that though ☹ Cheers! Kirupa 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-good-program-to-make-an-mp3-smaller/7087/4 "2002-10-25T08:10:14Z")
thanks for that, just tried and it worked i got it down from 4,5 to 1,5 and the quality is still alright… (not bad:-\ ) Thanks for all the replies. Andreas ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-good-program-to-make-an-mp3-smaller/7087/5 "2002-10-26T06:52:19Z")
what did you use to reduce it? Windows Media Encoder or What :q: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-good-program-to-make-an-mp3-smaller/7087/6 "2002-10-26T12:23:45Z")
I put the rate down fromit was 160 kbps (4,5 MB) and i put it down to 64kbps, mono (now it’s 1.5 mb) it will do for my Mp3 player… And the program i used was iTunes this has an build in program to Encode an Mp3… Thanx again for your fast reactions, Andreas ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-good-program-to-make-an-mp3-smaller/7087/7 "2002-10-26T18:02:19Z")
Here [http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/](http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/) is the perfect software (FREE) to cut your mp3’s if you just want a piece out of it! Hope that helps.