Here's something which surprised and pleased me very much today. I
sincerely dislike overprocessed MP3 files, and, perhaps because I'm a
musician have a genuine aversion to files which have been dramatically
time-compressed. Today, though, I needed to cram as many Audible.com
books as possible onto a one-gigabyte card. I can generally expect to
transfer about a dozen before the card becomes full. Well, I
time-compressed eighteen files using a setting of 1.1 (the lowest
available setting) and pause-compressed them at a rate of 65% (a
moderately high amount.) Those eighteen files actually fit into a space
which normally holds around a dozen. They don't sound too processed, and
the pause compression was so judiciously done that I hardly notice it. If
you've never before experimented with altering the absolute size of files,
especially based on immediate need, work with those compression tools and
you can achieve an overall effect which might make you very happy, while
reducing the size of those audio files quite markedly.
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