increase music bitrate

[hammad1029]

I have a collection of hundreds of songs that are on either 128KBPS or 192KBPS

Is there an easy way to increase that bitrate to 320KBPS or do I have to download all of them again?

Thanks in advance!

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You can reencode them to 320 kbps if you'd like to make the files larger for no reason, but if you actually want a higher quality one you will have to find new copies.  It's the same as a photo - you can stretch it but despite what CSI would have you believe, there's no way to get more resolution out of thin air after it's already been taken.

[hammad1029]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

you can reencode them to 320 kbps if you'd like to make the files larger without increasing quality, but if you actually want a higher quality one you will have to find new copies.

Yea I want to increase the quality. So there's no way to do that? kill me :'(

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Just now, hammad1029 said:

Yea I want to increase the quality. So there's no way to do that? kill me :'(

I mean there's various algorithms you could try listening to them through or maybe some day someone will make an AI, but even in those cases, it's just a guess at what the original sounded like.  You can't regain the detail that was thrown out in the initial compression though any means of reprocessing, it's just not physically possible.

[Enderman]

You can increase them to 320Kbps but it will just make the file larger without increasing quality.

You need to download them from a 320kbps source if you want an increase in quality.

[hammad1029]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I mean there's various algorithms you could try listening to them through or maybe some day someone will make an AI, but even in those cases, it's just a guess at what the original sounded like.  You can't regain the detail that was thrown out in the initial compression though any means of reprocessing, it's just not physically possible.

oh okay then. Me being the useless guy I am, I'll just redownload them

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1 minute ago, hammad1029 said:

oh okay then. Me being the useless guy I am, I'll just redownload them

That would be best