lid (Bill Godfrey) wrote:

Hiya. I'm looking for some sort of tool where I can feed in a stereo MP3
file and have it merge the two streams into a mono MP3? (But otherwise
retaining the full quality of sound that goes in.)

I'm hoping that by losing the useless extra stream, the MP3 file could take
up less space on my flash memory card.

(I still have the original CDs if that helps.)

retaining the full quality you could rerip the cd into mono, or rerip into stereo at
half the bitrate. using a flash memory card I suspect you may be using headphones to
listen with and not having stereo takes the sting out of music as all instruments and
vocals will seems as from the exact middle. IME it is a very daft experience. I find
that half the birate (or 3/4 or it) in stereo will be a better compromise.

Mikkel