Hi
My situation is this I have weged my laptop with music and want to compress it. most of it did not come from CDs so copying anew is not really an option, I have limited space on my drives and I lisitan to my music from my laptop, no Ipod or anything else. the programs I comonly use are itunes win mediaplayer(latest ver) real player and sometimes creative mediasource player, I'm not adverse to downloading something new if it's not too fiddely & it's got good browsing. I use really good quality head phones so quality is a factor, what's the point of having a ton of music if it's so bad you wouldn't listian to it. the files are in acc and mpeg lots of diffrent bit rates. so is there some way I can select all my music and compress/convert it with out runeing it, my few expirements ended up enlarging the file size of my test files.
Any help would be greatfuly accepted and I'll report back how it went
And should anyone wonder I did look thorugh this website but while I found some good info and leads, a lot of valuable info was not there so I don't want to commit my self to any coars of action that might wreck things.

If they're already in AAC or MP3 or other lossy formats, you don't have the original CD to rerip from, and you don't want quality deterioration, you basically can't do much to compress them by any significant amounts.

Oh well it was worth looking into I supose. thanks for the info Znode.