DietMP3 04.03

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License:
Free to try; $15.00 to buy
Editor's Rating:
4.0 stars
Average User Rating:
2.5 stars (out of 16 votes) Rate it!
Downloads:
180,101
Requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Limitations:
15-file limit
Date Added:
February 13, 2005
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Publisher's description of DietMP3

From ENIACJIA SOFTWARE:

DietMP3 can significantly reduce (by 30 to 70 percent) the size of an original MP3 file with very minor loss in quality. Rip or grab CD tracks directly to "dieted" MP3 files. These small files allow you to put more songs onto your portable MP3 players without an expensive flash memory upgrade. If you prefer to burn onto a mini CD-R or CD-RW, DietMP3 can help you to place 30 to 70 percent more songs on a disc.

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Editor's review of DietMP3

4.0 stars
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It's hard to imagine an iPod getting any skinnier, but this program might help do the trick. DietMP3 takes MP3 files and reduces the size of the file, without any significant quality loss. At launch, the program picks up all types of files in a selected folder; you've got to manually pick and drop MP3 files into the program for compression. The Options window lets you designate what type of device you'll be playing the compressed files on, what quality level you'd like to achieve, the file type you'd prefer, and whether the files should play in stereo or mono. The program interface overall is very well designed, and pop-up program windows are very colorful, offering drop-down menus that are graphical rather than just a list. During testing, we compressed a number of MP3 files and found the process smooth and the output files of good quality. Overall, if you're a music junkie and want to squeeze every square millimeter out of your MP3 player, this is the program to use.

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1 stars

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Version: DietMP3 04.03

"It's a hoax indeed."

by rubencas on March 13, 2007

Pros: Absolutely none.

Cons: All this app does is re-encoding your mp3's to a lower bitrate, thus losing *a lot* of audio quality (don't believe what the authors are saying). Test the audio quality by listening to the "compressed" songs though Hifi music installation, quality headphones/speakers, ... and you'll hear immediately.
If you really want what this app does, then use any other audio program (which can re-encode too).
Don't download this crap software. Seriously!

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1 stars

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Version: DietMP3 04.03

"Its a hoax"

by asheeshsrivastava on January 3, 2007

Pros: None

Cons: The software converts the MP3 to 96 kbps. It assumes the original music to be in 128 kbps. However, if original music happens to have lesser kbps rating ((say 40 kbps) the output file size would increase significantly ! If you want to decrease the file size by reducing kbps, there are zillions of free utilities to convert MP3 rating. There is absolutely no need to buy this software.

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5 stars

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Version: DietMP3 04.03

"not a hoax~"

by flying peach on October 5, 2007

Pros: I just downloaded this program, and I found very little difference in music quality. I still haven't uploaded anything to my MP3 player, but this program seems to work just fine!

Cons: none so far~!

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4 stars

Version: DietMP3 04.03

"what i was looking for"

by borgulas on January 20, 2008

Pros: It shrank my 19mb mp3 file to 5mb. strong compress function

Cons: no great looks.

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1 stars

Version: DietMP3 04.03

"Not what I was expecting"

by Lisaane on December 14, 2007

Cons: I downloaded it to compress a podcast so that I could burn it to CD. When I played back the CD, however, I got the chipmunks version of the podcast! Definitely didn't work for my purposes!

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