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So I wanna have a very Bad sounding audio file for a song for meme purposes, and I can't any further compress the audio. I Just want very low quality and bad sounding audio. So yeah I don't know how to do that. I also use Ubuntu 20.04 and SoX will not work for me it just says this "sox FAIL formats: no handler for file extension `mp3'". i've tried about every audio file type with it and it just won't work. i've also done plenty or google searching and all I get is use SoX.

Is Linus A Instrument
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Re-encode at a lower bit rate, and use constant bit-rate (CBR).

ffmpeg is the tool you want to use. Try apt-get ffmpeg from a terminal as root. You may also need to install libmp3lame or similar.

Then:

ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -codec:a libmp3lame -b:a 128k output.mp3

Valid bit rates for MP3s are

8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 144, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320 kb/s

Anything under 128 is going to sound bad. Re-encode multiple times for more aliasing and even lower quality.

LawrenceC
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