How do I reduce quality of a music file?

If I have a music file on my hard disk which was imported from cd using Windows Media Player or other, how can I reduce the quality of it from 128kbps to 64 kbps? (or any other size)
Can you do this on itunes? I know you can set the quality if importing from CD but what about just a file? Do you have to use other software to do this? Anyone know how to do it? Thanks.

Stephen,
Can you do this on itunes?
Yes you can and I'll tell you how but first a quick trip to the department of unsolicited advice which may, or may not, be of concern to you: what you're proposing is not the best strategy from an audio fidelity point of view, not least because a 64 kbps copy of a 128 kbps "original" will provide worse quality than importing from a CD original @ 64 kbps would.
Now back to your question. Assuming the songs are in an iTunes-compatible format and are now in your iTunes Library, change the settings in the iTunes Edit menu > Preferences > Advanced tab > Importing sub-tab for the format you're working with to Custom > 64 kbps.
This will affect songs you import with iTunes in the future but if you select one of the songs you want to convert in the main iTunes display and then go to the Advanced menu > Convert Selection to ..., iTunes will create a file at the newly-selected encoding rate. The 128 kbps file will remain in the Library as well but you can delete it if you desire.

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