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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: mp3-editor?Re: mp3-editor?
From: ajf <ajf_at_midmaine.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:22:01 -0500 Yes, exactly. The compression algorithm is lossy, so each time you compress a WAV to MP3, you lose something. I have used both Cool Edit 2000($70) and Audacity (freeware) and they do expand an MP3 on the way in and recompress it when saving. I haven't (yet) seen a visual audio editor that works natively in MP3. OTOH, if all you want to do is tracking or simple signal processing (compression, normalization), there's a product called Audiotools ($20) which will do that. It breaks a long set into tracks based on detecting silence, or several more complex algorithms, or else you can do it manually while listening. It's not a visual editor -- more of a batch file processor. Matthew P. OReilly writes: > That's true - I had forgotten about that. (It's been a while since I did > any compressed editing.) > > What is it about re-compression that causes quality loss? If something is > compressed, uncompressed, then compressed again, shouldn't it be a function > of the quality of the recompression algorithm Received on 2003-03-26 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |