[audacity4blind] Re: MP3 Audio Editors
- From: Steve the Fiddle <stevethefiddle@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 01:26:42 +0000
You will lose "something" even when working with very high quality
(256 kbps) MP3, but not a great deal.
The problem with MP3 quality loss is that it is cumulative.
In the first encoding to 256 kbps MP3, the quality losses are
virtually insignificant (most people cannot hear the difference from
the original audio at all).
Then you edit the file in Audacity and export as 256 kbps MP3 and
there is a bit more "insignificant" quality loss.
Keep doing that and the "insignificant" quality losses add up. It is a
one way street - there is no way to recover the lost quality, so it
only gets worse, and at some point the quality loss starts to sound
noticeably bad.
The best advice is to keep the audio in the best possible audio format
all the way through the production process, and convert to MP3 (if MP3
is required) as the final step. In these days of cheap and huge
capacity hard drives, it may not be necessary to use MP3 at all.
Steve
On 6 March 2015 at 00:53, William Brandes <geeksbygod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi. really don't understand the problem here. i have a zoom h2 which
> records in multiple mp3 bit rates. if i use audacity to edit, say a
> 256 bit rate mp3 file and save as 256 i don't lose anything to
> compression. only lose when saving to a lower bit rate ... william
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