Re: working with mp3 files

[ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com>]

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On Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:54 AM, Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:

> ghe2001 (12020-10-29):
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> > I had a very similar problem a few years ago. SoX will convert those
> > mp3s to files you can edit (I convert to flac and edit with audacity),
> > stick the edited files all together, and turn that big file back into
> > am mp3. Works real good (CLI, not GUI).
>
> Doing this with a lossy format like MP3 will worsen the quality, it is
> not a good idea.

Yeah, but he's starting with mp3, so I don't know of a better way to do it.

> MP3 is an elementary stream, with just a little noise at the beginning
> or the end for metadata: concatenation of the streams works.

How do you get rid of the metadata noise?  I've tried 'cating mp3s, and it didn't work very well at all.

Running through SoX makes fine sounding files.  (I've done all this with spoken word sources, though.  Like the ones OP has.)

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Glenn English
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