MP3 is effectively the standard audio format for consumer audio storage and for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players. It uses a lossy compression algorithm which, while removing some information, is "good enough" for most everyday uses. For more information see the Wikipedia ...
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Rip concert DVD to MP3
If I have a concert DVD—that I own legitimately—is there any way to rip the tracks to MP3?
The end goal is to get the music onto my iPod and or iPhone, and so if there are any workarounds—short of ...
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audacity - convert multiple .aup's to .mp3's
I have a bunch of about 130 .aup files (all recordings of vinyls) that I would like to convert to mp3. Each .aup is an entire side of the vinyl (I don't want to split the tracks - the whole side as ...
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iTunes and Unicode ID3 Tags
I'm using MP3Tag for tagging my MP3s since a long time and it creates very good results.
With iTunes (of course not with other MP3 programs e.g. Winamp) I always have problems after first import of ...
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How to convert a CD into MP3 files with just Windows XP & Windows Media Player 9?
How can I convert a CD into MP3 files with Windows XP and Windows Media Player 9?
At first sight it seems it can only save WMA files.
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Dump/load metadata with FFmpeg (WMA to MP3)
I need to convert WMA metadata into MP3 ID3 tags. FFmpeg should be able to dump them into a file and load them back to another using implemented mappers. I cannot find syntax of usage though:
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Can I e-mail as WAV file and get back a MP3 file? [closed]
Is there a service where I could e-mail as WAV file and get it back a MP3 file?
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How to make the folder name as Album tag for mp3?
I have a bunch of mp3 and when I import them in Banshee, it's all messed up. The mp3 files I have are organized by folder and I would like to make the folder name as the album tag for the mp3, so that ...
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My itunes library files now start with “original” in the filename. How to fix?
Not sure what happened, but I think an app I was looking at as an alternative to iTunes at one point, may have hosed my music library.
In trying to clean up and de-dupe my music library, I have found ...
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Batch convert .wav to mp3 and ogg?
I have a few hundred .wav files that I need to convert to both ogg and mp3 format. Is there a way that I can do this in batch either from Audacity or from some other command line tool?
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convert IMG with CUE to MP3 (or maybe others, like FLAC, OGG, …)
I'm searching for some tool which can convert some IMG+CUE file to MP3 (or other formats).
It should be:
easy-to-use (i.e. preferable a GUI; or if console-only, straight-forward to use, without ...
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Automating music transcode
I want to be able to transcode my music library (lots of nested folders, no space) to a different bitrate. I've been doing this manually with Media Coder, but I've noticed that not every file ends up ...
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Find music videos in bulk
I have a fairly large MP3 collection, that I would like to upgrade to a music video collection. Basically what I want to do is go through all my songs and find matching music videos. I plan on doing ...
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Auto analyze audio and rename ID tags [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto-tagging MP3s
I used several applications for iOS platforms such as: Soundhound, Shazam. They work like that: First records music from mic, then searches it over ...
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How do I embed album art in an MP3 in iTunes?
In each folder I have the cover art, for example:
/Adele
/Adele/21
/Adele/21/cover.jpg
cover.jpg is the album art. How do I embed that into my MP3s in iTunes?
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How to store iTunes cover art as mp3 id tag?
iTunes shows nice cover arts for all my mp3 songs. Unfortunately most of them are stored in the iTunes data base and not as mp3 id tags. This makes them useless, if I use the mp3 files with other ...
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Program to dump ID3 tag structure
Is there a program that would dump the complete structure of ID3v2 tags?
Not just the frame names and values, but full information such as frame order, text encoding, description encoding (for TXXX ...
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Join Audio and 2 Images Output as Video using FFmpeg and Video should be acceptable by youtube
I know this question is similar to the question here Join Audio and Image -> Output as Video using FFmpeg, But my requirement is bit more.
I want to join to 2 image files with an audio file to ...
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How does one extract audio from a video (DVD movie) using Windows? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Software to get audio from home DVDs?
I have a DVD movie from which I would like to extract the audio, preferably to MP3, so I can listen to it -- it's an interview ...
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Windows 7 Media Player not playing MP3 files from USB drive
I have Windows 7.
I plug in a USB stick containing MP3 files
I open Windows Media Player and select the drive letter of my USB stick, I then see all my music nicely grouped into artist and album ...
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Mac- or Unix-compatible utility to compute and compare LAME MusicCRC in MP3s?
The LAME encoder stores a CRC16 checksum of the audio stream in the header of every MP3 it encodes. The 'actual' audio checksum can then be computed and compared to the original value at a later date ...
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How to automate the process of organizing audio files on Windows
My library is a mess and manually organizing it in Windows Explorer is painful.
I know MediaMonkey Gold provides tools to automatically organize your library folders, however are there any ...
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Side-effects of wiping my library of ID3v1 tags
Unfortunately, Google Music does weird things with how it interprets my music. I'm really kind of crazy with how I tag and manage my music collection; I spent a long time last year going through every ...
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set CD number from folder name [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to organize music?
Set track number from file name in MP3 music management software
I have 278 MP3 files, arranged by the CD they came from. I have 27 folders ...
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Set track number from file name in MP3 music management software
I have .mp3 files, whose names and titles are their track numbers.
For example: "Track01.mp3" (the internal title property reads "Track01")
How do I let my MP3 management software know that it's ...
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Advanced ID3 tags handling and audio files ordering
Some of my files do not have complete ID3 tags and some have typos or small differences in writing – so finally, my portable player sees “Mr. President” as different artist from “Mr President” and so ...
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Windows: downloading of a wmv file (is it stream)?
Win7/x64.
I saw a website that containing a report.
http://www.dunatv.hu/gazdasag/varga_istvan_szerint_milliardok_hianyoznak.html
It is uses Windows Media Player plugin that I installed under ...
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How to release a music collection from SonicStage
I have a friend who used SonicStage to digitize his music collection. Now he wants to be export the music to a more accessible format (for example mp3). The program is a few years old, and the only ...
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What stereo receivers allow you to play music from a USB hard drive?
Like many of you, I have my entire CD collection ripped to my PC, along with other music I've acquired through iTunes or Amazon MP3. Of course, this is much more music than will fit on a single ...
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MP3 CD in Car stereo [closed]
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question, so if it isn't feel free to move or delete it.
(I am using Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion))
I burned an MP3 CD (let's call it CD 1) with about 80 ...
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Is there media player with support of multiple genre tags
A lot of songs have multiple genre, for example a song can be jazz, electronic and vocal. I'd like to be able to find the song when I look at either of the genres.
I use foobar and it doesn't have ...
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How to find out if a CD was burned from MP3s [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Finding out if a FLAC or WAVPACK audio file is NOT originally encoded from a lossy source
I would like to know if it is possible to assess whether a CD was burned from ...
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FFMPEG able to convert m4a -> mp3, but unable to convert mp3 -> mp3?
FYI: Fedora 8 running on Amazon EC2...
Having a difficult time with FFmpeg doing a (what should be pretty simple) conversion. I can get FFmpeg to encode an mp3 file from an m4a file using the ...
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how to create or extract a silent mp3 from a video file using ffmpeg or mencoder?
I am looking to create an mp3 of silence that is the same duration as the input video file using either ffmpeg or mencoder.
Using ffmpeg I have tried this:
ffmpeg -y -i in.avi -ab 8k -ac 1 -vol 0 ...
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Why does Album Cover Art Downloader (Linux) not find any album cover art?
I installed the Ablum cover Art Downloader on my OpenSuse11.4 laptop, but no matter how simple I make the search terms, the program does not find a thing.
I already tried all combinations of ...
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Identify differences between MP3 files
I have 2 old similar directory trees with MP3 files in them. I am happily using tools like diff and Rsync to identify and merge the files that are only present on one side, or are identical, I'm left ...
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Non-destructive audio normalization with mp3gain
I tried mp3gain but it do alters mp3 frames (adding an undo tag also) - I decoded the gained mp3 into wav with lame and I got it different. The same time foobar2000 just introduces a tag and nothing ...
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Is there a command-line tool that converts tags to id3v2.3?
I've recently been ripping more of my CDs and have noticed that there seems to be no command-line tool that allows for converting to id3v2.3. The only tool I've found that can actually even properly ...
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How do I connect an iPhone to my PC to load MP3s to it?
How can I connect my iPhone to my PC so I can download mp3's to it? I also want to update the OS on the phone.
I have an iPod, but the connector doesn't seem to fit.
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Most efficient way to convert a large ALAC library to MP3
I have a large library of CDs ripped to alac which I use as my main music library. I'd like to convert a copy of this library to vbr mp3 for portable devices, however I don't want to have to do this ...
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How can I download a whole playlist from YouTube to MP3?
I would be happy if I had a cross-platform (Linux and Windows) tool for automatically downloading and converting a whole playlist from YouTube to MP3.
An add-on for Firefox would be very desirable, ...
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What tools similar to Tag&Rename exist?
I've got a media library consisting of a set of roughly 8000 MP3 (purchased from Amazon MP3), AAC (purchased from the iTunes Music Store - Unencrypted), and FLAC (ripped from my own physical disks) ...
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How can I convert RealPlayer RM files to MP3s in OS X?
How can I convert RealPlayer RM files to MP3 format (and other iPod-compatible formats) in OS X?
I've found a lot of software for Windows but nothing for OS X. I've also given Switch Free edition a ...
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Auto tagger like in Winamp [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto-tagging MP3s
Could you tell me is there any tool able to auto tag mp3 files like it's done in Winamp?
By doing it Winamp's way I mean by using Gracenote CDDB.
It ...
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Is there a tool that can detect (and if possible, fix) glitches in MP3 files?
My collection contains some MP3s which have some glitches like
displaying the wrong duration on loading
minor jumps
suddenly ending despite the duration claims another minute remaining
noise
I'm ...
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Windows 7 Media Player won't add MP3 files
I have a set of MP3 files that Windows Media Player just refuses to add to the library. They are placed in the standard My Music folder. I play them in media player. They just won't be listed in the ...
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Why is VLC lagging when playing MP3 files over my LAN?
I'm using VLC 1.1.7 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 for listening to MP3s stored on my NAS, which is a QNAP device. My MacBook Pro is connected via Gigabit LAN over a Linksys WRT-610N router.
Problem:
Every file ...
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Converting a bunch of MP3s to mono?
I have a bunch of stereo MP3s I'd like to convert to mono. What is the best way to do this? I would prefer something that would let be batch process them. I want to keep the quality as close to the ...
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Automatically convert WAV files into MP3 files on Mac
Someone already had similar question but he wanted to convert FLAC into MP3. In my case I want to convert WAV into MP3 and the solution in the other question doesn't help me.
Workflow would be the ...
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How to identify music after ripping an audio CD? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto-tagging MP3s
I've just ripped some audio CDs that I've burned a while back. Since I made the CDs, I mostly know what songs are on, but it would be a pain to rename ...
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How to trim the first 10 seconds from a batch of mp3?
This was asked before, Mass MP3 audio file editor, but I'm wondering if things have changed by now. I'm also ok with any solution that works for any OS, and even CLI.
ffmpeg doesn't do the trick (the ...
