MP3 is the common name for the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3(III) or MPEG-2. It is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression.
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What lossy audio formats are more (or less) “efficient”? [closed]
This question is related to the answers I got to this question.
The bitrate-efficient format (see the question's most voted answers and their comments thereunder) would be one that assures a good ...
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Changing ID3 tags of music in iTunes with read-only attributes
When I add an mp3 file with read-only attributes to iTunes, iTunes does not allow me to change the file's ID3 tags or delete the file later. Removing the read-only attributes after adding the file ...
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extracting mp3 audio from mp4: audio longer than video?
I have an mp4 video that has no audio/video sync issue. I tried to extract audio to an mp3 file, following the suggestion in this thread: Extracting audio from MP4 video into MP3
ffmpeg -i ...
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How to trim a group of mp3 files with a specific timings
I am having trouble finding the way to trim bunch of mp3 files. The time from the beginning and time from the end is fixed across all the files and should be specified by the user.
I already tried ...
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How to record a mp3/m3u stream using VLC?
How do I capture/record directly from a MP3/M3U stream of a radio station, using VLC player, setting up VLC via its graphical user interface (GUI)?
I prefer the Windows version of VLC but ...
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Windows Media Player 12 Library import keeps dying
I cannot get WMP 12 to import my library. I have searched around various forums and tried all the common solutions like disabling Media Sharing, deleted my %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player ...
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Xbox Music only “matches” ~70% of the songs on most of my albums. How can I make it recognize the other songs?
When Xbox Music matches a song on my PC, it adds it to my "Xbox Music cloud". I can stream music from this cloud to all of my other devices.
The problem is, it fails to match at least 2-3 on most of ...
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Linux friendly MP3 player devices
I currently have a Creative Zen MP3 player, which I'm finding increasingly painful to use. I have to use the (shoddy) Windows based software to transfer files, I cannot mount it under Linux as a USB ...
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Universal sound format
I have the following devices:
Ubuntu machines
PSP
iPod with Rockbox installed
XBox 360
My music collection is mainly encoded in OGG apart from a few bought albums in MP3.
What is the most ...
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Convert mp3 to ogg vorbis
Is there a command-line utility to convert mp3s to ogg vorbis that I can install with apt-get?
Alternatively, is there an extension for nginx so I can point it to a directory with mp3 files and have ...
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Join multiple MP3 files (lossless)
How do you join multiple MP3 files into one? "cat" and "mp3wrap" are no good as they produce non standard MP3 files. I know I can use audacity, but when you have 1000's of MP3 files to join into ...
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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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Join many MP3, OGG, and FLAC files into one WAV or FLAC
I have 33 audio files, each about 11 seconds long, and I'd like to merge them into one lossless file. How can I do this efficiently (i.e. without cut-pasting in Audacity 33 times)?
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How to join MP3 files? [duplicate]
Motivation
I'm looking for a program that allows me to join a lot of mp3 files (an audio book) to a single large mp3 file. My mp3 player is able to remember the position inside a track, but it takes ...
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only .m4a files are able to be played with MPD 0.17 on os x snow leopard
I set up an MPD server on my iMac with Snow Leopard and the database displays my music collection correctly but in MPDroid and Theremin I am only able to select the .m4a files. I can see /mp3 files ...
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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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Batch remove track number from music files at a time
I have around 600 mp3 song files in a folder. All the tracks have a number before their names. I want to remove the track-number from all the files. Ya I know I can rename those files and delete the ...
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How to replace WMAs with MP3s
Around 60% of my music collection has been ripped using Windows Media Player and thus in WMA format. I want to convert them to MP3 so they are more compatible with other music players.
Is there a ...
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Converting MP3 to AAC and outputting to stdout
ffmpeg.exe -i s.mp3 -f aac -
This is the command I run but it doesn't recognize the format AAC.
Requested output format 'aac' is not a suitable output format pipe::
Invalid argument
However when ...
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WMP choppy file playback
Recently i've been having issues with Windows Media Player like certain files playing choppy. This doesn't happen the first time i play the files but after a few playbacks
I have enough processing ...
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How do you mark MP3 files so that Windows Phone (Zune software) treats them as Podcasts?
Exactly what it says in the title.
I ripped my Pimsleur Quick and Simple Spanish CDs to Zune so I could play them on my Windows Phone (had to edit their characteristics to get them all in the same ...
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Why isn't sox able to convert to mp3?
I installed Sox, i installed lame-398, but sox is not able to convert any file to mp3. It fails with the messages:
./../sox FAIL util: Unable to load LAME encoder library (libmp3lame).
./../sox ...
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How to play MP3 files into the microphone input
In a chat session, whenever I want the other person to hear a pre-recorded voice, I need to play it on my speakers and use my microphone to capture it. How can I play MP3 files into the microphone ...
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How do I extract (rip) tracks from an audio CD using cdrfte?
On its SourceForge page, it says that cdrfte (short for cdrtools front end) can extract files from CD in mp3 format. However, I can't find anything on its support wiki or anywhere else about how this ...
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How can I convert my mp3s to an iTunes-compatible format?
I've got a bunch of mp3s that iTunes just won't read or import. As far as I can tell they are just regular MP3s but obviously there is something iTunes doesn't like about them.
After a bit of ...
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Music organization into folders for Linux(Ubuntu/Debian)? [closed]
I have a few folders with randomly assorted music files. I'm looking for a tool or utility that can read the ID3 tags, and then build and populate a folder structure in the format:
some ...
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Convert mp4 to mp3
I would like to convert mp4 (video included) to mp3 (without video). what is the best way of doing this apart from using audacity (or similar software) and performing manual conversion (recording as ...
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Good software for recording podcasts on the Mac (OSX)
I'm looking for a piece of simple software that'll allow me to easily :
Record Audio
Perform basic editing (cut out a section, increase the volume)
Save to MP3.
People talk about Audacity, but I ...
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Mp3 Tag Editor Open Source Windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows: What software do you recommend for editing MP3 ID3 tags?
Can someone inform me of an open source mp3 tag editor that is on Windows? Audacity doesn't let me ...
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mp3 url's won't play
I'm on a macbook and when useing firefox, MP3's called up from a public url don't load or play anymore. They used to. I'm just looking at a blank screen with the copied url on the tab. But they play ...
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mp3 compression MPEG1 vs MPEG2
I'm using CDex for converting wav to mp3, and want to ask you guys what version to use;
MPEG I has max of 320kbps
MPEG II has max of 160kbps
MPEG II.5 has max of 160kbps
I'm looking for a better ...
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ID3 tags are read incorrectly
Recently, I re-ripped quite a few of my CDs at a higher bitrate using CDex. However, I wasn't aware that the default setting of ID3v2.4 would cause problems with Windows Media Player (Win7x64) as well ...
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Split MonkeyAudio (.ape + .cue + .log) of whole audio CD into MP3 of individual tracks
I have a whole audio CD ripped to single audio file in MonkeyAudio (.ape) format, together with .cue and .log files (using Exact Audio Copy, from comment in .cue file).
How would one split this one ...
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Program / Script / Method to rename EAC-ripped album of MP3s using Masks
tl;dr: skip to last paragraph
I’ve recently changed the filename format that I use in Exact Audio Copy when ripping CDs. I have changed it so that for various-artist CDs, the track number then CD ...
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What good, free audio CD ripping/extraction tools exist for Windows, and supporting multiple formats? [closed]
What good, free audio CD ripping/extraction tools exist for Windows, and supporting multiple formats?
For instance, I would like to rip my commercial audio CDs to MP3s for portable-player use, and to ...
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MP3 as a Windows System Codecs
I am busy trying to convert some sound files (different formats) to MP3. I know there's a ton of different apps out there that would allow you to do this, but I prefer the simplicity of Winamp and ...
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Access audio from Linux server on iPad Mini [closed]
This is driving me crazy, I'm trying to enable playback of mp3s/flac audio stored on a home linux server on a iPad mini.
Please can someone explain what software is required on the linux side of ...
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How can I edit many music files in the same unique way? [duplicate]
I have a lot of audio files that I want to change in different ways depending on which ones they are. Is there a way on Windows 7 or a program that can do the following?
Turn all lower cased files ...
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software to find audio gaps in linux?
I'm trying to find gaps of silence in audio in my mp3 files of 3 seconds or more. I looked through the ffmpeg documentation to see if it could do it, but I don't think it can. Is there any software ...
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How do I split an MP3 file without re-encoding it?
I have a 400 MB MP3 file at 96kbps, taken from a CD. I want to split this into many files.
Is there any way to do that without affecting the quality of audio or maybe without re-encoding the file?
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Creating video with audio and still image for YouTube
I'm running the following command:
ffmpeg -i audio.mp3 -ar 44100 -f image2 -i logo.jpg -r 15 -b 1800 -s 640x480 foo.mov
Which successfully outputs a video with my recorded audio and an image on it.
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How to convert PCM to MP3?
I have some .pcm files and I want to convert them to high quality .mp3 format. How can I do that? I've tried searching online but haven't found any programs that can do this.
Ay suggestions? ...
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Command-line ID3 tag editor that handles all tags
I am looking for a tool to edit tags in MP3s through a script.
The files are episodes of several podcasts where the tags are inconsistent between episode: Sometimes the Album or Genre tag is missing ...
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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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Tool to help compare mp3 bitrate quality?
So I've got 2 mp3 files
320 kbps
192 kbps
However it's hard for me to notice any differences at all (it seems there's none). Is there a tool to help compare bitrate quality? I wanna find out what ...
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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 to convert mp3 to flac
Can someone tell me how to convert a mp3 audio file to flac format using ffmpeg? I Googled extensively, but almost all resources point to converting flac to mp3, something like ffmpeg -i "input.flac" ...
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Software to find duplicate MP3s by 'listening' to them?
Most of the software which find duplicate MP3 files depend on filenames, or Tag IDs or file size. I consider these dumb tools because they are not reliable. I can have two MP3's which are the same ...
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Free tool to join mp3 files with their ends overlapping [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Join multiple MP3 files (lossless)
I need a free software tool, so that I can join hundreds of small mp3 files into one.
I know there are several mp3 cutters and joiner ...
