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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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Is there a way to tag MP3 the way you can do with Photos in Live Photo Gallery or Picazza?

I really do love the way you can tag pictures in Windows Live Photo Gallery. I find it incredibly useful to be able to tag the same picture with the tag "Cancun" and have it been automatically ...
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Convert windows media video stream to mp3 audio?

I'd like to take a windows media video stream and convert it to mp3 audio. Using mencoder I can convert from windows media video to avi but not directly from windows media to mp3. The following is the ...
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How to improve sound quality of music files and maintain interoperability

I'm thinking about spending some time re-ripping my CDs. The last time I did this was a while ago when I was somewhat limited in Hard Drive space. So I encoded all my music at a somewhat thrifty 160kb ...
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ffmpeg: What are reasonable values for -aq when creating mp3?

Using ffmpeg to convert audio files into mp3 (using -acodec libmp3lame). There is a ffmpeg parameter -aq, which is explained in the help as -aq quality set audio quality (codec-specific) ...
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Audio MD5 Checksum with ffmpeg

I'm getting these results under Windows (ffmpeg version N-78636-g45d3af9) ffmpeg.exe -i TEST.mp3 -c:a copy -f md5 - MD5=cb017003b355c2b39d71e8020bd76f5b ffmpeg.exe -i TEST.mp3 -f md5 - MD5=...
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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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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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automatically tag mp3 collection using shazam-like acoustic fingerprint

is there any software freely available to clean up the tags in your music collection , based on some sort of audio fingerprint type technology (like how 'shazam' app works on the iphone) combined with ...
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Programs to automatically download album covers and insert them in to ID3 tags? [closed]

Let us assume that I have a perfectly tagged MP3 collection - at the very least Artist and Album Name are all intact. The only lacking thing is the album covers. What tool should I use? I note there ...
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How to make JPG images that can be played as music files

I came across a strange image: Apparently, somehow they managed to make a JPG file also play as a media file. I'd like to know what program you use to do this.
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Any good mp3 volume normalizer? [closed]

I tried to use MP3Gain to keep mp3 files with the same volume. The problem is: when I re synchronize all files into my IPod, some musics get too loud. So, it seems MP3Gain is not fixing volume at ...
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Micro sound breaks/interrupts on Windows 7

I've been experiencing strange behavior recently. When listening to mp3 or watching movie or whatever that uses sound, I get micro breaks in sound. It's like it hangs or cuts a fragment for about 0.5s....
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Copy MP3s to CD / USB key and reduce bitrate

I want a quick way to be able to select a bunch of MP3s and burn them to CD (as MP3s on a data disk) for playback in the car, or to a usb key. Lots of apps including iTunes & Windows Media Player ...
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Is it practical to use JungleDisk as a music library? [closed]

My hard drives have crashed too many times for me to want to continue keeping my music library at home, so I want to put it on JungleDisk. I have an account, I have the mp3s, but in terms of ...
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How to enable MP3, M4a support for Amarok?

How to enable MP3, M4A support for Amarok? I am using the following: Amarok Version 2.0.1 KDE 4.1.3 openSUSE 11.1
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Why won't a mp3 CD play in car player but plays on computer?

What could be the reasons for a new car CD player (has the markings: RDS, MP3 and CompactDisc) not to play MP3 files from a CD, that normally is read on every computer or so? The plaser in the car ...
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Adding more than one image as album art to mp3 via command line

I want to add two images (front and back cover) to my converted mp3s. At this time I convert all my WAVs with lame, then I convert the ID3 tag version from 2.3 to 2.4 via eyeD3 and then I will add two ...
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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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Mass convert MP3 with Big5 / GB encoded tags to unicode

Most people in asia still used localized version of windows (simplied chinese - GB , traditional chinese - Big5, Japanese - JIS) As a result, a lot of mp3 files I got from them have the tags encoded ...
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Looking for a software / something to automate some simple audio processing

I'm looking for a way to take a 1-hour podcast MP3 file and split it into several several 2-minute MP3s. Along the way, I'd like to also do a few things like Amplify the volume. The problem I'm ...
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How can I include possibly several embedded cover art when converting mp3 to mkv using ffmpeg?

I wish to include embedded cover art when converting an mp3 file to mkv (vorbis). ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.mkv will render a file that does play (in mpv) showing an image but the moment I try to ...
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"ffmpeg -ss" supported formats for accurate seeking? mp3 does not appear to work, only .wav

ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 -i 'input.mp3' -to 00:25:00 -c copy output.mp3 I noticed while scripting that this particular script that it works for mp3 files but not for .wav files. What happens is it copies (...
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Stripping metadata from MP3 files

Is there a way I can bulk strip mp3 meta data from files? Preferably from the command line on OS X or Linux? I recently tried to use TuneUp (an app that is supposed to located mis-named tracks and ...
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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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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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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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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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iTunes: How do you manage your Singles?

I am having a tough time getting some kind of organization to happen with my singles in itunes. I enjoy electronic music and ultimately have a tons of songs that have been released as singles and ...
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Easy mass ripping of CD's? [closed]

I have tens of CD's that I wish to rip (so to be able to listen to on my computer). What (free) software (for PC, but also for Mac would be interesting) can help me get the most ripping in the least ...
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Editing tags in bunch of MP3 files?

I have a bunch of files whose filename looks like "<Track> - <Title> - <Artist>.mp3". I'd like to rewrite their MP3 Title tag to be "<Track> - <Title>.mp3" so that each ...
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What is the best (free) way to play or convert .amr files on a computer? [closed]

I record numerous sound files (record notes) on my sony ericsson cell phone. I would like to play these files continuously one after another on my computer but they are .amr audio files which windows ...
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Cover art of mkv file not being added when converting to mp3 file

I have an mkv file, only with audio, and I attached a cover art to it, but when I convert it to mp3 the art is not added to the mp3. The command I used to attach the cover art was the only one that ...
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Can MP3 contain AAC?

Can the container format MP3 contain an audio with a codec of ACC? I know that the MP3 container format can contain audio with a codec or MP3 (MP3 is a container and a codec); I thought that was the ...
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What does overread mean when transcoding an MP3 file to OPUS with FFMPEG?

Some times when I transcode particular MP3 files to OPUS using a command like this: ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -vn -c:a libopus -b:a 32k -vbr on -compression_level 10 -frame_duration 60 -application voip ...
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Play audio multiple times while overlaying (i.e., concurrently) from command line

I'm trying to play a 3 tolls sound using a single toll audio file in bash. I want the sound to overlay each other. The single toll duration is 4 seconds. I want that: the first toll starts while ...
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Fix or Remove album names from multiple songs

I've got some 50 odd different album's songs from a friend. But all those songs are tagged with a some same album name. This is incorrect. I need to either fix album name correctly for each song or ...
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Combining multiple MP3 files from a specific day

Everyday I have about 10 different mp3 files created on my server. What I would like to do is setup a cronjob to run at night and combine the current days tracks into one mp3 track. I don't care so ...
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Lots of AlbumArt_{*} files in my Music folder

I have recently migrated over my files from Windows to Mac OS and have noticed that my Music folder contains many AlbumArt_{*}.jpg files. First of all I would like to know where these files are ...
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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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How does Amarok rip Audio CDs (in Ubuntu Lucid)?

I'm in the process of moving my CD collection into my Amarok library. Mostly, it works great. Sometimes however, the process just hangs forever. The problem seems to occur at random (i. e. often, but ...
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Problem with Music Details

I have some music files and the information doesn't show up. Here they are in explorer: As you can see, there is no information for track, title, artist, or album. This prevents me from syncing the ...
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youtube-dl set sample rate on mp3?

I am using youtube-dl and I'm using the following command: youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 %dl% This appears to use 48000Hz sample rate by default. I want to use ...
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Windows reading entire audio file on open

I spotted some slightly odd behaviour whilst playing with some MP3 files under Windows 7 (32-bit) I recently purchased from Amazon. They are stored on a network (Samba) share and, in essence, there ...
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How to concatenate several short audio MP3 files with a specific overlap duration

I have MP3 files that tend to be very short, like 1 second, containing syllables of words. I would like to have an overlap (end of one merged with the beginning of the next one). I have found several ...
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Mixing two sounds in ffmpeg going wrong

I've come across a certain problem and couldn't find a solution anywhere, so: I have two files, f1.mp3 which is a common mp3 file, some sounds that's all, and f2.mp3 which is mostly silence but has ...
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Normalize and remove silence from mp3s

I have a large number of audio files, each of which contains the pronounciation of a certain word. I need to batch process these files such that they all sound equaly loud when I'm finished with them. ...
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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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Display song lyrics in iTunes (from ID3 tags)

I've added lyrics to all the songs in my music library. Now, I'm looking for a way to display those lyrics in iTunes, and falling pretty short. I've seen a few widgets, but they all seem to focus on ...
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Media player for Windows with recommendation system like in Amarok

I'm looking for a media player for Windows which supports automatic recommendations like in Amarok, something other than Amarok.
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How-to build a view in winamp where every artist that only has 1 song is excluded?

I have tried to use the edit view feature in winamp. I edit the current audio view and add a filter saying tracks not equal 1. However, no matter what I do I can't seem to make it work. What I'm ...
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