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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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REPLAYGAIN value being ignored on some MP3's - FFmpeg Transcoder cs - process Error Data Received:454

I am having an issue per below. I use Windows, and just installed ffmpeg-2024-03-07-git-97beb63a66-full_build, which did not correct it. I have added Track ReplayGain to my music library using Foobar. ...
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I need help installing FFMPEG on my server

I'm trying to get FFMPEG installed on my VPS. Plesk Obsidian Version 18.0.59 Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Basically, I need FFMPEG installed, as the custom MP3 player I use for my website can generate audio ...
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Specifying audio bitrate of MP3 does not work as expected

I converted bitrate of audio file using ffmpeg which I built by myself. But option -b:a 32k will create actually 96kbps file. Are there any precautions when building? I built ffmpeg with the next ...
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Disable Explorer's music style for folders containing mp3 files

Windows has this annoying feature that uses different Explorer options for folders containing music files like ogg or mp3. It removes the file size, it make the name column extremely narrow and it ...
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my ffmpeg livestream keeps crashing: How do I troubleshoot?

I can't find the reason on why it is crashing, all I have is a list of mp3 files which are encoded to AAC on the fly. stream.sh #!/bin/bash ffmpeg \ -stream_loop -1 -re \ -i video.mp4 \ -safe 0 \ -f ...
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Can I use Git to track MP3 and AAC metadata without corrupting files?

I have a collection of roughly 7k (40GB) MP3 and AAC files, these files I have collected over the years and put through different players and organisers. Unfortunately during that time some of these ...
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Concatenated mp3 stop playing at 15s on some players (e.g. iTunes)

I have mp3 file and I can not figure out why it stops playing at 15s even thought it is 12 minutes long. ffprobe returns: Duration: 00:12:02.30, start: 0.023021, bitrate: 131 kb/s I figured that ...
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How do I change the metadata items which scroll when playing mp3s in Windows Media Player without losing any of the track's information?

I would like to show the following metadata items "Title", "Year" and "Contributing artists" in that sequence, not "Title", "Contributing artists" and ...
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ffmpeg make a video from two images and two audio files

I'm trying to create an MP4 video from two images and two mp3 audio files, this is my command: ffmpeg -hide_banner -loop 1 -i incoming/img0.jpeg -loop 1 -i incoming/img1.jpeg -i incoming/aud0.mp3 -i ...
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ffmpg voice + base - base must end when the entry with the cut at the beginning ends

I'm experimenting with a bat command to manage audio tracks. My goal is to create tracks with vocals and music for a podcast. I managed to mix the file which contains only one recording of the voice, ...
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How to query media file metadata using ffprobe, e.g., track number?

I want a single command to retrieve track number (or other metadata) from an audio file using ffprobe.
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Consistant volume across all audio files

I am having a difficult time getting all my audio balanced at the same volume I have tried different things normalising all tracks to the same level doesn't work mp3gain doesn't work both if the ...
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FFMPEG: Sync issue between mp3 and mp4 converted from the same input webm file

Using this command to create 2 files : ffmpeg -y -i input.webm -c:v copy -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 128k -strict -2 -f mp4 rec_50ae1a2a3da64cf1a5f46c53de757d6e-1692704540213.mp4 -vn -acodec libmp3lame -b:a ...
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Providing administrator permission to change rating on mp3s

I'm trying to change the rating of mp3s in a Windows 11 environment with Windows Explorer via the Details Pane. It works on some files, but on others, I get this error message: You'll need to provide ...
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What formats of audio or video files can store bookmarks?

Does mp3 file format allows me to store timestamps as named tags in the play of an mp3 file? For example, I want to bookmark places in an audio book, corresponding to the bookmarks/outlines of its pdf ...
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How do you use Ffmpeg to give unique title/track names (%02d) using -metadata when spliting a .mp3 file?

(ffmpeg version 6.0-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev) I've successfully split a .mp3 file & given it unique names using "XX_%02d.mp3" in the following command: XX_01, XX_02 etc. How do I ...
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Trying to Batch Merge MP3 Audio and MP4 Video files

This is what I got so far... for %%a in ("*.mp4") do _ffmpeg -i ("*.mp3") -c copy "__newfiles\%%~na.mp4" But doesnt quite work... ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.wav -c ...
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Give Windows 10 music metadata to non-audio files/directories

I currently have a large directory with a ton of subdirectories, each one has an MIDI file, PDF (sheet music), and MP3. I'd like to add metadata to these files (such as artist name, song title, album, ...
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Why does the same timestamp represent different points in an MP3 in different media players?

I have an MP3 file that's 11 minutes long. When I jump to, say, 6:15 in the song in some media players (VLC, the web browser), that timestamp represents a different point in the song than in other ...
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How to improve quality of mp3 output after applying filters?

I'm trying to increase the pitch of a mp3 file while more or less preserving the same tempo: ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -filter:a "atempo=0.8,asetrate=44100*1.3" output.mp3 It works, but the ...
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Asterisk not playing Audio in BackGround or MP3Player APP

Hi Everyone in Asterisk 18 Cooked on a Centos 7 Server when I want to play a wav file, mono pcm s16 le 8000 hz lets called MyWavFile.wav I try to play it ether way whit application BackGround or ...
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How to control bitrate (by time) of MP3 - different CBR/VBR in different sections?

I have a audio file several hours in length which is 85% talking, and 15% music. I want the talking to have a VBR ~64 kbps - and the music to be 256 kbps. Setting just 1 VBR across the file doesn't ...
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MP3 Audio file changes -- want to preserve ID3 tags and minimize quality degredation: is FLAC the best intermediate format?

I have MP3 files on which I need to perform some audio operations, then get them back to MP3. I know every operation degrades them a little bit, so my goal is just to minimize that. I need to use both ...
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Converting several files in a folder with ffmpeg rather than just one at a time

My MP3 collection is by default saved at a bit-rate of 32k. I like to shrink them down as far as I can before loading on to my “daily driver” MP3-Player. I found and tweaked what is below with ...
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How can I detect audio files with skipping?

I have a relatively large music library (about 55,000 songs - primarily .m4a and .mp3), some of which was ripped from scratched CDs. How can I either fix the files, or get a list of ones with issues? ...
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ffmpeg `-movflags use_metadata_tags` won't copy album cover metadata

I want to edit a mp3 file using ffmpeg while keeping the metadata. I've searched how to keep the metadata and found this link. It is said to use -movflags use_metadata_tags. ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -...
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VLC media player, how can I display subtitles for an mp3 file?

I have LaiShiXiong-zm015.mp3 and LaiShiXiong-zm015.srt. The latter is the real subtitle for that mp3 audio. When playing the mp3 audio with VLC 3.0.4, VLC shows that it has recognized my subtitle as &...
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combine N_m3u8DL-RE & SubtitleEdit mkvmerge using CMD

How do I combine N_m3u8DL-RE with SubtitleEdit using CMD I want to Download a video file with N_m3u8DL-RE, but before merging, I want to use the SubtitleEdit /convert video.nl.srt srt /...
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What is a good way to embed an mp3 file to a pdf file?

I use Acrobat https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/rich-media.html But I have a problem with Once one plays mp3, the object became black and cannot replay Tools > Rich Media > Select Object ...
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Keeping metadata and album art

I'm trying to convert aac 320kbps to mp3 320kbps but keeping album art and meta data bc I just want to convert the file extension. Is there a way to keep meta data and album art while converting?
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VLC on Chromebook doesn't recognises any media files

In order to try and fix a wee issue my partner was having with VLC on Chromebook, I uninstalled and reinstalled it (after the usual clearing the cache etc. to try and fix it) but now it doesn't ...
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How to convert MP3 file MPEG-2 Layer 3 version to MPEG-1 Layer 3 version?

I have searched for this all over but couldn't find an answer other than people saying "there is virtually no difference between MPEG version 1 and 2". But the thing is, some old players do ...
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Is it possible to convert one channel of a stereo MP3 file losslessly to a mono MP3 file?

I recorded a mono microphone with an MP3 recorder which can only record stereo formats. Now I want to reduce the file size by removing the silent channel. Is there a lossless way to do this? This ...
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How does one add cover art to an ID3 tag in the format of a file link?

According to this answer, it's possible according to the ID3 spec (Wayback required to view the link in that question) to add cover art (for an MP3 file, I assume) as a link to an image file, as ...
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What does number mean next to artist name in on-line music databases?

I am using MusicBrainz, Discogs and freedb through Mp3tag application for Windows for clearing up my .mp3 files library using these on-line databases as tags sources. Sometimes (approx. 3-5% of all ...
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Copy all metadata (Chapters and...) from one wav file to another

How can I copy all the metadata (containing all chapters info) from one wav file to another? I tried so many different methods, but so far none of them worked. for example this wont work ffmpeg -i in0....
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Extracting Audio Snippets from mp3 file - unexpected results

I am trying to extract audio snippets using command line tools. I get consistent, unexpected results and I believe this is due to how the audio files were created/encoded. Note: I realise there are ...
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FFMPEG Use image demuxer on audio file with embedded cover image

I have an mp3 file with embedded cover art. I would like to generate a video of the image with the audio playing, for the duration of the audio. I can achieve this with the image in a separate file ...
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Why do ripped music files start with a number? Is there a way to remove in bulk or prevent these from occuring in future CD rips?

I just ripped 90 CDs to my PC, and each of the music file titles begin with a number like so: Why are these numbers present? Is there a way to remove these in bulk? Is there a way to prevent these ...
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Why does stripping metadata decrease the duration of my MP3 file by 0.03 seconds?

I have a file, input.mp3, which, running ffprobe on it gives the following: [mp3 @ 0x559431400a00] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate Input #0, mp3, from '../backup/1.mp3': ...
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How to copy files from sub directories to one directory

Hi I have a folder full of music files on an ubuntu server. I am trying to copy all said music files *.mp3/flac to one directory without there subfolders. I used this command in rsync, which works to ...
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Lossy to lossless conversion (audio)

I have an mp3 file which i want to convert to a flac. I realise that it wont "improve" the quality rather I want it in a flac format so that when I edit it each time and re encode it, it won'...
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id3 tags and the APIC tag in particular

Please forgive my misuse of nomenclature since I'm still finding my way around. I don't know if I have "mp3 tags" or "id3 tags", and if I have "id3 tags" what the "v&...
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Mass resize album art files attached to mp3 files

I have around 1,000 mp3 files all sorted into different folders. All of them have JPEG album art files embedded that are 640x640. I need to resize all of them to be 500x500. Anyone have any ...
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FFMPEG throws error while converting WEBM/MP4 audio files from MediaRecorder to MP3

I use MediaRecorder to record the audio from the browser and then upload it to my server (ARM-based Linux machine - AWS Lambda Function, if it matters). Based on the browser type, I get either an MP4 ...
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Is AV scanning zip files with non-exe contains re-assuring/reliable?

I was wondering how safe is scanning a .zip file and depending on the AV report on what to do with it. So specifically: If I have a .zip file and I run a scan using a good antivirus and does not ...
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Copy tags from mp3 to flac using kid3 and Dupeguru

I have a folder of mp3 files, and also one of flac files. I want the mp3 files to be replaced with the flac files, with the original tags of the mp3 files. Using dupeguru, I can pinpoint which flac ...
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After an MP3 file has downloaded is it possible to see where it was downloaded from?

Is it possible to see where a MP3 file was downloaded from? Like if the file was downloaded from Google, Safari or other sites?
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Is it possible to recover past metadata history for an MP3 File?

Currently trying to figure out and see if it's possible to pull up all previous metadata information on an MP3 to see where it was like downloaded from & what did the file look like before editing ...
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ffmpeg: missing streams when piping to file from stdout

I'm trying to use ffmpeg to take an input mp3 audio file (which contains an audio source and video source) from stdin, make modifications, and then send the mp3 to stdout. However, upon inspection of ...
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