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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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Windows Media Player will not play files compressed with winLame using LAME encoding

We have a client who cannot listen to audio files we are compressing with winLame using the LAME mp3 encoding. Anyone have any idea what is happening here?
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Auto Music Tagging Software [closed]

Is there any software out there that will completely and automatically clean and organize a music library? I have tried MediaMonkey, Songbird, Foobar, iTunes, TuneUp and various other programs I have ...
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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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Using iTunes, can I write all of the metadata into ID3 tags?

I'm not sure, but this may be part of the organization of my library. Currently, all of my music is properly sorted and indexed with accurate data. I want to make sure that this is written to the ID3 ...
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How to convert M4B files to MP3?

I have downloaded some .m4b files, but my mp3 player cannot play them. I have tried several converters i found through google, but they can't seem to be able to convert the whole files. (Its an 8 hour ...
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How to download and save mp3s

I'd like to save this mp3: http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/lesson1.mp3 Is there any way to do this instead of it playing in the browser?
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How to rip Audio-CD to mp3 in Linux console?

I' looking for tool that convert Audio-CD to mp3 in Linux console - ONE good tool. Using cdparanoia + lame is ok, but... is something else ?
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MP3 + JPG into SWF?

I'd like to compile an MP3 file and a JPG file into a single Flash SWF file that I can just upload and people don't need an MP3 plug-in to listen to it through a web browser. Does someone know of a ...
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Automatically sort music files into folders by album/artist names

I have a large collection of music files (let's say MP3), with metadata (ID3 tags), but all are located in the same folder. I wish to automatically organize all of them according to this metadata.
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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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software to automatically record telephone calls (landline) [closed]

I'm looking for some software which will record all calls made or received on my landline telephone. Any suggestions? I want to keep a record of all calls saved on my computer as MP3 or some other ...
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What is a good .mp3/.m4v tag editor for OS X [closed]

What is a good .mp3/.m4v tag editor for OS X that's not iTunes? I'd prefer free but I'm open to anything. I've looked at ID3 Editor but that only does .mp3 (from what I could see). I want to set ...
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A flash MP3 player that will take a URL and can auto play

I am looking for a flash MP3 player that can be accessed using a URL and that can play an MP3 file from another URL but also has the ability to autoplay. Something like http://mail.google.com/mail/...
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Software (other than iTunes) to stream music from an iTunes server [closed]

I have purchased a networked hard drive (ReadyNAS) that I have put all of my MP3s onto. This NAS has a built-in iTunes streaming server. What media applications, other than iTunes, can I use to ...
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Free duplicate music finder for Mac

I'm trying to clean up an mp3 folder which has a plethora of duplicate files in it due to accidentally dragging my music folder into iTunes and having it re-import songs which were already in the play ...
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Windows Media Player 11 shows most songs as "Unknown Artist"

I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my PC, and imported my music collection into WMP11 only to find that around 1/3 of my 3500-odd collection is identified as "Unknown Artist" "Unknown Album". ...
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Most practical way to convert 20G of music in flac format to mp3 for itunes

from my old windows computer I have around 20G of music in flac format. Now, I got a mac and I would like to add this music to itunes, so I need to convert them to mp3 format. So, what is the best ...
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Whats the best linux console tool to explore sound file information? [closed]

Im looking for console tool that will output most detailed information about sound file (particularly mp3). Tried to use different tools (id3, lame, ffmpeg) Looking to get such info: Format (Mp3/...
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MP3 Album Detection

I see how many applications like MusicMatch, detects (only introducing a music CD) wich albums it is. I think that it uses songs duration... but, anyone knows how it is done for sure??
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Playing music from a network drive

I have a collection of music that is stored on a network drive. Are there any music players that can play these songs, without modifying them, and without me having to manually add songs to some kind ...
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When I try to play an MP3 with Banshee it just shows an X

I have a fresh installation of Banshee on my machine and I'm having a hard time playing MP3's - it just puts an X icon next to the song with no description. It looked under Preferences and didn't find ...
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What is a good way to batch re-encode mp3 files from a higher bitrate to a lower bitrate in Windows?

I have a few thousand MP3 files and they are all of mixed bitrate. I would like to run a program that can batch encode them all to 128 kbps. Are there any decent and free solutions for this for ...
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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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Convert Chinese character .wav song into .mp3 or .wma on English OS

I have bunch of Chinese .wav files on my hard disk that I'm trying to convert into .mp3 with Audacity but it appear that Audacity can not read Chinese character songs but the .wav file display ...
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Filter MP3s by encoder type?

I'm on a Mac and use iTunes to manage my music collection. I'm in the process of weeding out the lower quality files that I have and would like to have only MP3s that have been encoded using the V0 ...
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Automatic adaptive gain normalization

How may I normalize a (voice) audio mp3 or aac file with no loss, having the gain rised as much as possible (mitigating distortion using a compressor), so in a long conversation people that speak ...
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Ripping sound from avi video file to mp3? (on Windows)

Ripping sound from .avi video file to .mp3? (on Windows) What software (free) can do the task ?
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Fetch MP3 ID3 tag under linux

I have a few mp3 files which are not tagged. Winamp has a nice feature which I think is called "autotag" and which is very good at finding out artist and title for files. I'd like something like this ...
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Can I right-click music folder and select play under GNOME?

On Windows it's possible to right click on a folder of MP3s and (when it works) click on play to have the default media player queue up the contents in track order. Does anyone know a way I can do ...
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unstable / variating sound level (volume) within same song / clip

I have a pretty standard Acer desktop (I guess a predecessor of the X5900 model). when playing mp3 / radio / youtube clips, the sound level is changing WITHIN the clip, highly annoying. in the case ...
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VLC - Adding to playlist

I am using Songr to find/stream songs and double click them to play in VLC which basically "plays" the URL. But as I am listening to one item and search for another and double click another item from ...
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Make VLC play all of a sound clip?

In VLC 1.0.5, sound files (mp3 and wav) are not playing completely. I think the leading .1 sec and trailing .5 second, more or less, are not playing. I remember this behavior from some years ago, but ...
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Podcast software with Cue Sheet support

I am looking for an all-in-one solution which can do at least the first 2, preferably all 3 of the following steps from my current manual process: Podcast download (currently using iTunes) Search for ...
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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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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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Set default File opening programs

Working on Vista & Windows 7, I use Winamp 5.57 for listening to MP3 and VLC player for watching movies. I made those two as my default players for corresponding media respectively. But when I ...
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Converting CDA to MP3 files on the Mac

How do I covert CDA audio files to MP3 format on the Mac? The CDA files have already been ripped and are sitting on my computer. Could I just change the filename extension from .cda to .mp3?
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Is there a media player that allows me to group together radio streams which are just mirrors of the same station?

I find it really annoying that for some radio stations, which have two or more servers to cope with the network load, there is not one single entry in amaroks playlist but two or more entries. This ...
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Check "Id3 Tag" integrity from mp3 (almost a "debug"). Is it possible?

I'm using Mp3Tag do edit Id3 tags in my mp3 files. In the editor everything looks ok, but in my iTunes, some of them just ge messed up. The artist isn't read, Album Artist doesn't show up, this kind ...
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How can I convert FLAC to other formats in OS X?

I have a few FLAC files that I'd like to play with iTunes. I would like to retain the metadata if possible. How can I convert the files to a format supported by iTunes?
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Converting mp3 to ogg, suggestions? [closed]

I'm thinking about converting my mp3 based music library to ogg, due to ogg being a free and open standard format (I guess there are other reasons too). As far as I know there's a chance of losing ...
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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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software to create timed music 3m 1m 3m

I am looking for a program that will allow me to create a sort of training CD. Something that will let me take a bunch of songs and let me limit them to 3 minutes (maybe more or maybe less) and have ...
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How to test thousands of MP3 files whether they're playable?

I just managed to recover lots of mp3 from a bad HDD. Is there a way to test all these files if they are playable? I don't want to hit next a few thousand times.
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How to convert MP3 into VOX file format in linux / unix

I want to know how do I convert an mp3 file to vox file format.
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Is it possible to check an MP3 for data corruption?

I was listening to some older mp3s today and I released that some of my songs have pops and cracks in them. I assume this means that the file has some bad blocks. Is there software/script/etc that I ...
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How to get average volume level of a mp3 file

I have to normalize volume level of some speech recording. But every recording seems to be at difference volume level. Is there any tool that can get some statistics of volume level? So I know how ...
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Default audio device gives an error on Windows 7 (x64) when trying to run VLC from CMD (VideoLAN, VLC)

I use Windows 7 (x64) (Russian). I want to stream live audio from my default audio capture device (microphone). When I set up VLM settings using visual enviroment instruments -> VLM settings it all ...
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Seeking automated toolchain for WAV cleanup and conversion to MP3 (currently using Audacity manually)

I use Finale with the Garritan sounds to convert my music into WAV files; after that I manually load each one into Audacity and select all use the "normalize" effect (with default settings) manually ...
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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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