Tim: >> However, I find most people encode MP3s to a much lower bitrate, >> where I can hear burbles, squeaks and squealies, and the quieter >> nuances of some music disappears completely. Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > If you look at the files you seem to have encoded with the oneliner > from my prev. message (with "mediainfo" for example) you should see > that the mp3's have variable bit rate. That's, IINM, and hopefully, > one way to keep silent parts of a song existent and silent, and the > louder ones just as loud as they are. I don't expect variable compression to affect audio dynamics, but it will allow for smaller files when there's less complex audio to compress. Low bitrates just try to throw away too much data, and the less bits you have to play with, it's going to end up including some noticeable audio that gets thrown away. >> One thing I notice with MP3 encoding that I can give it a wave with >> specific lead-in and lead-out time, and the encoded file is missing >> that (screwing up audio comprised of multiple files). Sometimes to >> the point where it's actually slightly cutting off the start of the >> audio. Whatever Audacity was doing behind the scenes tended to do >> that a lot. > I don't use Audacity for reencoding of existing files. Me, neither, most of the time. Most of the audio that I'm dealing with is stuff that I've recorded myself. So I've created a project in Audacity, and saved it out as WAV files for all-purpose future work, and saved compressed audio to pass on to other people. MP3s being the worst, but easiest handled by most people. Flac can be a pain, it's support isn't as wide, and you may need to pick a different container file to hold the flac data, depending on the player. But if I wanted non-lossy compressed audio for my own purposes, it's a good choice. I rarely ever re-encode/re-compress files, because it's such a chore and brings its own sets of problem (as has already been discussed). I tend to make several versions from the get-go. I'll have a look at your notes, but my comment about continuous track playback is about audio that traverses across tracks, and needs to do so uninterrupted. No clicks, no fades, no interruptions to the beat of a song, a silent join. MP3 is not very good at that, and neither are many players. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 19 13:27:06 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. This email brought to you by potato omelates... Mmm, yummy! _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
