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michaelowen
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 Posted - Thu May 08, 2003 4:48 pm
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I have some .mp3's of live shows that I have downloaded with each .mp3 being a song. I would like to combine them into one large .mp3. Tried loading into Cool Edit which then converts to .wav and using the Add/Append for each after that. However, when I go to save I lose some more of the quality(some was already lost by .mp3 conversion) by going from .wav to .mp3.
Any suggestions on a better way to accomplish this?
Big time thanks in advance.
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ozpeter
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Posted - Thu May 08, 2003 5:05 pm
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You have indeed hit the inevitable problem, unless you use an mp3 specific tool for the job. I've seen mention here of something that might do it- search the forum for 'mp3 split' or 'mp3 silence' and you might find it (those being phrases which would have been in the thread I have in mind). OR wait a few minutes for a more directly helpful reply!
- Ozpeter
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Craig Jackman
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Posted - Fri May 09, 2003 6:39 am
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Once it's an MP3, you can't do anything else to it without screwing it up even more. You can convert everything to WAV and edit to your hearts content while keeping the original MP3 quality level. There is no way within CEP to do anything to MP3's.
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VoodooRadio
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Posted - Fri May 09, 2003 3:45 pm
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| Once it's an MP3, you can't do anything else to it without screwing it up even more. |
Aaahhh... sweet music to my ears!! 
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William Rose
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Posted - Sun May 11, 2003 4:53 am
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Hey Michael Owen,
The only reason to do what you're suggesting, that I can think of, is to enable the opening of these .mp3's as a single waveform, in an editor. Even commercial live CD releases have audible gaps.
I mean, if you want to play them all in sequence, you could burn a 1 track CD, in wich case, you wouldn't have to re-convert to mp3, or, you could add them to a playlist if you wanted to play them straight from your PC.
And, if it's just a matter of organization, an appropriately named sub-folder would be the next best thing.
It's just that I've had the same compulsion from time to time, but, after merging, invariably, I wind up wishing I'd have left the files separate.
I just caught on to the fact that your goal here seems to be absolute continuity, in wich case the only valid suggestion I've made is the single-track CD. I still think you're gonna wind up regretting putting them together. Extremely inconvenient.
That's my two-cents worth.
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res1223
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Posted - Sun May 11, 2003 12:10 pm
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Two programs that will join/split .mp3s:
musiCutter
http://musicutter.host.sk/
mp3DirectCut
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/#mp3dc
Note that because of the gapless playback issues inherent in the .mp3 format, you may get glitches/clicks at the join points.
If glitches/clicks are a problem, you could always decode the files to .wav, run them through a program like WavTrim (http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/wavtrim.htm) or edit them manually to trim the glitch causing bits. Then join the .wavs and recompress them with a lossless encoder like Monkey's Audio (.ape) or FLAC (.flac), so you won't lose any more quality (as you would if you recompressed to .mp3). Of course, this method limits the options of where the file can be played back. Monkey's would be the easier choice since there is a Cool Edit filter and Winamp 2.xx plugin included in the Monkey's install package. Also note, that an .ape or .flac will only be about 1/2 the size of a .wav.
Rob
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