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wav question
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| adder |
| what is the best way to convert a high bitrate wav file (such as one rendered from ableton) to a medium bitrate mp3 without losing the audio quality? - all the free online convertors completely destroy the sound. :conf: |
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| david.michael |
| It's impossible to encode to mp3 without losing SOME quality. Mp3 is a lossy compression method. The further down you compress, the more audio information you're losing, period. |
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| adder |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
It's impossible to encode to mp3 without losing SOME quality. Mp3 is a lossy compression method. The further down you compress, the more audio information you're losing, period. |
true. what I've been using though have been rendering it unlistenable, I'm looking for something that'll lose some quality, but not to the point where you can't hear whats going on. |
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| OMNIFEX |
Doesn't Ableton offer a convertor to MP3?
I've always had good luck with Fraunhofer but, I've never seen a standalone program.
Are you encoding in 320 kbps CBR? |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by adder
true. what I've been using though have been rendering it unlistenable, I'm looking for something that'll lose some quality, but not to the point where you can't hear whats going on. |
Ah.
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0...ncoder&tag=srch |
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| david.michael |
You could also acquire Audacity for free, and add the mp3 encoding capability for free. |
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| adder |
| quote: | Originally posted by OMNIFEX
Doesn't Ableton offer a convertor to MP3?
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does it!? if it does I should be shot :toothless
I'll give that a whirl, thanks for your help :) |
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| DJ PSYCHOTRANCE |
| Do a google search for audiograbber, it rips cd's and also encodes with lame encoder which imo is the best encoder out there and it's all free. |
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| i got big pants |
theres the lame encoder...dl'd it last night and it works pretty good. actually recorded a track on vinyl into a wav through audacity and encoded it into a 320 with the lame encoder and it sounds 99% the same
http://winlame.sourceforge.net/download.php |
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| Ryan0751 |
I don't think it does... unless there's a way to add it. A quick google search says no.
If you have iTunes, it can also convert wav to MP3 (just change the settings for "import" to MP3, 320Kbps or something). Right click the file, convert to mp3.
| quote: | Originally posted by adder
does it!? if it does I should be shot :toothless
I'll give that a whirl, thanks for your help :) |
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| AnomalyConcept |
CDEX has an option to re-encode a file, but it's not really intuitive to find.
The program was designed as a CD ripper, but also includes wav->mp3 and mp3->mp3 re-encoding. |
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