Simple program for editing MP3s

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I used to have a really useful prog which allowed me to 'see' the music in MP3s and cut out for example extraneous bits of silence or whatever. Does this make sense? Anyone know of a free program that lets me do this?

― rwillmsen (rwillmsen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Audacity. Do a google search.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 10 March 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

audacity, and all the others, decode the mp3 into an internal format for editing and then re-encodes it when you save. which is bad as it means you've lost twice the information you usually lose.

there is something on linux called mp3cut (or maybe cutmp3) which lets you choose a range of the individual mp3 frames (around 40 so a second) and will save just those without needing an reencoding but the interface is non-graphical and it's a pain. last time i used it was to cut up an 8 hour mp3 of things recorded from the radio (which, you can imagine, would've taken ages to unencode and resulted in a HUGE file (as it was 8 hours of mono mp3 was about 250M))

mp3surgeon (http://www.mp3surgeon.com/download.php)(windows only?) has a trial version available which appears to let you edit things graphically but sames them without re-encoding. not used it myself.

http://www.audio2x.com/ezmp3/index.htm appears to be the same (shareware)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 10 March 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Nero has a built in editor for when you're burning to CDs but it's not very good (will do 'extraneous silence' cutting and fading good enough tho)

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 10 March 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

download CoolEdit and related cracks

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Mp3Direct Edit: http://www.mpesch3.de/ (windows)

Free and doesn't do the resampling mentioned above. (you'll also need the mpglib.dll it mentions, there is a link on the homepage). i've just tested this out (i've been looking for something similar myself) and it's great.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

cool edit does the decode/re-encode thing as well. undesirable.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

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