Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/ogg editing

["Liviu Andronic" <landronimirc@gmail.com>]

There is media-sound/mp3splt-gtk [1], but it's for splitting only: "a
GTK+ based utility to split mp3 and ogg files without decoding." Never
managed to get it working, though.

I would suggest that you raise the question on a more specialised ML,
for example the Audacity ML. Perhaps they'd suggest an alternative, or
even be willing to implement this..

Liviu

[1] http://gentoo-portage.com/media-sound/mp3splt-gtk


On 11/29/08, meino.cramer@gmx.de <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
>  no problem...I am also no native english speaker...so, well,
>  may be it is my english not yours what screws up things a little... :)
>
>  MP3/OGG are audio codecs, which are lossy. Means: If you encode a
>  wav-file to mp3, than decode this one again back to wav there is
>  some sound loss.
>
>  Audacity is -- as far as I understood -- only able to edit wav files.
>  Therefore it has to decode the mp3 to wav before editing.
>  If one wants a mp3 again from this wav file, the above has to be
>  aplied and you will loose sound quality.
>
>  There are ways to edit/cut/append mp3 files directly whitout
>  deocding them (dont ask me for details here) therefore these
>  editors, which are specialized in mp3/ogg editing, are able
>  to edit/cut/apped mp3 files as often as you wish without loosing
>  sound quality.
>
>  Audacity is one to edit wav files directly but not mp3/ogg files --
>  as far as I know....
>
>  HTH
>
>  Keep hacking! :)
>  mcc
>


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