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Title: Repairing MP3's
Post by: bthall on June 02, 2003, 12:34:42 pm

I have a few MP3's which have severe "hiccups" part way through them.

What would the scholars here recommend in the way of software to try to repair them?

Thanks in advance,
BarryT

Title: Re: Repairing MP3's
Post by: KingSparta on June 02, 2003, 01:08:57 pm

>> What would the scholars here recommend
>> in the way of software to try to repair them?
can't be done

Re-Rip them if you have the CD

Title: Re: Repairing MP3's
Post by: bthall on June 02, 2003, 02:21:13 pm

Anything that will get rid of the loud click/pop, as I don't have the original CD any more (very old CD)?

Thanks again,

BarryT

Title: Re: Repairing MP3's
Post by: KingSparta on June 02, 2003, 02:28:23 pm

Anything that will get rid of the loud click/pop

yes maybe Audio Cleaning Lab by Magix works really good.

Title: Re: Repairing MP3's
Post by: modelmaker on June 02, 2003, 02:43:32 pm

Magix Audio Cleaning Lab (aclab) is definitely a good way to go. I have tried several of these types of apps and this one is the most user-friendly and has a lot of capabilities: pop & click removal,EQ, expand/compress de-noiser & de-hisser and can be expanded with pluggins.

You will have to convert the mp3 file to wav and then back. Magix uses  Fraunhofer mp3, I recomend exporting the modified WAV file out of aclab, then using MC9's file converter to convert back to mp3(use VBR for less loss) or ape etc.

Title: Re: Repairing MP3's
Post by: rocketsauce on June 02, 2003, 03:43:55 pm

Just be aware that converting an mp3 to wav and then doing pop/click and noise/hiss removal and then converting it back to mp3 will degrade the sound quality. If you do convert the files to wav to fix them it would be best to recompress using a lossless encoder (like Monkey's Audio) to preserve whatever sound quality is still there.

Rob

Title: Re: Repairing MP3's
Post by: KingSparta on June 02, 2003, 03:45:38 pm

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Just be aware that converting an mp3 to wav and then doing pop/click and noise/hiss removal and then converting it back to mp3 will degrade the sound quality.

since it is already screwed up no loss

Title: Re: Repairing MP3's
Post by: rocketsauce on June 02, 2003, 04:08:23 pm

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since it is already screwed up no loss

True :), but even though the clicks and pops are fixed now, the sound quality might be bad enough that you still won't want to listen to it...and you've just spent all that time decoding, denoising, re-encoding.

Rob

Title: Re: Repairing MP3's
Post by: KingSparta on June 02, 2003, 04:23:03 pm

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the sound quality might be bad enough that you still won't want to listen to it...

not when your drunk