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Title: Re-encoding
Post by: Topper on October 28, 2003, 08:42:45 am

This is probably a dumb question but here goes.
If I have a track that is 1 hour long at 128kbps mp3 and i want to split the track into smaller segments, if I convert it to wav split and then re-encode the sections at 240kbps would I still get the degradation in sound quality as if I had re-encoded at 128kbps.
I know that i can't improve the quality of a file but is it possible to maintain the quality when re-encoding.

Title: Re:Re-encoding
Post by: JimH on October 28, 2003, 08:47:39 am

Quote from: Topper on October 28, 2003, 08:42:45 am

This is probably a dumb question but here goes.
If I have a track that is 1 hour long at 128kbps mp3 and i want to split the track into smaller segments, if I convert it to wav split and then re-encode the sections at 240kbps would I still get the degradation in sound quality as if I had re-encoded at 128kbps.
I know that i can't improve the quality of a file but is it possible to maintain the quality when re-encoding.

You will still lose quality, but it may not be noticeable.  The best thing would be to try it.  

Title: Re:Re-encoding
Post by: Uwe on October 28, 2003, 08:56:36 am

The best way is not to convert into wave. There are tools to split the files directly in mp3 like mp3cut for example.

Uwe

Title: Re:Re-encoding
Post by: rocketsauce on October 28, 2003, 03:02:39 pm

mp3directcut:

http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/#mp3dc

musicutter:

http://musicutter.host.sk/