On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:36:02 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anarky wrote:
is there like a audio conversion tool that can handle all different stuff like this (like saving as an mp3 with a different bitrate/stereo/mono, converting to wave, or compressing back)? Is there like an unified toool like this with some gui?Yes.
http://rezound.sourceforge.net/
Wouldn't this be accumulating losses exponentially? Like 5% loss in original mp3. Convert to wav then 5% loss from wav to ogg = total loss of 25%. Of course i may be blowing smoke.
I don't believe it would accumulate like that. I think that if you recompress an .mp3 to another lossy file format you *may* have a cumulative loss of quality relative to the original uncompressed .wav file. I think it depends on the compression format that is being used on both files.
If you save an .mp3 as a wav file it will have the same quality as the .mp3 but with a much larger file size. It will not increase the quality of the file. It can't get any better than the file from which it is created (the mp3). It will sound exactly the same and will take up 5, 6, 7 or more times the space on your hard drive depending on the bit rate of the original file. To get the best quality you need to create compressed files directly from the original wav.
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