quoth the Hemmann, Volker Armin: > On Friday 01 September 2006 17:47, sdoma wrote: > > even if there are tools - don't do it. > > The artist/title info is in the id4 tags - you can edit them with lots of > tools, even inside most players. No need to recode them.
This is true, no need to re-encode just to fix tags. > And recoding: mp3 is a lossy format. If you turn them into wavs you have > not only wavs based on reduced information, you remove the stuff that makes > mp3 sound 'better' than they are. If you encode them again, you are > removing more information. > > So after such a circle the sound quality would be worse. A lot worse. > Hardly bearable worse. I am well aware of encoding/re-encoding between lossy formats but I still don't buy this. I habitually re-encode all formats to my preferred Ogg Vorbis format and have not once been overly (or even slightly) disappointed with the results. Unless one is the hardest-core of audiophiles with tens of thousands of dollars worth of stereo equipment I doubt they will either. "Hardly bearable"? Maybe if you have the ears of a dog. If you start with a decent bitrate in the first place (128+) I don't see a difference with naked ears at all. > Just say no to recoding. Nice blanket statement. Better advice to the OP: try it. Save the originals. Listen to both. Can you live with it? Make up your own mind.... Shameless plug: I have written a ruby script to re-encode between various formats: http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/ It will allow you to encode mp3 -> mp3 among others. (Ogg, M4a, Wma, Flac). Undoubtably this is Hemmann's worst nightmare... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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