Thursday, 02 May 2019
Is there software for editing MP3 files?
Editing MP3 files is tricky since MP3 is frame based, and frames may also have interdependencies. There are programs that will perform some basic slicing of MP3 files. Here are a couple:
MP3Cutter: http://members.tripod.com/~videoripper/mp3cutter/index.htm
MP3Trim: http://www.jps.net/kyunghi/mp3encod.htm
MannsMp3Edit: http://saturn.spaceports.com/~manns/
Or if these links don’t work well, try searching the big download libraries (www.hotfiles.com www.winfiles.com etc.)
If you want to do more than simple snips, you will need to decode to WAV and use a WAV editor. Goldwave available from www.goldwave.com is an excellent shareware editor.
Xing have an MP3 editor, which they bundle with AudioCatalyst now. And several people have mentioned one from a company called Maya (I believe), but I don’t have a URL for that. The Maya editor seemed to be able to do so many things that it sounded as if it was actually decoding the MP3 files, editing wave format, then re-encoding. Various programs will let you do that, such as Cool Edit 2000. But bear in mind that repeatedly decoding and re-encoding an MP3 is going to lead to progressive loss of quality.
