MP3 to WAV Conversion question

[Musicman]

Is there any way or program to decompress MP3  to WAV keeping in WAV file the ID TAGS?
 

Thanks in advance.

What I'm really trying to convert is my MP3 CBR to MP3 VBR but it seems that none of the programs works
properly doing this.

[Space Fractal]

I do not recommend to convert cbr to vbr, because you just un crompress and then compress the file AGAIN. Like JPG, you might get a worse quality on your files.

Indstead you should re-rip your files if you can.

No, WAV can not hold any tags at all. Instead you should try FLAC instead which can hold tags and is a LOSELESS compression, unlike MP3.

[richms]

foobar2000 will convert mp3 to mp3 and retag the new file with info from the source file.

If you are recoding from a high rate to a low one for a portable player this will be fine, but if you are dropping it from something bad like 160 to a vbr around 130 wanting to make your library smaller then you will not save a lot and will have crap sound

[Musicman]

Thanks for the advices Space & Richms.

I already tested foobar2000 and at least the few files that used work
fine for what I need (not losing current quality, keeping ID Tags and
get reasonable file size). Thanks Richms.

 

Great Forum.

[Space Fractal]

Since Mp3 is a lossy format, you want get the losted music data back again, so you would just recompress it twice and then hence the worser quality.

Normally this is not a problem for mobile device or something like that. But dont do that for HIFI speackers or like that.