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Main => Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum => Topic started by: Musicman on March 06, 2008, 12:24:33 pm
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Is there any way or program to decompress MP3 to WAV keeping in WAV file the ID TAGS????
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Great Forum.
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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.