Questions tagged [mp3]
MP3 is the common name for the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3(III) or MPEG-2. It is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression.
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How to add a mp3 handler to sox?
I want to play music in the terminal with sox.
# install sox/lame
sudo apt-get install sox
sudo apt-get install lame
# play music
play music.mp3
# play FAIL formats: no handler for file extension `...
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FFMPEG: Convert m4a to mp3 without significant loss
I have a load of audio files (about 1000) which I want to convert from m4a to mp3 so I can use play them on a CD player which has a USB port.
I tried doing something simple like: ffmpeg -i FILE.m4a ...
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Convert an MP3 from 48000 to 44100 Hz?
I have some MP3s that are in 48000 Hz sampling frequency.
I'd like to burn them to CD, so I have to reduce the sampling frequency into 441000.
How to do that using ffmpeg?
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Convert mp3 to wav using FFmpeg for VBR
What command should I use to convert a mp3 file to wav whose bitrate is variable. Or better how would I know whether that source audio is fixed bitrate or variable?
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Auto-tagging MP3s
I have a ton of MP3s, but their ID tags are not filled in. Going in manually to populate them is simply too much work.
I was wondering if there is a way to populate them automatically. Perhaps by ...
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Can I losslessly increase the volume of an MP3 file?
I want to increase the volume of some MP3 files that I have. Is there a way to do this in a lossless way (without re-compressing the MP3 file and hence decreasing its quality)?
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How do I split an MP3 file without re-encoding it?
I have a 400 MB MP3 file at 96 kbps, taken from a CD.
I want to split this into many files.
Is there any way to do that without affecting the quality of audio,
or maybe without re-encoding the file?...
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Is there a tool that can detect (and if possible, fix) glitches in MP3 files? [closed]
My collection contains some MP3s which have some glitches like:
displaying the wrong duration on loading
minor jumps
suddenly ending despite the duration claims another minute remaining
noise
I'm ...
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Extracting audio from MP4 video into MP3
I downloaded a few MP4-encoded videos from which I'd like to extract the audio stream into MP3 files for easy listening on my digital player.
Most likely, VLC can do this, but the instructions ...
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Get MP3 Length in Linux / FreeBSD
I have a bunch of mp3 files with various length. I want to cut it down to 50%-60% length. Says, from 1 minute down to 30 seconds. It should be trivial using ffmpeg. But, I don't know how to determine ...
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Is there an easy way to split mp3 files?
I recently learned a neat trick. To join mp3 files together, you simply use the command (in Windows)
copy /b *.mp3 joined.mp3
and voila, you have one large mp3 file.
My question: is there a method ...
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FFmpeg command to convert MP3 to AAC
I can issue this command:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -acodec alac -ab 128k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -y output.m4a
to create a m4a file.
But when I issue this command
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -acodec alac -ab 128k -...
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Any beat detection software for Linux? [closed]
Amarok 2 can search through music collection using ID3v2 tag's 'bpm' field. That would be very nice to retag the entire music collection so I can find the 'mood' of the track I like.
However I've not ...
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Convert mp3 to ogg vorbis
Is there a command-line utility to convert mp3s to ogg vorbis that I can install with apt-get?
Alternatively, is there an extension for nginx so I can point it to a directory with mp3 files and have ...
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Why are my MP3 files the same size, even when I change the bitrate with ffmpeg?
I converted an audio stream into 3 different settings using essentially the same format. They ended up being exactly the same size. Why is this?
ffmpeg -i "Likoonl-Q1-All.mp4" -c:v copy -c:a ...
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Creating video with audio and still image for YouTube
I'm running the following command:
ffmpeg -i audio.mp3 -ar 44100 -f image2 -i logo.jpg -r 15 -b 1800 -s 640x480 foo.mov
Which successfully outputs a video with my recorded audio and an image on it.
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How to convert 3gp audio file to mp3?
I have a 3gp audio file recorded with my Android cellphone.
I would like to convert it to mp3, preferably on Linux, but Windows also an option.
Any recommendations?
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Linux command line utility to determine mp3 bitrate?
Is there a command-line utility to determine the bitrate of an mp3 file?
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Command line tool to identify audio file specs
I'm looking for an audio file equivalent to ImageMagick's identify command.
For example, with identify, I can get brief information about a bunch of images:
% identify b*
banner1.jpg JPEG 134x614 ...
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How to trim silence only from beginning and end of mp3 files using FFMpeg?
After investigating to find a solution to the problem, I ended up empty-handed.
I want a context menu option in Windows 10 so that whenever I right click on a MP3 file I have this option to trim ...
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Can't edit MP3 tags like artist or title
I try to edit the tags of MP3 files and I found that some of the file cannot be edited.
Here's the procedure when I edit the information of the MP3 file:
Right click the MP3 file in Windows Explorer ...
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Batch convert .wav to mp3 and ogg?
I have a few hundred .wav files that I need to convert to both ogg and mp3 format. Is there a way that I can do this in batch either from Audacity or from some other command line tool?
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What is a good way to batch re-encode mp3 files from a higher bitrate to a lower bitrate in Windows?
I have a few thousand MP3 files and they are all of mixed bitrate.
I would like to run a program that can batch encode them all to 128 kbps. Are there any decent and free solutions for this for ...
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Program to convert flac to mp3? [closed]
I'm looking for a program to convert flac files to mp3, while preserving the embedded metadata (including album art).
I'm pretty sure this is possible with ffmpeg, but I don't know the command . . .
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Why does stripping metadata decrease the duration of my MP3 file by 0.03 seconds?
I have a file, input.mp3, which, running ffprobe on it gives the following:
[mp3 @ 0x559431400a00] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, mp3, from '../backup/1.mp3':
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Best program to trim silence beginning and end of mp3 files? [closed]
I have a bunch of mp3 files that have silence at the beginnings and ends, is there any program to trim this automatically? I would prefer that I can just give it a list of files to trim as opposed to ...
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How do I add MP3, MP4 and H.264 support to Chromium on Windows?
Google Chrome on Windows comes with support for the above media formats, however, Chromium does not.
I want to add support for my own personal use, how can I do this?
I know that on Ubuntu this is ...
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Automatically sort music files into folders by album/artist names
I have a large collection of music files (let's say MP3), with metadata (ID3 tags), but all are located in the same folder. I wish to automatically organize all of them according to this metadata.
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What is the quickest, easiest way to compress an MP3 file?
I would like to compress an MP3 file, and I see a lot of references when searching Google, but it seems like by now someone must have found something easy and that is guaranteed to work.
Compressing ...
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How to convert MP3 to YouTube-allowed video format?
I have many MP3 files on my website and I have decided to upload them to Youtube, but unfortunately for me, YouTube does not allow me to do that. It requires video format only.
How can I convert ...
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How to record a mp3/m3u stream using VLC?
How do I capture/record directly from a MP3/M3U stream of a radio station, using VLC player, setting up VLC via its graphical user interface (GUI)?
I prefer the Windows version of VLC but ...
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MP3 vs M4A (AAC): what is the audio codec for portable devices which gives maximum independence? [closed]
A couple of years back MP3 was the most supported format for portable devices. Then Apple came along and wiped the floor of all the portable devices with the iPod as well as the iPhone. They clearly ...
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How to install libmp3lame for ffmpeg
I already have ffMpeg running on my test server. I would want to convert all possible audio files to mp3.
I get the error 'codec not found'.
here's what i typed:
/var/www/i/uploads$ sudo /usr/...
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How to objectively compare the sound quality of two files?
I have used the avconv utility to convert an MP4 file downloaded from Youtube to an MP3:
$ avconv -i RembrandtPussyhorse.mp4 RembrandtPussyhorse.mp3
avconv version 0.8.9-6:0.8.9-0ubuntu0.12.10.1, ...
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Add silence to the end of an MP3
Do any of you know of a way of adding silence of a fixed duration to the end of an MP3, in Linux? For example using MEncoder, FFmpeg, etc?
It needs to be command line as it will be scripted and ...
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Windows: What software do you recommend for editing MP3 ID3 tags? [closed]
What software do you recommend for editing MP3 ID3 tags?
(The OS is Windows XP.)
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Repair encoding of ID3 tags
I have inherited about 2000 MP3 files. For the majority of them, their ID3 tags display garbled in Amarok. I need a software that upgrades the ID3 tags to v2.4 type $03 (i.e. UTF-8 encoding), removes ...
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"Losslessly" trim an MP3 file [duplicate]
I have got an mp3 file, let's say it is 25 minutes long. I understand that any software is capable of extracting the first 20 minutes of the file as a new MP3 file. However, I would like to find a ...
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Speech recognition - MP3 to text software [closed]
I'm looking for a speaker independent program (commercial or free) that would enable me to transcribe MP3 files containing speech recordings (especially podcasts) to text. I wanted to try Dragon ...
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Add .mp3 to the end of file names
I moved all my songs off my phone to a flash drive. Then I uploaded them to my new phone, only when they were stored to the flash drive they come over missing the ".mp3" so they are seen as "file". If ...
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How to convert .ogg to .mp3?
Ubuntu ripped a CD for me into audio files but they are all .ogg format which I can't play on my MP3 player.
How can I convert .ogg files to .mp3 files?
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How to play MP3 files into the microphone input
In a chat session, whenever I want the other person to hear a pre-recorded voice, I need to play it on my speakers and use my microphone to capture it. How can I play MP3 files into the microphone ...
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How to convert M4B files to MP3?
I have downloaded some .m4b files, but my mp3 player cannot play them. I have tried several converters i found through google, but they can't seem to be able to convert the whole files. (Its an 8 hour ...
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Merge MP3-files into audiobook with chapters?
I want to take a folder full of mp3's, and merge it into an audiobook-file (for Ipod, don't remember the file format) with chapters for each file.
Is there a tool that will do this?
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Why is a FLAC encoded from a decoded MP3 bigger than the MP3?
To be more precise than in the title, suppose I have a MP3 file that is 320 kbps. If I decompress it, then logically, all the data except for roughly 320 kilobits out of each second of audio should be ...
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How can I convert FLAC to other formats in OS X?
I have a few FLAC files that I'd like to play with iTunes. I would like to retain the metadata if possible.
How can I convert the files to a format supported by iTunes?
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ffmpeg command for concatenate two mp3 files
I am using ffmpeg for Concatenating two MP3 files together,
I use this command :
ffmpeg -y -i first.mp3 -i second.mp3 -filter_complex "[0:0][1:0] amix=inputs=2:duration=longest" -c:a libmp3lame ...
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Join many MP3, OGG, and FLAC files into one WAV or FLAC
I have 33 audio files, each about 11 seconds long, and I'd like to merge them into one lossless file. How can I do this efficiently (i.e. without cut-pasting in Audacity 33 times)?
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Will editing an MP3 harm the quality?
I recently recorded something in MP3 — I should have done FLAC, but it’s way too late — and I wanted to edit those soundtracks from 5 minutes to about 2 minutes each. I edit in Audacity. Will loading ...
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How to convert series of MP3 to a M4B in a batch
I have a batch of MP3 based books. Some of them divide into files according to book's own structure: chapters and so on. Some of them was just divided into equally lengthened parts.
So. I've bought ...
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