Is there a way I can directly save to MP3 format in one step, as with Audiograbber, instead of having to export from Wave?
Trebor
June 29, 2023, 12:11am
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Audacity will not do that, but other free software can, e.g.
mp3DirectCut is a lossless editor for MP3 (and to a degree, MP2 and AAC) audio files, able to provide cuts and crops, copy and paste, gain and fades to audio files without having to decode or re-encode the audio. By modifying the global gain field of each frame of MPEG audio, the volume of that frame can be modified without altering the audio data itself. This allows for rapid, lossless MP3 audio editing that does not degrade the data from re-encoding.
mp3DirectCut provides audio normalization an...
The only advantage in encoding to mp3 on-the-fly would be to save memory.
Thank you, Trebor. Yeah, I have been using Audiograbber. Direct encoding does make a difference, albeit small, in the time it takes to complete large libraries, in addition to the memory you have mentioned. Oh, that’s too bad Audacity doesn’t have that option.