If editing metadata only, does MP3 lose quality?

Audacity Help Forum GNU/Linux
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I haven’t tried this yet (but haven’t found the answer from searching the forum or online manual, so I’m guessing the answer is “No”).

My question is, if I edit the metadata only of an MP3 file in Audacity, will it lose quality?

Another way to ask this is: Is there a way to edit the metadata only of an MP3 file in Audacity without loss of quality?

I’m using Ubuntu 18.04.3, LTS, Bionic Beaver.

and Audacity 2.2.1

I don’t remember how I installed Audacity, but likely with apt-get.

I looked here:

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/metadata_editor.html

but didn’t see the answer.

Thank you.

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Yes it will lose quality - because when you Export as MP3 from Audacity it will re-compress the files and thus you will get additional compression damage.

There are several metadata editors round that will do this for you without changing the audio.

WC

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Most Linux distros have “EasyTAG” available in the software repository.

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Thank you! I used EasyTag.