Track length vary

[fooz]

Hello everyone!

I’ve got mp3 file with length ~21m55s.
After I import it into the Audacity It became ~21m44s.
So, I’ve made a flack from original track and imported it. From flack I got ~21m53s.
Better, but why it differs?
You could see in attach “Tracks.jpg”. There are two identical tracks, but one was mp3 and other one is flac.

At the beginning they are not shifted!
I’m using Audacity 2.1.2.

[Gale_Andrews]

@fooz

I’ve got mp3 file with length ~21m55s.

In what app are you reading the MP3 file’s length? If it’s a variable bit rate MP3, not all apps can read the file length accurately. Some apps may read an accurate length from the file’s TLEN metadata tag, if that is included.

@fooz

After I import it into the Audacity It became ~21m44s.

So, I’ve made a flack from original track and imported it. From flack I got ~21m53s.
Better, but why it differs?

Do you mean FLAC? See above and http://lame.sourceforge.net/tech-FAQ.txt.

@fooz

At the beginning they are not shifted!

What were you hoping for? MP3 will import with silence padding. See the LAME tech-FAQ in the above link.

Do not use MP3 unless you accept its limitations. In particular it is a lossy format, unlike WAV and FLAC.


Gale