Why does Audacity insert a silence at the start of a mp3?

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Re: Why does Audacity insert a silence at the start of a mp3?

Post by kozikowski » Fri Sep 21, 2018 5:45 pm

on my Iphone, what other format can I use please?
You can cheat supersonically. In Audacity, copy/paste the tune one after the other as long as you want and then export the whole thing as one song. Somebody created a long edit of a favorite song that goes for 20 minutes. It takes me 20 minutes to walk to a favorite restaurant. Pig Heaven.

"Born, Born, Born to be alive."

This is a cousin to the splash screen at the front of a DVD. "Play Movie, Languages, Extras." DVDs don't loop. That's a fake loop. Somebody sat there in an editor and copy/pasted the background. If you stick with it long enough, you'll find the disturbance/glitch where it really loops, but nobody ever makes it that far.

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Re: Why does Audacity insert a silence at the start of a mp3?

Post by kozikowski » Fri Sep 21, 2018 5:54 pm

Multiple postings....
It's only for uploading to soundcloud.
What do you expect to happen to it? If it's going to be edited, then go the WAV route. If you expect people to just listen to it, them MP3 is the way to go. MP3 is an end-user format. For a stereo show, pick a compression quality at least 128.

If you want to Export an MP3 in Audacity, you have to install the Lame software.

Scroll down from the Audacity install page for your computer.

https://www.audacityteam.org/

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Re: Why does Audacity insert a silence at the start of a mp3?

Post by OurJud » Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:21 pm

kozikowski wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 21, 2018 5:54 pm
 Multiple postings....
It's only for uploading to soundcloud.
What do you expect to happen to it? If it's going to be edited, then go the WAV route. If you expect people to just listen to it, them MP3 is the way to go. MP3 is an end-user format. For a stereo show, pick a compression quality at least 128.

If you want to Export an MP3 in Audacity, you have to install the Lame software.

Scroll down from the Audacity install page for your computer.

https://www.audacityteam.org/

Koz
Yes, just for folk to listen to - no editing.

I already have the MP3 exporter plug-in installed, and this is what I've been uploading my tracks to soundcloud in, but after reading the posts about quality I thought the suggestion was sound quality would be better if exported as .wav files.

In that case I'll continue using MP3. Thanks.
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