Converting mp3 stereo to mono (lossless) |
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Converting mp3 stereo to mono (lossless) |
 Feb 1 2013, 08:51
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Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 5-February 04 Member No.: 11792  |
I have a bunch of recordings that are mono by nature (speech), but have been encoded in forced stereo (not j-stereo) mode. The uncompressed versions no longer exist, so proper encoding from scratch is not possible.
Is there a tool for extracting one channel of these files and saving it as mono mp3s, without re-encoding? |
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Feb 1 2013, 14:04
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Group: Members Posts: 3080 Joined: 1-September 05 From: SE Pennsylvania Member No.: 24233 |
What you are asking is probably possible, but it is a lot of work just to make the files somewhat smaller. Unfortunately, the quality that was lost by using forced stereo can never be recovered.
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Feb 1 2013, 21:56
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Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 5-February 04 Member No.: 11792 |
Yes, file size optimization is what I'm looking for. 50% is a lot when you talk about large quantities. So basically nobody's ever done anything like that before because there's no demand?
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Feb 2 2013, 20:00
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Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 5-February 04 Member No.: 11792 |
I contacted the creator of mp3DirectCut and he also thought that it would be possible theoretically, but difficult to implement. So I guess I'm on my own here and have to program it myself. Thanks anyway.
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Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 20th May 2013 - 17:40 |
