whats your favorite mp3 utility?

mine are MAD plug-in for winamp, EncSpot, mp3utility, and tag&rename.

mp3ulitity ONLY detects errors...does it also fix the problem?

are there more essential mp3 ulitity that i need?

whats your favorite mp3 player [eq. winamp]

Helium

I enjoy viewing mp3s in UltraEdit32, the text-editor that doubles as a hex editor. Or perhaps a hextextitor! I don't know? Usually my viewing is less informative than simply using Winamp to play said mp3s, though I wouldn't really consider Winamp a "utility."

Do I have to say?


Helium2!!!!

First treatment that any MP3 files should receive: ID3kill. Especially ID3v2 tagged ones.

You can't help it can you?

MP3 Collector

http://www.collectorz.com/mp3/

BTW does anybody know of a freeware ID3-tagger and/or a ID3-stripper/killer that will work on specified files (or on specified fileextensions) reagrdless of fileformat?

In other words; If I want to add/remove ID3 tags to a bunch of files (for instance MPC, OGG, JPG, or whatnot) what program could do this?

hmmmm.... no.

but I think the free version of helium2 has a removing tool. I can't be sure though.

It will work on mpc/mp+ and mp3.

simple. iTunes --> iTunesLameScript --> iPod.

sources (in order):

http://www.apple.com/itunes/

http://www.blacktree.com/scripts.html

http://www.apple.com/ipod/

brett.

Hi. I like Naoki Shibata's eq for winamp http://www.milky.ne.jp/~galaxy/

Also mp3cue at guerillasoft

whats helium2 and mp3cue? what does it do?

mp3ulitity ONLY detects errors...does it also fix the problem?

Helium2:
someone with a greencard to be allow to speak about it should tell you what it is.

I do not have such a greencard.

i read that mp3trim fixes "sync errors"... does it work

for normalizing mp3's.. which one is better [without degrading audio quality] mp3trim or mp3gain?

well.. mp3gain is free while mp3trim is not...

Dude, you're trippin'. Stop it please.

I have specifically said to you that you and everybody are allowed to speak about Helium2 and anything legal. Do you need a manifest from all the admins and mods, or what??

However, I'm getting a bit tired to your comments claiming that you can't speak freely here...

Also, if I were Helium2 developer, I would give a hint to a certain individual about some methods that may not help Helium2 at all, but rather only irritate people, which may result that people see Helium2 in negative light... Unless you believe in the saying "any publicity is good publicity".

I have exactly what I want now.
A statement that I can point certain ppl to that have said I shouldn't talk about certain programs. I've been trying to force this now since no mod.'s steeped in when I was asked to shut up.


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Ok, let's get back to making this a nice place again.



Helium2 is a tagger and an audio file managing program.
It can currently tag mp3's and mpc's with id3v1 & id3v2.
Ogg tag format would maybe be added in the future.
I think it's safe to say that it's the most complete tagger and my personal oppion is that it's also the best (tagger and managing program).



Regards,
Jan.

Difficult to choose one: :confused:
- EAC (*)
- LameBatch (with Lame of course) (*)
- Tag & Rename
- MPEG Audio Collection (MAC)
- EncSpot

Merg

Mp3Trim IS INDEED free. There is also a Pro version, but the free version works great. It won't trim HUGE mp3's, but an older free version, ver 1.26 (which I wisely saved) does . Anyway, it's a great app! Highly reccomended! You can also use it to fade in and fade out - without decoding and re-encoding.

http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/mp3trim.htm

Mp3trim and mp3gain both use exactly the same quality-preserving method to modify mp3's. The difference is in how each program decides how much to change the mp3's. The "Auto" volume button in mp3trim simply finds the peak amplitude of the decoded mp3, then amplifies the mp3 so that it's as loud as possible without any clipping.
Mp3gain calculates how loud the mp3 actually sounds to the human ear, then adjusts the mp3 so its average volume is set to a chosen level.

Mp3trim has other nifty features, though, which is why I still use it also.

-Glen

Linux! (debian, of course)

MPPEnc (latest) using --xtreme
cdparanoia using never-continue-on-skip

and, to wrap it all together, GRIP

couldn't be simpler.. I am amazed about all the things I see about all the windows software and how most doesn't work well and there are soo many revisions.. hrmm..

I've never had a problem

And the winner is:
MP3 Tag Studio 2.x
http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts
(only annoying thing is that it contains adware, but that can be completely removed when you register)

runners up:
EncSpot, MP3gain, RazorLame and all the Batch utilities from Speek.
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Ge Someone

I'd hate to omit MP3Direct Cut

It's here

But where to get LAME 3.91 binaries for MacOS (9 instead of X)?

Any tips?

cheers,
Halcyon

EAC + LAME 3.91 + id3ed (if needed) + cksfv

and just recently MP3Gain

My list:

- EAC
- MP3Trim
- Tag Edit Pro (or Tag & Rename for ID3.2)
- MPEG Audio Collection (MAC)
- EncSpot
- Messer & Lamer for rec.

damjang

I am using the new EAC and Lame 3.91. Exciting, isn't it?

Winamp.

Cdex
(very recently) Easy Lame
EncSpot

And of course Winamp is my player of choice using the Dee plug-in.

I wouldn't consider EAC to be specifically an mp3 utility but it's certainly one of my fav apps. Another program that is definitly not specific to m3's that I like is Redfox Indexer. It's very nice for making text lists of mp3's that include bit-rate, file-size and song length info.

Rant:

Do you have a link for Redfox Indexer? It sounds interesting, but I can't seem to find it.

Regards,
Madrigal

And my favourite tools are :

EAC : for ripping.

Helium2 : mp3 tagging and cleaning tags

MediaJukebox : playing, organizing, converting formats, tagging, burning. I find this software xtremely convenient when you have multiple formats in your collection (mine is made of APE, MPC, MP3).

His url isn't working anymore and I tried emailing him but got no response. If you want to send me some contact info through email or a PM I can either set you up to d/l it from my ftp server or I can flip it to you on email (it's under 2 1/2 megs).

In order (that I use to create/manage MP3's):

EAC
RazorLame (& Lame 3.91)
ID3-TagIT (free, just like Tag & Rename)
MP3Gain
MP3 Utility (to find bad MP3s)
Huge hard drive on my server
2 AudioTrons, hooked to living room & bedroom stereos
Archos Jukebox (20 GB)

Oh yeah - and one critically important utility:

Freecell!!! (to pass the time while things are happening )

(and, I guess, my blender - to make margaritas!)

Mostly
- Winamp
- EAC
- Lame
- MPPenc
- Encspot
- ID3Master (for IDv1)
- Helium TR (for removing IDv2)
- MAC

That's about it.

[in no special order]
- lame (--alt-preset standard)
- oggenc (-q 5.0)
- ogg123
- mpg123
- xmms
- grip
- winamp
- eac
- oggdrop
- Razorlame

X

Lameb, without a doubt the fastest and easiest tagger/encoding automator... once you have it configured.

For mp3? That would be 'del'.

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GCP

Garf,

Then why are you condescending so much as to even read an mp3 thread?

Madrigal

Hi Garf,
Constructive comments always welcome..............................

auldyin

EAC
RazorLame (& Lame 3.91)
MP3Gain

mp3Ext - http://www.mutschler.de/mp3ext/
(free & its icon-handler rocks for seeing mp3 bitrates)

Tag&ReName
[but will try the greencard-impaired Helium2 ]

Music Match Jukebox 7
[would appreciate thoughts on a better player for handling and creating playlists out of preference, mood, tempo, etc tags]

1. Home made batch file creator for making batch files which encode several formats at the same time... (Quite useful actually... )
2. EAC...
3. lame.exe (--alt-preset 256)
4. id3v2tag (Home made ID3v2.3 commandline tagger for adding tags that Lame doesn´t support...)

And I´m also using Winamp with the MAD plug-in...

Aha, interesting, care to share this tool?

Sheesh people, it was a joke.

Like this ->

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GCP

Hi,

Have you tried playing with categories and smartlists ?
All right MJ8 seems better in that area. But really I don't see a better player for managing playlists so far.

cheers

my mistake Race,

You wrote Music Match Jukebox 7 and I read MediaJukebox 7 :confused: sorry !

Well, in that case, why don't you try MediaJukebox then ? I used to be a Music Match user until I discovered MediJukebox and its great playlist features like categories and smartlists.
This program may seem a bit complicated at first but once you've made the effort I think it's worth it !
(http://www.mediajukebox.com/)

Sure why not... But unfortunatly it may not appeal you considering it only supports the following frames: TOPE, TIT2, TALB, TYER, TPE1, TRCK, TCON and TENC... (Frame/header names described on www.id3.org ... I made the application so I could write TOPE and TENC frames... And also so that I could write my own ID3v2.3 tags to my AAC files...) But if there are any other frames that you wish to be able to "create", then just say it and I´ll add it as soon as I can and "publish" it...

Well, since you're asking...TPE1-4 and TSSE would be fantastic for me...

why id3v2.3?
why not id3v2.4?