Recording many MP3's into one single MP3 -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:Recording many MP3's into one single MP3 Posted by: MacGyver0013 Date:6/14/2002 11:45:32 PM I have a music CD (The Best Of Babylon 5) that has 15 track that blend into one another...you would only notice this is you were playing the CD in a normal CD player (the track changes but you never hear a pause, like one giant song). I have recorded the 15 tracks into MP3's using MusicMatch Jukebox Plus and they are all seperate MP3 files so the beginning and end of the songs just end suddenly when you play them individualy. Is there a way that I can load these MP3's into Sound Forge 5.0 and combine them all togeather and then save them as one entire MP3 so I don't hear a pause between the files? Thanks for your help, Mac
Subject:RE: Recording many MP3's into one single MP3 Reply by: Chienworks Date:6/15/2002 12:33:53 AM You've got one huge problem in that you've got them saved as MP3 files. Unfortunately, when encoding to MP3, a short silence is added to the beginning of the file. So even if you butted the files up against each other in SoundForge, there will be slight silent gaps. You could always trim these silences out, and the result will be as accurate as your patience allows. I would probably be better to rip the entire CD again as WAV files, load all these into SoundForge, then create a new MP3 file from them.
Subject:RE: Recording many MP3's into one single MP3 Reply by: MacGyver0013 Date:6/15/2002 12:16:11 PM Thanks, now that I ripped them into WAV format I can easily copy an entire WAV file and paste the WAV file right after the previous one without a pause, for some reason I can't do that with MP3's. Thanks, Mac
Subject:RE: Recording many MP3's into one single MP3 Reply by: jeffmott Date:6/16/2002 9:12:53 PM > Unfortunately, when encoding to MP3, a short silence is added to the beginning of > the file. This would be a result of your conversion program (or perhaps a user error). You will not get gaps simply because the file is an MP3. > You could always trim these silences out, and the result will be as accurate as > your patience allows. Or you could always use SoundForge's auto trim/crop and be done in two seconds with perfect accuracy.
Subject:RE: Recording many MP3's into one single MP3 Reply by: inspector Date:6/17/2002 10:43:46 AM I have read here that the silence at the start of an MP3 is part of the specs for MP3 encoding. Steve

Subject:Recording many MP3's into one single MP3

Posted by: MacGyver0013

Date:6/14/2002 11:45:32 PM

I have a music CD (The Best Of Babylon 5) that has 15 track that blend into one another...you would only notice this is you were playing the CD in a normal CD player (the track changes but you never hear a pause, like one giant song). I have recorded the 15 tracks into MP3's using MusicMatch Jukebox Plus and they are all seperate MP3 files so the beginning and end of the songs just end suddenly when you play them individualy.
Is there a way that I can load these MP3's into Sound Forge 5.0 and combine them all togeather and then save them as one entire MP3 so I don't hear a pause between the files?

Thanks for your help,
Mac

Subject:RE: Recording many MP3's into one single MP3

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:6/15/2002 12:33:53 AM

You've got one huge problem in that you've got them saved as MP3 files. Unfortunately, when encoding to MP3, a short silence is added to the beginning of the file. So even if you butted the files up against each other in SoundForge, there will be slight silent gaps. You could always trim these silences out, and the result will be as accurate as your patience allows.

I would probably be better to rip the entire CD again as WAV files, load all these into SoundForge, then create a new MP3 file from them.

Subject:RE: Recording many MP3's into one single MP3

Reply by: MacGyver0013

Date:6/15/2002 12:16:11 PM

Thanks, now that I ripped them into WAV format I can easily copy an entire WAV file and paste the WAV file right after the previous one without a pause, for some reason I can't do that with MP3's.

Thanks,
Mac

Subject:RE: Recording many MP3's into one single MP3

Reply by: jeffmott

Date:6/16/2002 9:12:53 PM

> Unfortunately, when encoding to MP3, a short silence is added to the beginning of
> the file.

This would be a result of your conversion program (or perhaps a user error). You will not get gaps simply because the file is an MP3.

> You could always trim these silences out, and the result will be as accurate as
> your patience allows.

Or you could always use SoundForge's auto trim/crop and be done in two seconds with perfect accuracy.

Subject:RE: Recording many MP3's into one single MP3

Reply by: inspector

Date:6/17/2002 10:43:46 AM

I have read here that the silence at the start of an MP3 is part of the specs for MP3 encoding.

Steve