Subject:MP3 extra silence part

Posted by: minipod

Date:6/7/2004 10:20:51 AM

I want to make a short song that has to be looped over and over again in Flash. I want to render it as a mp3 file, but for some strange reason ACID makes an extra silent part in the start and in the end of the loop, so it then can't loop properly. The same thing happens when I try to save as mp3 in Sound Forge and Cubase SX. When I render as aif or wav I get no extra silent part. Is there a way to make an exact mp3-loop just as I want it?

Subject:RE: MP3 extra silence part

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:6/7/2004 10:31:29 AM

Unfortunately its part of the MP3 spec and can’t be avoided. MP3’s just don’t loop seamlessly. There’s nothing you can do about it (except don’t use MP3’s for looping)

~jr

Subject:RE: MP3 extra silence part

Reply by: minipod

Date:6/7/2004 10:43:32 AM

Oh I see. Thanks for the information.

Subject:RE: MP3 extra silence part

Reply by: plastique

Date:6/7/2004 11:13:17 AM

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

Subject:RE: MP3 extra silence part

Reply by: TDuck

Date:6/7/2004 12:21:15 PM

Render it as a WAV file and make MP3 right in Flash.
there'won't be any silent parts

Subject:RE: MP3 extra silence part

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:6/7/2004 1:12:06 PM

TDuck has the best answer. There is no need to create this file as an MP3 file. Flash is going to compress it anyway so the best option is to give it a WAV file. That way you get to trim it exactly the way you want it and you won't lose any quality by recompressing MP3 to MP3.