Technical question about mp3s - help a brother out?!!

Forensics · Post by **Forensics** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:53 am

I work for London Buses, and I'm knocking up some mp3s for route announcements & stuff....

Every time I re-open an mp3 file (in Audition) it seems to be adding a few miliseconds to the beginning and end of the file!

Normally this wouldn't be an issue, but I need to be really precise with the timing of these files.

Is this a standard thing with mp3s? Am I doing something wrong..? It's doing my head in!!

badger · Post by **badger** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:55 am

may not be the same but when i used to make mixes with itunes it used to automatically add a few seconds blank space at the end of/start of songs. you could turn that off in options somewhere.... could it be something like that?

Forensics · Post by **Forensics** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:58 am

Yeah, that was my first thought. But couldn't find any such option in Audition

Of course possible I'm missing something though....

vonboyage · Post by **vonboyage** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:02 am

This shudnt be happening at all, try another proggy

See wat happens

Forensics · Post by **Forensics** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:05 am

Trouble is - my version of Soundforge is knackered, Audition's the only one I use for stuff
like this. Any half decent free programmes floating about anywhere you can recommend?

Good to know it definitely shouldn't be happening anyway, that's a start....

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:07 am

Vonboyage wrote:This shudnt be happening at all, try another proggy

See wat happens

that was gonna be my advice, could just be the program

I wouldnt recomend it for much more than basic stuff, but Audacity doesnt do that for me, I use it alot for my mixes... maybe you can do the major stuff in Audition and trim the excess in Audacity?

Forensics · Post by **Forensics** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:11 am

I've got the files in wav format now, all as they should be.

There's only a few of them, and there only a few seconds long....

ANY chance someone could convert them For me?!!!!

vonboyage · Post by **vonboyage** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:12 am

ill do it wen i get on pc... gime 5

Forensics · Post by **Forensics** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:14 am

You absolute star!!

PM'ing you now....

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:34 am

Is it to do with the sampling rate of the file and the project you have open? I mean that if you open a 44.1k wav in a 48k project it'll have to stretch a bit won't it? I dunno if that makes sense, my brain is still fucked from Sunday and I'm a tad ill. Hope you gets it sorted.

obviouzx · Post by **obviouzx** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:37 am

Lol i had that problem opening the Wavs in ACID

Sounded stretched..

Everything sounds cool in SOUNDFORGE, though.

Forensics · Post by **Forensics** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:49 am

Bang!!

Time to replace my copy of Soundforge I think....

Forensics · Post by **Forensics** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:18 pm

All sorted now, thanks to Mr Von. Cant thank you enough mate!

And cheers to everyone else for the input, also much appreciated

Technical question about mp3s - help a brother out?!!

Technical question about mp3s - help a brother out?!!

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