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Increasing Quality of mp3 files?
    #7864068 - 01/11/08 09:21 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

songs that have been copied and pasted,moved from ipod to pc, between computers,etc. are fainter sounding than my newer songs.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Robo]
    #7864373 - 01/11/08 10:42 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

if an mp3 is encoded at 128kbps and you re-encode it at 320kbps the quality won't increase. i don't think there's much, if anything, you can do. :shrug:


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Robo]
    #7864495 - 01/11/08 11:16 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

are fainter sounding

Does it sound good if you turn the volume up? If so, there are utilities that will recode the file louder without otherwise affecting it.

But, if turning the volume up sounds louder but still crappy, there's not much you can do to improve it. That shouldn't happen, though, unless you've got some settings in iTunes wrong. You might be outputting to a low bitrate suitable for voice recordings but not music.

Poke around in the settings to see if you can find something labeled "MP3 Bitrate" or "MP3 Quality" or something like that and try outputing the file again.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Diploid]
    #7864513 - 01/11/08 11:19 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

I was thinking about messing with the equalizer settings for each individual song but that would take way too long, may be what I have to end up doing though.

I was hoping for a program I just dump all my bad sounding songs into and they pop out the other end better quality or something :tongue:


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Robo]
    #7864787 - 01/11/08 12:22 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

It sounds like these songs have been trans-coded from one compressed bit-rate to another.

Did you burn these mp3s onto CD and then later rip them to your PC from the disc? This will result in loss of quality and untrue bit rates.

The only quick fix is reacquiring the music.


Edited by SpiritualSnorkel (05/03/08 07:59 PM)


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Robo]
    #7865081 - 01/11/08 01:36 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

Boils down to one of two things...

1) your playback settings (or software) are screwed up
2) your SOL and will need to reacquire anything that sounds like crap


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Seuss]
    #7865126 - 01/11/08 01:47 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

SOL? :confused:


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: maggotz]
    #7865153 - 01/11/08 01:52 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

SOL


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: maggotz]
    #7865156 - 01/11/08 01:53 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)



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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Robo]
    #7865158 - 01/11/08 01:53 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

:lol:


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: maggotz]
    #7865376 - 01/11/08 02:44 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

flac files,


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: maggotz]
    #7865469 - 01/11/08 03:08 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

Urban Dictionary is your friend. I have yet to look up an obscure reference there that didn't have a definition:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sol


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Robo]
    #7881664 - 01/15/08 03:14 AM (16 years, 17 days ago)

It doesn't sound like the original poster is talking about transcoding -- it sounds like he's just copying files from one computer to another. If so, then the difference is entirely imaginary.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: SpiritualSnorkel]
    #7886857 - 01/16/08 12:22 AM (16 years, 17 days ago)

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It sounds like these songs might have been trans-coded from one compressed bit rate to another.

Did you burn these mp3s onto cd and then later on rip them back to your PC from the disc? This will result in loss of quality and untrue bit rates.

There's no quick fix for this except reacquiring the music over again.




Are you sure about this? I have burned MP3's to cd and the sound was measurably better. I had assumed that ripping them back at a higher bit rate would make even a better sounding MP3.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7887245 - 01/16/08 04:51 AM (16 years, 16 days ago)

Think about it. You cannot improve upon what ISNT there.

The mp3 will only be able to de-evolve to a lower bitrate. Not the other way around.

It's like when people ask if they can burn all their shitty bit-rated movies onto dvd and wonder why it looks like dog shit.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7887265 - 01/16/08 05:03 AM (16 years, 16 days ago)

> [Are you sure that] there is no quick fix for this except reacquiring the music over again.

Yep, assuming that the mp3s were transcoded.

When you make a copy with an analog system, like old cassette tapes, the analog signal is read from the tape and then recorded to a new tape. During this process, noise will enter the system. Noise will come from the tape heads, some from the electrical components, some from external sources, etc. Each time the recording is re-recorded, more noise is introduced. Eventually, after many copies, the original signal is so weak that one cannot hear it over the noise.

Digital media does not suffer from this problem. When you copy a digital encoding, no noise enters the system. Your copy is identical in every aspect to the original. You can make tens of thousands of copies and not lose any quality at all. You can copy to hard drive, to floppy drive, to optical media, to digital tape, and back to hard drive. The copy of the copy of the copy will still be identical to the original.

However, there is a catch. Digital encodings are massive in size. Digital encodings are so massive, that they become unrealistic to use. To overcome this problem, we use lossy compression. Lossy, as in the encoding engine (intentionally) loses information that can never be recovered during the compression. Done correctly, the human ear/eye/brain cannot detect the lost information, but the file can be over 100 times smaller than the original. MPEG, AC3, and JPEG are all forms of lossy compression. (FLAC is a non-lossy audio compression format, for those that care about quality.)

So, what does all of this mean? It means that in the digital world, lowering in quality occurs only at encoding, and never at copy. As long as you are making a bit for bit identical copy, you will not lose any quality compared to the original. However, each time you re-encode using a lossy encoder (such as mp3, ac3, aac, etc), you will lose quality. The more times you re-encode, the worse the quality will become.

Finally, there is no (realistic) way to improve the quality of a lossy compressed file by re-encoding it. You can only make it worse, not better. If you try to re-encode a 128k stream to 384k, you will make things worse, not better. I cannot stress this fact enough; re-encoding (from a lossy format to another lossy format) will always be worse than the original. Once the quality is lost, your only real recourse is to re-encode from the original source.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Seuss]
    #7887983 - 01/16/08 11:59 AM (16 years, 16 days ago)

I understand what you're saying about information being lost. What has confused me is it that I can rip mp3's to a CD and they sound way better. I just did search and people are even saying that this will result in lower quality. I'm quite certain that it helped significantly. My car stereo has the ability to play mp3 from a CD. The sound is what I would describe as hollow, not full, and there is typically heavy distortion at the volume I listen to them at, especially on bass. Simply burning these exact same mp3's to a CD in it's native format (I believe that's a .wav, correct?) corrects these problems.

Of course, it takes much more space. Where I may have had 50 songs (I don't remember exactly how many) I might now have 12, so obviously the file is much bigger. I had assumed that because the music was now being resampled at it's original bit rate, that was why it sounded better. I knew perfectly well it had lost information and wasn't as good as original, but it sounded a lot closer than the mp3 it was made from.

Now I had also assumed that taking this wav file and re-encoding it as a higher bit rate mp3 would even help the mp3 but had never tried it. It makes perfect sense to me what you're saying about not being able to recreate information that isn't there. Are you also saying that my ears are deceiving me about the burned CD's? No one here that I seen has directly answered this, but on my search earlier I saw numerous postings saying that doing so would also not help.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7888207 - 01/16/08 01:12 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

Your CD player may have better DA converters than your MP3 player. Enough so that it makes up for the entropy introduced by the re-coding process.

You can't make a photocopy of a photocopy and end up with something better than the original because errors accumulate as they propagate through each copy.

In this case, you're looking at the original without wearing your glasses, then looking at the copy with your glasses on. The copy is lower quality, but your glasses compensate enough to make it look better than the naked eye original.

That's the only explanation I can think of. Entropy is a bitch.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Diploid]
    #7888268 - 01/16/08 01:29 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

if yall want to get some good quality mp3's i suggest this guide.
http://www2.firehose.us:81/~jiggafellz/eac/index.html
jiGGafellz' Step-by-Step Guide to Secure CD Ripping w/Exact Audio Copy

as far as going mp3->wave->mp3, yes that will result in worse and worse sounding mp3's. u can use the spectral analysis tool in adobe audition to check if a mp3 was transcoded. u just have to compare spectrals to other spectrals of the same bitrate and encoder setting w/ similar music.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Diploid]
    #7889840 - 01/16/08 07:27 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

What I was explaining above was using the same CD player. It plays mp3 format from a CD (as a data disc). Just taking those exact mp3 and burning them to another CD as .wav files sounds significantly better.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that you had understood I was using a different source (and therefore DA converters) for the different formats.

Ok, I'm going to try and find some blank CDs (not sure I have any) and do this again with some new songs I've just downloaded and have my girlfriend be the judge. I won't tell her anything, just ask her to say which sounds better.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7889890 - 01/16/08 07:37 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

What I was explaining above was using the same CD player. It plays mp3 format from a CD (as a data disc). Just taking those exact mp3 and burning them to another CD as .wav files sounds significantly better.

Hmm... I'm stumped.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7890488 - 01/16/08 09:36 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

WTF do chicks know about music anyway! :lol:

She didn't want to participate in my little experiment, but agreed to listen to one song and I'll be truthful (if you couldn't tell by my first sentence) she actually picked the MP3. 

I burned a variety of mp3's (different types, bit rates, etc.) to a CD and then the exact same songs to CD as .wav files.  Everything was done using iTunes.

First, I'll say the difference was not as dramatic as I remember and was subjective.  There wasn't anything that jumped out at you and I actually had to listen several times before I could pick up the differences.  When I had done this before, I used Nero to copy the mp3 files to a CD as a data disc.  I'm not sure how or why it would, but is it possible that this method resulted in lower quality somehow? I only had 2 CD's left, so I can't test this.

There were a couple of things that did stand out though.  I have a fairly high-end car stereo and when listening to CD's the vocals often sound like they are coming from inside your head, it's difficult to pinpoint where they're coming from.  The instruments are similar to this to a point, you can pick their source, but in both cases they don't sound like they are coming from the speakers if that makes any sense.  With the mp3 CD this effect was absent.  It clearly did sound like the music was emanating from the speakers and was biased to the front.  The burned CD displayed the same effect that I'm used to with a regular CD.  Though not as impressive, it was noticeable. 

I wouldn't refer to the above as worse, just different.  The only thing I found that I still believe was worse on the mp3 CD was the lows.  Songs with heavy bass lines and instruments had a distorted quality to them when compared the burned CD.  Again though, this wasn't nearly as drastic as I remembered, but it was one of the things I did remember being a problem from before.

There was definitely a different sound between the two.  The closest thing I can compare it to that others might recognize is the difference between tube and solid state amps (before solid state amps got really good) though even less dramatically.  The mp3 CD still had what I would describe as a more tinny, less full sound.

Something I just thought of is making me think that my previous method (using Nero as data disc) had to have had something to do with this is that the volume on those discs was very low.  Even turning my head unit to the fullest wouldn't get too loud.  The 2 CD's I just made had the exact same levels and were plenty loud without turning it all the way up.  Though since these are digital copies, I can't figure out why they would be any different.  Unless iTunes is doing something to the files during the burning process?


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Diploid]
    #7890550 - 01/16/08 09:49 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

So what I still don't understand is where all the extra information comes from for the .wav files for the burned CD. The mp3 CD was 12 songs and around 60 MB. The .wav CD was 12 songs and nearly 600 MB.

This also made me just think that if an mp3 is derived from a wav by an algorithm shouldn't another algorithm be able to fill in some of those blanks similar to upscaling a DVD or enhancing satellite photos? It still wouldn't have the quality of the real .wav file, but it should be better correct?


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7890584 - 01/16/08 09:55 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

So what I still don't understand is where all the extra information comes from for the .wav files

It's extrapolated.

MP3 is a lossy system. When you go back to a .wav file (CD) the lost bits are filled in with a best guess.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Diploid]
    #7890678 - 01/16/08 10:09 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

So they have basically developed another algorithm like I said above and that's how they decode mp3's to wav? If that's the case and quality still isn't added, couldn't there be a discrepancy between decoders or do they all use the same algo?


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7890742 - 01/16/08 10:19 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

Well, I'm not sure what you're asking but, when you go from .mp3 to .wav, you ALWAYS get the same .wav. The decoder is deterministic.

When you go from .wav to .mp3, the result depends on which encoder you used because the final result is a function of what psycho-acoustic model (which bits of sound are discarded in the hopes that nobody listening will notice) the engineer used when writing the code.

Not sure if that answers your question though.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7890774 - 01/16/08 10:24 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

there are different mp3 encoders. the best is lame. others are fgh, xing, and some other crap i can't remember. for optimum size/quality, use lame V0 (variable bit rate, avg bitrate of 250). eac is a great cd ripper when properly set up. u can use the link i provided to set it up. i also like to rip cd's to flac and then re-encode them to mp3 w a program called all2lame. this is an acceptable way to re-encode b/c it is lossless->lossy.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Diploid]
    #7890889 - 01/16/08 10:43 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

Well I went and did some reading and think I have it figured out. What you said is spot on, I just didn't understand the process very well.

Decoding an mp3 to wav will result in nearly the exact same file across all platforms because it's simply recording the audio stream created by playing the mp3. Nearly because there can be some very slight discrepancies. Probably nothing a human could perceive though.

You're exactly right about encoding.

The effect I was describing before is well known and a direct result of the psycho-acoustic model they used to encode a mp3. To save space, what was stereo will often be converted to mono and simply played back through different channels. This destroys the sound stage. What it doesn't explain is why I hear that soundstage somewhat fixed from the decoded CD.

I'm not the first person to think that wav files decoded from mp3's sounded better - many have reported the same thing - but every authority I have found claims this is impossible. I hate to admit it, but until I can produce or see evidence to the contrary, I suppose my ears were playing tricks on me and my bias or preconceptions influenced what I perceived.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: iateshaggy]
    #7890946 - 01/16/08 10:56 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

Yeah, thanks a lot for that link.  :rolleyes:

Because of you, I'm now considering re-ripping several hundred of my CDs.  At least I hadn't done them all. :smile:


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Diploid]
    #7891748 - 01/17/08 03:46 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

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when you go from .mp3 to .wav, you ALWAYS get the same .wav.







This is not true. The wav file produced depends on the decoder, since not all decoders decode according to the ISO/IEC decoding standard.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7891757 - 01/17/08 04:16 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

> I'm now considering re-ripping several hundred of my CDs.

Look into FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) before you do. You won't be disappointed, as long as you have disk space.

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when you go from .mp3 to .wav, you ALWAYS get the same .wav.







This is not true. The wav file produced depends on the decoder, since not all decoders decode according to the ISO/IEC decoding standard.




I think he meant on the same machine, if you run the same program to translate, you aways get the same output from the same input. His point was that the translation doesn't add "random" data. Everything is discrete.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Seuss]
    #7892155 - 01/17/08 09:07 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

I wish I did. From what I see with FLAC, you can expect around a 45% reduction in size at best, is that correct? Still way to much for me, my collection is just too big. I have around 23,000 songs right now at 100+ GB and I still haven't ripped all my CD's. Granted that isn't much disc space, but going to FLAC would require more disc space orders of magnitude larger.

I hope we have a revolution in storage density soon. Even CD's in their native format are a compromise. I've had the opportunity to spend some time around a recording studio and to hear the songs in their original state, still tracked out at much high sample rates is amazing. The problem here is that one song could be several hundred MB or more depending on the setting they use.

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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: Seuss]
    #7892201 - 01/17/08 09:24 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

Well, we can finally chalk most of what I though up to poor memory. I found another disk earlier and used Nero to make a data disc of those same mp3s and they sound identical to the ones burned from iTunes.

The only thing I can think of that may have caused me to remember it the way I did is that when I originally started ripping my CD's I had it on a low setting/bit rate. I think I didn't notice it at first because of my shitty computer speakers, but once I burned it and played it in my car, the distortion was evident. That made me start over at at least 160 kpbs for everything. I did a lot of experiments then with the music and I just must have confused them.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7892218 - 01/17/08 09:30 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

One last thing though, since decoding an mp3 back to wav isn't actually any sort of algorithm like I first thought, that question stands. Shouldn't, in theory at least, someone be able to develop an algorithm to extrapolate some of the missing data from an mp3?

Like I stated earlier, if they can do it with images and video, why not music?


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7894095 - 01/17/08 05:44 PM (16 years, 15 days ago)

to your last question, no. think of the sound wave from a song as a rectangle. when u encode to mp3, the top 1/4-1/3 of the rectangle gets chopped off, then vertical stripes are cut out of it and replaced w/ the echo of the space before it. once that info is gone, its gone.

as for cd ripping bitrates and quality, if u are using the ripper i gave, the V0 switch gives u 320 bitrate sound at 250 bitrate size. if u ever care to get into private bit torrent communities, it is the prefered method accross the board.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: iateshaggy]
    #7896263 - 01/18/08 07:18 AM (16 years, 14 days ago)

here is some spectrals of a file i have. they were taken from the same point of the same song to show the difference b/w lossy vs. lossless.

this is mp3 V0 (average bitrate 250). notice how it looks pixelated compared to flac, that is from data loss.


flac, details are very fine and there is no vertical cut-offs.


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Re: Increasing Quality of mp3 files? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7896269 - 01/18/08 07:20 AM (16 years, 14 days ago)

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It sounds like these songs might have been trans-coded from one compressed bit rate to another.

Did you burn these mp3s onto cd and then later on rip them back to your PC from the disc? This will result in loss of quality and untrue bit rates.

There's no quick fix for this except reacquiring the music over again.




Are you sure about this? I have burned MP3's to cd and the sound was measurably better. I had assumed that ripping them back at a higher bit rate would make even a better sounding MP3.




It's analogous to taking a picture of a picture with a nice camera and hoping the second one looks better than the first.


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