My son is doing audio work and MP3 is left for the FINAL encoding. Until the work is completed he uses WAVE files since these don't need uncompressing to play. Hence almost no delay or skip.
Once they assemble the sound file then they can run it through Audacity or another tool to make the final MP3.
Now there are some that will learn this the hard way.
Bob
Hi. I'm a rank newbie, so please bear with me. I'm recording a very long audio book using Morph Vox Pro to create a variety of mostly female characters out of my dull male voice, and adding sound effects on top of them. I have to record a separate .wav file each time the story changes from one voice to another, then weave them all together using Wavepad Editor 4.28 and save it as a .mp3 file. Once the .mp3 is created I spend a long time adding sound effects I've created or found at freesound.org. I save the file every half hour or so to safeguard against data loss in case of a crash and it just occurred to me that it may be losing sound quality with repeated saves. Does that happen? If so I'll be careful to save that file fewer times. One chapter is 90 minutes long and I must have saved it a hundred times.
Currently I'm saving the .mp3 at a bitrate of 128, with the High quality encoding (slower) box checked. The channel encoding mode is stereo and the "include CRC to Detect Errors" box is checked, although I'm pretty clueless what all that means.
Also, when I play the .mp3 in realPlayer or in Wavepad, the sound will sometimes skip forward just like a scratchy old vinal record. Is there any preferred format for saving that file that will minimize that skipping I described?
I'm running Windows XP home edition and using a Plantonics headset/microphone for the dictation.
Any help with these perplexing issues would be most appreciated.
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