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MP3 editing - Don't Do It!
Authored by: gidds on Jan 18, '05 08:34:14AM
Without converting?  It's not clear from the docs, but what I suspect it's doing is converting behind the scenes — doing the decompression and then recompression for you automatically.

In which case, every time you edit, that recompression will lose more sound quality.

In general, editing MP3s is a Bad Idea™ — far better to do all your edits in uncompressed form (WAV or AIFF) if you can, and only compress to MP3 once you're done.

Alternatively, there are apps (e.g. MP3Trimmer) which can do very limited edits to an MP3 file without de/recompressing, but that's limited to splitting, joining, and fading.

Audion looks flash, but for serious editing tasks, I use a shareware editor called Amadeus.  It doesn't try to be a player or a ripper, but concentrates on editing, and does it really well: simple to use, but really powerful.  I use for everything from tidying up radio recordings to sequencing and blending CD compilations to editing and mastering my own concert CDs.  Some of its more advanced features (noise reduction, restoration, timestretching, &c) rival or beat those in professional packages.  Well worth a look.  (Disclaimer: just a satisfied user.)

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