[svlug] linux graphical lossless mp3 cutter?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:59:24 -0800, Joe Buck wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:38:45PM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
>> IME, [MP3] frame boundaries tend to occur at the most inopportune time indexes
>> (indices?), and I have never had the sync mechanism work both consistently
>> and properly.
> 
> So your alternative to lossless file editing is lossy file editing?  How
> could that possibly get a better result?  A poorly-positioned frame
> boundary, if it exists, has already caused distortion in the original
> file.  Moving it will just make things worse.  If the sync mechanism
> doesn't work for you every time, you need new software.

I know how that sounds; I thought the same way until I actually tried even
manually cutting the mp3 file as a last resort, and finally threw my hands
in the air and decompressed to PCM, after which I was startled by how
quickly I was then able to do what I wanted. Inevitably, I chose not to
compound the lossiness problem with a re-encode.