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I want to cut mp3 files with Audacity without losing any quality (recording, etc.). I am aware of other options but I want to do it with Audacity if possible because I use it for other things too.
vasili111
Posted 2018-08-19T13:31:52.700
Reputation: 479
1You will have to export it as
.mp3sooner or later so it will always lose quality, unlike when using mp3DirectCut. – JAT86 – 2018-08-19T13:51:34.073Unless you use a lossless format for the edited files (see here), you will inevitably lose some quality, regardless of your editing software, since MP3 is a lossy format: an editor needs to decompress for editing and any lossy recompression will lose quality. When it has been important, I have managed to trim content from the start and end of compressed files with a binary editor, and restore the metadata afterwards, but it's a lot of hard work to find the cut points, and is realistic only for these most basic edits.
– AFH – 2018-08-19T13:54:31.797