mp3 cuts off...

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Whenever I use the program to convert from .wav to .mp3, the last seven seconds of the track get cut off. How can I fix this?

- Raphael

[ChristinaS]

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Whenever I use the program to convert from .wav to .mp3, the last seven seconds of the track get cut off. How can I fix this?

- Raphael

Do you mean the track is sped up by 7 seconds? or effectively the last 7 seconds of audio get cut off? Or is it that you simply no longer ehar audio for those last 7 seconds? And is it always 7 seconds, for all wav to mp3 conversions?

What type of wav file (8, 16, 24-bit or bits as source, sampling frequency, channels) and what settings are you using for the mp3?

[Unregistered]

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The last seven seconds get cut off. This happens for all wav to mp3 conversions. It happens to be that all the wavs I'm converting are of approx. 30 min length, so I don't know what would happen with a file of less length: either 7 seconds would get cut off, or it'd be commensurate to the length of audio.

The wav files are 16 bit, 44100, mono, being converted to mp3s of the same frequency and channel at a bitrate of 32 Kbps.
When I add seven blank seconds at the end of the track, those seconds are the ones that are cut off and the track comes out fine.

[ChristinaS]

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Sorry, I am not able to reproduce any of this using either Lame or Blade mp3 encoder. Maybe somebody else has a better idea.

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Thanks, Christina.

Anyone...?

- Raphael

[Unregistered]

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Also -- this might help in solving the problem -- that the 7 seconds get cut off when the encoding (in advanced options) is set to constant bitrate. However, when the setting is average bitrate, the mp3 retains the length of the original wav file, but it the audio is stretched over the length of the file such that the track (now in mp3 format) has the same length as the wav, but the audio remains cut off.

- Raphael

[ChristinaS]

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When I add seven blank seconds at the end of the track, those seconds are the ones that are cut off and the track comes out fine.

Sorry, I'm more curious than potentially onto anything :p

How do you add 7 "blank seconds" at the end? Are you using a wav editor program?

Or are you capturing from something like dMC Auxiliary Input and just let it record an extra 7 seconds of silence?

[Unregistered]

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"Or are you capturing from something like dMC Auxiliary Input and just let it record an extra 7 seconds of silence?"

Yup

- Raphael

[ChristinaS]

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"Or are you capturing from something like dMC Auxiliary Input and just let it record an extra 7 seconds of silence?"

Yup

- Raphael

Are you using Auto start and Auto stop?

[Unregistered]

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Nope.

- Raphael

[ChristinaS]

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Nope.

- Raphael

Well, then, how about trying to use it ? Not much to lose except some more time :D

[Unregistered]

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How would that be possibly connected to the problem I'm having?

- Raphael

[Spoon]

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Check no DSP Effects are running.