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Managing
MP3Using Freeware
Wijono Hadikusumo
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Table of Contents PREFACE .............................................................................................................................. iii
CHAPTER 1 – SOUND RECORDING ........................................................................................ 1
A. A Brief History ......................................................................................................... 1
B. Digital Era................................................................................................................ 4
C. Compact Disc .......................................................................................................... 5
CHAPTER 2 – COMPRESSED DIGITAL AUDIO ......................................................................... 7
A. What Is Audio Compression .................................................................................... 7
B. Lossless Audio Compression .................................................................................... 7
C. Lossy Audio Compression ........................................................................................ 8
CHAPTER 3 –
ABOUT MP3 .................................................................................................... 9
A. File Structure .......................................................................................................... 9
B. Bitrates ................................................................................................................. 13
C. MP3 Quality .......................................................................................................... 19
CHAPTER 4 – MP3 TAGGING ............................................................................................... 20
A. ID3 Tag Version 1 .................................................................................................. 20
B. ID3 Tag Version 2 .................................................................................................. 21
C. What ID3 Version To Use ...................................................................................... 25
D. APE Tag Version 2 ................................................................................................. 25
CHAPTER 5 – ORGANIZING MP3 FILES ................................................................................ 27
A. File Naming ........................................................................................................... 27
B. Managing Folder ................................................................................................... 28
C. Database ............................................................................................................... 29
D. Playlist .................................................................................................................. 35
CHAPTER 6 – MP3 TAG EDITOR .......................................................................................... 36
A. Which MP3 Tag Editor ........................................................................................... 36
B. Some Essential Settings ......................................................................................... 37 C. Editing ID3 Tag ...................................................................................................... 40
D. Get Tag Data Online .............................................................................................. 44
E. Copy Filename To Tag ........................................................................................... 46
F. Copy Tag To Filename ........................................................................................... 47
G. Export Data For Database ..................................................................................... 48
H. Playlist .................................................................................................................. 50
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CHAPTER 7 – MP3 VOLUME NORMALIZATION ................................................................... 51
A. The Basic ............................................................................................................... 51
B. Which Freeware To Use ........................................................................................ 55
C. Essential Settings .................................................................................................. 56
D. The Toolbar ........................................................................................................... 57 E. The File List View................................................................................................... 58
F. Track Mode Normalization .................................................................................... 59
G. Album Mode Normalization .................................................................................. 60
H. Constant Gain ....................................................................................................... 61
I. Progress Bars And Status Bar ................................................................................ 62
J. Remove Normalization .......................................................................................... 62
K. Clear Something .................................................................................................... 63
L. A Bit Of Technical Stuff .......................................................................................... 64
M. Filename Limitation .............................................................................................. 65
CHAPTER 8 –
MP3 TRIMMING ............................................................................................ 66
A. The Freeware ........................................................................................................ 66
B. Menu Bar And Progress Bar .................................................................................. 67
C. Silence Setting....................................................................................................... 67
D. Auto Trimming ...................................................................................................... 68
E. Manual Trimming .................................................................................................. 69
F. Add Pause ............................................................................................................. 69
G. Fade-in And Fade-out ............................................................................................ 70
H. Fixing Errors .......................................................................................................... 71
I. Filename Limitation .............................................................................................. 72
CHAPTER 9 – MP3 CONVERSION......................................................................................... 73
A. Comparison Of VBR MP3 ....................................................................................... 73
B. Which Freeware To Use ........................................................................................ 76
C. Few Words On The Installation ............................................................................. 77
D. Some Recommended Settings ............................................................................... 77
E. Converting To MP3 ............................................................................................... 80
F. Some Limitations .................................................................................................. 81
Index ................................................................................................................................... 83
About The Author ............................................................................................................... 85
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PREFACE
The main purpose of this ebook is to enable MP3 collectors with large or small collections
alike to carry out the managing of their MP3 collections systematically using the available
freeware. What is meant under the term ‘managing’ in this ebook is organizing,
customization and fixing, organizing is arranging systematic file storage, file naming, simple
database and playlists, customization includes properly doing the tagging and conversion of
MP3 files, whereas fixing includes volume normalization and trimming of MP3 music as
necessary. In every part the motto is simplicity.
The freeware selected in this ebook are Windows operating system based and author’s
preferences, they might not necessarily be the best ones, which is in anyway very relative
and subjective, but that the author and many others feel satisfied using them.
This ebook begins with the brief history of sound recording from the Edison’s tin cylinder era
up to the digital audio recording, then focuses on the topic of this ebook, which is MP3,
starting with its basics like file structure, bitrate and quality. All descriptions are made in asimplified way, not too technical and avoiding mathematical expression as much as possible,
with other words limited only to real necessity. As such it shall be suitable for everyone.