[X4U] How To Anti-Encode Audio File

DZ-Jay dz at caribe.net
Sun Apr 24 14:50:00 PDT 2005


On Apr 24, 2005, at 17:42, Alex wrote:

> As to what an MP3 editor does, you have to understand that an MP3 file 
> is comprised of discrete frames (each with its own header). Frames can 
> be manipulated _without_ decoding. There are, of course, limits on 
> what can be done within these constraints; for instance, frames are 
> not necessarily independent, and it may not be possible to discard 
> (trim) single frames; more importantly, any kind of editing that has 
> to be done on the waveform itself (e.g., applying a noise gate) is not 
> possible.

You are right, however I was assuming the poster meant waveform editing.

	dZ.



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