[X4U] How To Anti-Encode Audio File

[Dennis Thompson II]

Kansas Territory wrote:

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> On Apr 24, 2005, at 12:45 PM, Dave Checkman wrote:
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>> Well, the verdict is unanimous. Easier to squeeze the toothpaste out 
>> than ...
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>> Nonetheless, one would think that software producers would more 
>> closely attend to providing "fail-safe" measures in case of user 
>> stupidity like mine. Somehow, the whole area involving audio/video 
>> processing seems especially to cry out for that. Why, for example, 
>> don't these producers automatically make "backups" at each audio 
>> processing user decision point? (Sure, it takes a lot of HD space. So 
>> let the user decide whether to enable this function.)
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> if you have an aiff file and you have itunes create an .mp3 file, the 
> original .aiff files remain.  Correct ?     you have to make the 
> decision, to DELTE the .aiff file your self.  And I think iTunes does 
> ask you "are you sure" before you delete ?
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> Kansast
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>> And, Alex, thanks for your tip about MP3Trimmer; it's real nice. For 
>> $8.95 who can complain?
>>
>> Dave
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The above points are good.  I would also recommend Audacity as a 
trimmer/editor.  It's opensource freeware and works extremely well for a 
wide variety of formats.  It also uses a scratch file so that changes 
made do not affect the original file unless you tell the progam to do so.

Sky