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If you are just topping and tailing then you may want to take a look at mp3directcut (http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html) which can edit mp3 without having to decode & recode, it can also handle mp2 & aac with dll plugins.
I would swear that I had managed to open these audio files in audacity!
Still no luck now. Doesn’t matter if it is the original ‘mp3’ or whether I change the extension to mp2 or back again.
I have no idea what I am doing differently!
Have also tried mp3DirectCut with the mpglib.dll but also no success.
From my brief reading, audacity should be able to import these file.
*shrug*
Probably something simple and obvious I’m missing!
Sorry for all the posts! Don’t know if these are helpful to anyone else!
Anyway, I have now tried changing the extension to .ts and that opens in audacity. I have tried this with 3 different audio files (just to remind myself it wasn’t just a once off)
Now to see if this works tomorrow!
So, to play the copied audio file – change the extension to .mp2
to import/open/drag&drop in audacity – change the extension to .ts
Further update on the using audacity to edit
Audacity will import the ‘mp3’
1. File menu > Import > Audio
2. Select “FFmpeg compatible files” as the file type filter
3. Select the file and click OK.
Need to have installed FFmpeg for Audacity.
Perhaps I had ‘accidently’ clicked on the FFmpeg compatible files and thats why audacity imported the files for me, and why the drag/drop didn’t works.
Changing the extension to .ts and drag&drop still works too.
I had a test file that someone on the audacity forum checked out. Here’s the basic info:
It is MPEG-2 encoded (more accurately it is “MPEG-1 Audio Layer II”) but not quite ‘normal’ mp2.
2 min 53 seconds of audio at 160 kbps should have a file size of (120 + 53) x (160 /
= 3460 kB = 3.46 Mb.The actual file size is 19.6 Mb, indicating a lot of other “stuff” in the file that is not proper audio.
Hope that helps others.
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