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ORCADES_VIKING
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December 15, 2016
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Audition 2017 - can I add simultaneously MP3s for enhancing their quality

  • December 15, 2016
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Good Day Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I just installed my Audition CC 2017 and I am trying to sort out at once all my favourite MP3 audio files and to enhance their quality at the end.

I would like to ask you kindly - can I add simultaneously 500 MP3 audio files and to process them at once please?

Is this function possible and how to do the task accordingly.

Thank you so much for your time taken to read my message and your further assistance in this particular matter.

Warm regards,

Viking

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Correct answer SteveG_AudioMasters_

If you open MP3 files at all in Audition, they will be decoded to Audition's working format (uncompressed wav files), and if you subsequently resave them as MP3s, then their quality will be even further degraded, as they have to be re-encoded again. The chances of 'improving' an MP3 file this way are, to say the very least, slender, as any supposed improvement will be accompanied by an inevitable downgrade of quality - often quite noticeable.

MP3 is a compressed distribution format, not intended to be used or altered, as such. It's the last stage you go through when creating material - everything else happens uncompressed.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community ExpertCorrect answer
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December 15, 2016

If you open MP3 files at all in Audition, they will be decoded to Audition's working format (uncompressed wav files), and if you subsequently resave them as MP3s, then their quality will be even further degraded, as they have to be re-encoded again. The chances of 'improving' an MP3 file this way are, to say the very least, slender, as any supposed improvement will be accompanied by an inevitable downgrade of quality - often quite noticeable.

MP3 is a compressed distribution format, not intended to be used or altered, as such. It's the last stage you go through when creating material - everything else happens uncompressed.

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ORCADES_VIKINGAuthor
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December 16, 2016

Hi Steve,

Thank you for your swift and professional answer - highly appreciated.

Let me explain myself again- can I enhance the quality of the MP3 format with the help of Effects-Amplitude and Compression-Amplify? As I can see that I can do that and the sound certainly is much more stronger and better than the previous sound ...

Thank you once again....

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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December 16, 2016

ORCADES_VIKING wrote:

Let me explain myself again- can I enhance the quality of the MP3 format with the help of Effects-Amplitude and Compression-Amplify? As I can see that I can do that and the sound certainly is much more stronger and better than the previous sound ...

Thank you once again....

If you have MP3 files that are peaking below about -3dB then you might be able to make them a bit louder - but because of the decode/encode situation I wouldn't use Audition to do it. There's software about that can alter the volume characteristics of an MP3 without going through that process (I should point out that this is about the only thing you can alter on an MP3), and this would be a much better bet in terms of preserving the quality.

One example of this sort of software, which also has batching capability is here: Mp3 Volumer: Increase the volume of audio music files but there are also others around, if you do a search.

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