Possible to trim MP3 without Loss of Quality?

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March 3, 2023
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Hi, I have a few samples of voiceover work that I've done which unfortunately contain 1-2 seconds of silence at the start. I don't have a WAV so I'm wondering if there's a way to trim the 320kbps MP3 inside Audition and re-export/re-save without further compression? There seems to be a few 3rd party apps that claim to be able to trim Losslessly so I'm looking to see if Audition or Media Encoder can do this and if not, what apps would be recommended?

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Correct answer emmrecs

Simple answer: No. Whenever you open an .mp3 in Audition it is automatically converted to .wav. Resaving the file to .mp3 is another conversion process so further compression and lossy.

I believe an app like this one is able to do what you want but I have never needed to do this so cannot say whether it might be suitable for you, or not!

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emmrecsCorrect answer

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Simple answer: No. Whenever you open an .mp3 in Audition it is automatically converted to .wav. Resaving the file to .mp3 is another conversion process so further compression and lossy.

I believe an app like this one is able to do what you want but I have never needed to do this so cannot say whether it might be suitable for you, or not!

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OrlandoJetsetAuthor

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Thanks for confirming and for providing a link. I've also seen an audio cutter by Clideo that may work, and I've asked Paul (who created ShutterEncoder) if his app can trim mp3 files losslessly. Hopefully one of these will garantee lossless trimming of the mp3.