[Gobd]

I have tons of mp3 that have clipping, what does it do to the actual sound? Is what it does noticable to the average ear? How can i make it so my mp3's don't clip? Make the explanation fairly simple because i don't know a lot of advanced audio terms

 

[Gobd]

*bump* for the day people. I'll probably bump it two more times, once for the evening people then once for the night people and then let it die if i don't have an answer.

 

[penvzila]

definition of clipping

 

[grinch]

buy this album and find out

 

[Gobd]

Quote:

Originally posted by penvzila definition of clipping

"to cut, snip, or trim with or as if with scissors or shears, esp. in order to shorten or remove a part" I was hoping for a slightly better definition then that along with answers to my other two questions, but thanks a lot for wasting my time and your time with that great post.

 

[Andrew Pielet]

Classy response Gobd-

 

[Gobd]

*bump* I'll give this thread one last bump later tonight and then let the thread die assuming that clipping distortion does absolutely nothing and that there is no way to make MP3's stop clipping.

 

[OriginalReaper]

Clipping is basically the "Snap crackle and pop" of bad recordings or compression.

Zwan is crappily recorded
Some MP3s have really crappy compression

 

[Gobd]

So if my MP3's in question do clip according to the MAD WinAmp plugin but i hear no "snap crackle and pop" is it really that bad the they clip at all?

Is there any way to make it so my MP3's do not clip anymore? I don't want to re-rip and re-encode them though.

 

[penvzila]

Quote:

Originally posted by Gobd "to cut, snip, or trim with or as if with scissors or shears, esp. in order to shorten or remove a part" I was hoping for a slightly better definition then that along with answers to my other two questions, but thanks a lot for wasting my time and your time with that great post.

I meant search for something like clipping and mp3 or audio clipping dumbass. I can't beleive it's harder for you to use google and find your answer in 3 minutes than to post it in the music section of a headphone forum and make others do you work for you.

EDIT: (in case you're a total n00b, much apologies for the rudeness, but somehow i don't think so)

 

[hero zero]

there are a lot of reasons for clipping...
it could be the quality of the recording [the CD, etc]...or digital errors on your CD

...or it could be your source [some cd players have crappy digital to analogue [D to A] converters that clip very easily..

when making mp3's, there are two stages.....first, you rip from CD to WAV format...then, you encode the wav to mp3....a lot of clipping may come from the ripping process, especially if you rip at too fast a speed, or you tie up your system by running all sorts of programs while ripping...it could also be the program you're using....EAC seems to be the most accurate program for extracting audio right now....I've never had any problems with it...

 

[hero zero]

the next step from extracting a WAV from CDA is compressing it and ecoding it into an mp3...it's important to get a good encoder, otherwise sound quality will suffer....LAME and Fraunhofer seem to be the best....I hear that Xing [Audiocatalyst] has got a serious problem with high frequencies, turning them into garbage...so make sure you get a good decoder, and give your system enough resources to encode mp3's without any problems..

next, is your mp3 player......winamp and foobar2000 have pretty good mp3 decoders......however, just because you have a good mp3 software player doesn't mean that there will be no clipping.....your system needs enough resources to play mp3's without clipping...you might notice that whenever you surf the net or do some other operations that require a lot of memory and CPU time, sound quality will suffer and you'll hear a lot of clipping.....increasing the buffer size for the mp3 decoder can help solve this problem, but may make things slower on your computer.....

anyway...that's all the help I can give...if that's any...hope that works!