Avoiding audio quality-loss?

Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:54 am by Manhattan_Guy

Everyone ever having saved music in the format FL uses (i.e. MP3 compression, Stereo, 65 kBit/s and 24 kHz) must have noticed there is a severy loss of quality. The music suddenly sounds like listened to through a wall. Yet the guys at DA didn't seem to have this quality loss when they saved their music. The same, by the way, applies to voice acting files, which is even more severe.

I could, of cource, save as PCM and try to find an ideal balance between file size and quality, yet that would still make all my audio files several times larger than when using the vanilla FL format.

So, is there any known way to export to Freelancer's natural audio format without this terrible quality loss?

Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:41 am by ViperKnight

Try using better quality Audio editting software. Goldwave is usually pretty good.

Another thing to try is convert it to 64kbps MP3 but at 44khz. That should make a big difference

Apart from that, just bump up the MP3 bitrate (FL will use anything that Windows Media Player supports since it uses the same codecs). 128kbps should be good enough.

Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:56 am by Cold_Void

eliminating unnecessary stereo channels can compensate for the size inflation when doubling the sample rate

i use Audacity - lots of filter options etc and its shareware

Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:24 pm by Manhattan_Guy

I'm currently using WavePad after that was recommended to me. And when using this tool, (as well as when using the standard Windows audio recorder, which happens to be using the exact same method to save it's files) there is no format like 64kbps. What I used is the upper limit.

So I'll definitely see that I get my hands on the tools you said you used, to compare.

EDIT: Ah, by the way, thanks for your recent mail, Cold_Void.

Edited by - Manhattan_Guy on 8/19/2006 4:24:53 PM

Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:34 pm by Manhattan_Guy

I've taken a look at Audicity and found out that either I am too dump to cope with the simplest of tools or this is one hell of a bad program. I didn't even find out how to change the format the tool saves its wavs in, let alone how to save it with MP3 compression and a certain data rate.

I'll look at GoldWave next. From what I've heard, that program's supposed to be pretty good.

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