Questions tagged [mp3]

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Legal way to pay for an MP3 that best supports the artist?

Been recently buying MP3s from various artists. I quite like MP3s over streaming as its at least a physical file that I have for my purchase. However, it seems as the world has moved to streaming, it's harder to find an official MP3 purchase for…
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Q: why would two mp3 files of the same song (apparently same characteristics) be wildly different in size?

I noticed I've ripped two different Arlo Guthrie CDs that I own ("Alice's Restaurant", and "The Best of Arlo Guthrie"). Rips probably done with different programs, years apart. Each had "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" on the CD, each was ripped to…
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id3tags v2.4 and advanced schema for music metadata (v.2)

Due to my lack of time and to the fact that I am not sure whether this the right place to ask such a question I will post my question & my research efforts into parts, and continue expanding it depending on the kind of feedback I will get. Part #1…
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Ripping MP3s from CDs

I have Gigabytes of MP3s that I've ripped over the years from my collection of CDs. I've always used Windows Media Player to Rip music with no problems whatsoever. However, I've recently bought a number of second-hand CDs which were (mainly)…
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