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Old 2022-12-06, 12:01 PM
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Re: iPhone .M4A>WAV Archiving Advice

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Originally Posted by co9ol View Post
Audacity is where it's at. If this was me I'd fade in and out at the cut marks to make it less jarring. Then combine them into one long audio file, set Audacity to CDDA frames and have it split and export Flac level 8. If you set it to CDDA frames it'll cut the tracks without sector-boundary errors.

PS don't mess with fake Stereo, it almost always sounds worse and can have some very strange phasing issues it ever played back in mono.
The SHEPPi Spatial Enhancer plugin is pretty good at enhancing a stereo field without destroying the mono compatibility. I wouldn't say that it gives a studio stereo separation but it can give an audience recording some nice space for headphone listening. Try it before you decide...

http://dallashodgson.info/articles/OpenAmbienceProject/
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/she...bience_project

My tip for file splitting is to split files only on whole seconds - no fractions. It might be a little less audibly precise but it avoids the whole sector boundary issue.
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