Originally Posted By: mrgeeze
edshaw,

What advantage does the NCH mp3 conversion have over simply exporting the mp3 file directly from biab?

thanks


Personally, I have never exported anything other than waves from BB/RB.

I use NCH for a few reasons. The assumption that the song is in a finished wave format. I use NCH to do the following things.

1. I use Normalize to bump the levels a bit. This is usually my last step before I convert to MP3. This is the easy way to get consistently good levels of audio.
2. I trim the silence at the start and the end. This shortens the playing length a bit. No listening to silence or count in.
3. I add 500ms of silence at the start. Half a second. So you have a very slight pause when you hit play before the music starts.
4. I use it to convert to MP3. It allows me to select the bit rate based on the website platform requirements. Some have a 10MB max and if I use my preferred 320kbs rate, it's over the 10MB limit so I can downsize the bit rate to get it under the max limit.
5. It has a fairly nice and convenient music player.
6. It has a number of other features... even in the free limited version that I rarely ever use but have if it's needed.

You can find my music at:
www.herbhartley.com
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