Export to MP3

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Shadowcaster
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16 May 2017

Now that the patents on the MP3 file format have expired may we please have an 'Export to Mp3' option? We've been asking for yeeeeeeeears...


https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm ... s/mp3.html

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16 May 2017

I fail to understand how that will result in an Mp3 file.

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16 May 2017

If lossy format export is added to Reason, I'd love to have an option to export both a WAV and an MP3 together, so I have a compressed version for sharing demos online and still get to keep a lossless version for my own archives, without any extra steps.
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esselfortium wrote:If lossy format export is added to Reason, I'd love to have an option to export both a WAV and an MP3 together, so I have a compressed version for sharing demos online and still get to keep a lossless version for my own archives, without any extra steps.
Yeah and 'export everything' button would be cool.
It could spit our your final mix, channels and busses, normalised channels, upload to Allihoopa, convert to mp3, zip for sharing and convert the score to sheet music.
It would free up more time for drinking coffee.
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pushedbutton wrote:
esselfortium wrote:If lossy format export is added to Reason, I'd love to have an option to export both a WAV and an MP3 together, so I have a compressed version for sharing demos online and still get to keep a lossless version for my own archives, without any extra steps.
Yeah and 'export everything' button would be cool.
It could spit our your final mix, channels and busses, normalised channels, upload to Allihoopa, convert to mp3, zip for sharing and convert the score to sheet music.
It would free up more time for drinking coffee.
To be honest, a macro system for scripting common repetitive tasks like that would be amazing in Reason. We've all got different procedures we use on a regular basis, so while specific built-in actions for them would be overkill, scripting would simultaneously solve a lot of different problems for a lot of different people.
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fieldframe
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16 May 2017

I think what might work best in this case is to take a page from how some design apps handle exporting. In Affinity Designer and Sketch, you can create a little list of formats you want to export to, and check/uncheck them when you go to export.

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17 May 2017

Yep. Same in Capture One Pro - you create a custom list of export "recipes" where you set the file format, any resizing, quality, etc. When it comes to export, you just check the one(s) you want.
It means you can have multiple variations on - for example - JPEG; full-size, 1920px wide at 70% quality for web, etc.
I think it's a great system.

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18 May 2017

I would love to be able to export to MP3 like mentioned before to be able to share compressed versions online and keep a WAV lossless version for my records! Having to switch to another program just to make a compressed version seems pointless when it would be so easy to just add that in to reason!
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Shadowcaster wrote:I fail to understand how that will result in an Mp3 file.
AAC ... far superior. I fail to understand why people still use mp3 :D
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18 May 2017

theshoemaker wrote:
Shadowcaster wrote:I fail to understand how that will result in an Mp3 file.
AAC ... far superior. I fail to understand why people still use mp3 :D
I agree other better formats are more important
MP3 is dying as it should it's crap for today's standards against the other formats .

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25 Aug 2017

Shadowcaster wrote:Now that the patents on the MP3 file format have expired may we please have an 'Export to Mp3' option? We've been asking for yeeeeeeeears...


https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm ... s/mp3.html
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25 Aug 2017

Why add a dying format now? (OK it will still be around for a few years but there are a lot better formats out there)..

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25 Aug 2017

Audacity, it takes like 4 seconds :)

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25 Aug 2017

VLC is another free option.
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25 Aug 2017

Carly(Poohbear) wrote:
25 Aug 2017
Why add a dying format now? (OK it will still be around for a few years but there are a lot better formats out there)..
It's hardly a dying format.
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Gorgon wrote:
25 Aug 2017
Carly(Poohbear) wrote:
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Why add a dying format now? (OK it will still be around for a few years but there are a lot better formats out there)..
It's hardly a dying format.
Of course it is, it's been dying for years, the last cheap (£20) Media player I brought supports 48K 16 bit files, people are waking up to how shit MP3 sound quality really is and now with memory being so cheap it won't long...

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27 Aug 2017

People saying that mp3 is dying are probably working for Fraunhofer and pissed off that they don't get license fees anymore. :)

With a good quality encoder it sounds excellent and there's no denying that it's the one format that is supported everywhere.

Please add it as an export option in Reason.

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PeterP wrote:
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People saying that mp3 is dying are probably working for Fraunhofer and pissed off that they don't get license fees anymore. :)

With a good quality encoder it sounds excellent and there's no denying that it's the one format that is supported everywhere.

Please add it as an export option in Reason.
Yeah, and while you are at it add support for betamax and VHS.... LOL

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Carly(Poohbear) wrote:
26 Aug 2017
Of course it is, it's been dying for years, the last cheap (£20) Media player I brought supports 48K 16 bit files, people are waking up to how shit MP3 sound quality really is and now with memory being so cheap it won't long...
Lol. Yeah, just like ZIP is a dying format. Anyway, you can't hear the difference between een high quality mp3 and a wav file and you know it.
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Gorgon wrote:
27 Aug 2017
Carly(Poohbear) wrote:
26 Aug 2017
Of course it is, it's been dying for years, the last cheap (£20) Media player I brought supports 48K 16 bit files, people are waking up to how shit MP3 sound quality really is and now with memory being so cheap it won't long...
Lol. Yeah, just like ZIP is a dying format. Anyway, you can't hear the difference between een high quality mp3 and a wav file and you know it.
Far from it, if you can't hear the difference, then stick with MP3, but with my bad ears I sure can..

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27 Aug 2017

fieldframe wrote:I think what might work best in this case is to take a page from how some design apps handle exporting. In Affinity Designer and Sketch, you can create a little list of formats you want to export to, and check/uncheck them when you go to export.
So, basically how Logic works?
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Carly(Poohbear) wrote:
27 Aug 2017
Gorgon wrote:
27 Aug 2017


Lol. Yeah, just like ZIP is a dying format. Anyway, you can't hear the difference between een high quality mp3 and a wav file and you know it.
Far from it, if you can't hear the difference, then stick with MP3, but with my bad ears I sure can..
So you obviously wouldn't mind to do a blind MP3/WAV test?
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29 Aug 2017

AAC & Wav/flac where it's at for SQ my dude.
192kbps aac = 320kbps mp3.
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16 Sep 2017

Export to MP3, definitely!

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