it's your choice if you want to save to a lossless or lossy format after editing. we need to be able to save the edited file. The only reason we are even talking about re-encoding them is because you want to edit the mp2's. as long as you save to a lossless format, no quality is lost *unless you do something funky when editing them or save to a lower sampling rate of something. The only place you lose quality is when you re-save to a lossy format. (size would be nearly identical to your original mp2) If you save as a high bitrate mp3 or mp2 the quality might go down to a 6 or a 7. (wavs are about 7-8x larger than your original mp2, lossless like flac would be about 3-4 times larger than your original mp2) If you save as a wav or to a lossless audio file, your files will still be of identical quality. You must decompress them which will not affect the quality what-so-ever, so they are still identical and an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10. Now you can leave them that way and they will still be an 8 (and still be relatively small). Lets say that the quality of your mp2 files are an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10.
So, if you agree that i won't get any improvements in sound quality by decompressing and recompressing again, i would like to have the better quality possible in the minimum "space" possible.
But if the source is a lossy format, what's the point to encode it to a "better" audio format ? Do you know what i mean ? I mean you won't get better quality, will you ? By the way, my files bitrate range from 192 kbs to 256 kbs, depending on the radio stations. On the contrary, don't you think i'll loose some quality in the process of decoding and encoding (that's why i wanted to stick with the "original" format - MP 2)? "Space" is not the most important thing to me. wav format, will i ? I mean, since the source is MP2, a lossy format.
The problem here is that i won't get any improvement in sound quality by encoding the files to. Anyway, if i can't edit compressed audio file without decompressing it first, i'll have to do as you say (that's what i was doing, actually). I thought that it was possible to edit compressed audio file without decompressing it first. Thomseye and edDV thanks for your kind help.
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