batch adding silence to MP3 files

[yken]

i want to add 2 sec silence to beginning and to end of every Mp3 i have. is there any software to do this with batch method?

[kazuyette]

If you want to burn them on a cd, you only have to use the Track At Once mode instead of using the Disk At Once method.

I hope that'll help mate .

[yken]

i wont burn cds,but found solution .Sony Sound forge can do what i want.İ know there are several utilites to insert silince but i wanted was applying this to

hundreds of mp3 files at once.Sound Forge can do this

[Borbus]

This is a bad idea. If you re-encode your MP3s then they will be lower quality than they were before. If you want a gap between each song then you should find a way to add time between songs when you play them. Making a playlist with a 4 second silence clip between every song would work.

[yken]

why reencoded file quality chages?

is there any way/software to insert silence without re-encoding?

These files are special not music files so i have to insert the silences to the files themselves

[FreqFace]

Quick question, why would you need to do this? Especially when there are non-destructive methods as people have already suggested.

And when you re-encode a lossy file (ie. mp3, usually called transcoding) it will make the quality considerably worse because it's compressing an already compressed file. Nobody wants a transcoded music file unless it's lossless. However, I'm sure there are methods to do what you want without transcoding, though I'm not certain.

Edited August 12, 2008 by FreqFace

[yken]

theye are speech files not music files