PlanetZ forums - scopeusers.com

Hi all

Can one convert a 24-bit wav file directly to mp3? Or does it need to be dithered down to 16 bits first?

If it's possible, might there be a difference in quality between creating an mp3 file using one method or the other?

TIA,

Royston

I am not shure if you can, but my guess is, that you would be better of spending the Bytes on higher frequency compression.

You can export directly in mp3, provided you insert dithering. mp3 is usually a 16bit compressed file, so do as it was a common wave export.

Somebody applies different mastering plugins for mp3, to compensate loss of data in the extremes, but regarding dithering nothing changes.