Hi,
Richard Crowley wrote:
Au contraire! I just did it. With Audacity, one loads an MP3
file, edits same and then "Exports" it back to Either an MP3 file
or a WAV file! It probably does silently convert to RAW in order
to edit, but the user has no inkling of it.
NO, You DECODED the MP3 to WAV (or its internal equivalent) .
You may not have known that you did that because the application
did it automatically (and surreptitiously) behind the scenes. Then,
you re-encoded it back to MP3 (perhaps automatically without being
asked). But this is exactly what the OP was asking to NOT do.
Thanks, I thought I was talking to a brick wall
Ciao
AK