Has Promise, but Im deleting it

I usually use an audio editor to merge multiple files together. Ive been doing that for 15 years and although it is tedious, it is reliable and precise and I can check the results as I go. I was delighted to find this app as it seemed like it could be a real timesaver.

So, I took a set of fourteen mono mp3s that had been ripped at 16K sampling rate from an audiobook and fed it to the app. I expected it to detect the current encoding and provide settings to match. But it simply used app defaults. When I ran it it upsampled the files, turning a set of 400M files into a single 570M file, a 40% increase in size. It would be much nicer if I knew that it could default to the same input settings instead of uselessly upsampling, which is just a waste of space and time.

Speaking of time, it took a bit over 20 mintues to join the files, which is much slower that I could do by hand using an audio editor. It seemed to lightly load my multiprocessor MBP, so I image there is potential for many speed improvements and for using multiple CPUs at once.

So, for joining files, this is OK for me as sometimes I dont mind it taking so long and being so inefficient since I dont have to work, but if I was in a hurry and was concerned for the size of the joined file, Id do the work by hand. I hope the app imrpoves so I can come back and give it a better rating.

UPDATE: I tried joining a number of mp3s again using this tool, and the results were not useful. I noticed it doesnt set the tags on the resulting file. So it turns out I can do everything by hand quicker, and get a better result. The point of a program like this, it seems to me, should be to make life easier and do the tedious things for me.

I suggest passing on this one, Im going to delete it and hide the entry in my purshases tab.

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