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Mp3 split program that allows for multiple cut-points before execution?
ewemoa:
I tried Ampa's suggestion (mp3DirectCut) and instructions and they seemed to work :Thmbsup:
Thanks Ampa!
P.S. In my testing I found that leaving a bit more silence than I expected near the splits seemed to work better -- at least in one case, I got the sense that there was some lost audio.
f0dder:
P.S. In my testing I found that leaving a bit more silence than I expected near the splits seemed to work better -- at least in one case, I got the sense that there was some lost audio.-ewemoa (April 12, 2011, 08:38 PM)
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Could easily be the case, since mp3directCut avoids re-encoding to MP3 - that does mean it can't work on millisecond intervals, but has to work at the MP3 frame size instead.
ewemoa:
P.S. In my testing I found that leaving a bit more silence than I expected near the splits seemed to work better -- at least in one case, I got the sense that there was some lost audio.-ewemoa (April 12, 2011, 08:38 PM)
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Could easily be the case, since mp3directCut avoids re-encoding to MP3 - that does mean it can't work on millisecond intervals, but has to work at the MP3 frame size instead.
-f0dder (April 12, 2011, 10:42 PM)
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Thanks for the remarks.
Inspired by them, I did some searching and found the following at a Wikipedia page for mp3DirectCut:
Edit positions in the file can only be placed at the start of an MP3 frame (of which there are typically about 38 per second).
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The documentation warns that navigating a song does not, in all cases, land on the start of an MP3 frame. The documentation does not guarantee correct results in all cases.
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Curt:
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-Curt (July 27, 2010, 07:49 PM)
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ewemoa:
I tried out the "Pause Detection" functionality -- I ended up adding and removing some points but it seemed worth using.
Also tried out the following bit mentioned in the FAQ:
I miss the "Append all/selection to..." save option!
It's not longer necessarry since mp3DirectCut has virtual Cut, Copy & Paste. Open a second instance of the program where you copy the part you want to append. Then paste the selection the end of the other track. "Save all..." creates the combined file. You can also paste multiple selections. Before saving, the program does not copy real audio data but only references. So you must keep every file until you saved the result file.
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[Minor point: in 2.13, I didn't find a "Save all..." -- found a "Save complete audio..." item that seemed appropriate though.]
mp3DirectCut's UI sure feels unusual :huh: I'm not sure I'll remember how to use it on a subsequent occasion...
After I got through with splitting, I found:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=split
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Splitting_recordings_into_separate_tracks
I think I'd remember what to do with Audacity, but I imagine it would take a fair bit longer to finish because of the exporting to mp3...
@ f0dder:
What are the sorts of things you don't like about Audacity? I'm not a huge fan or anything, FWIW...
@ Curt:
Didn't know about Code-it Software. Thanks.
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