An mp3 question

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:06 pm

Right, suppose i have this 3.5 hour long mp3, and i want to cut it up in different bits... how would i go about it?

I mean, is there some sort of little freeware program out there i could use...?

Post by **R00k** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:08 pm

Man, that's one long legitimately purchased sample of music right there!

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:09 pm

It's a live set, which makes it legal!
I think.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:10 pm

Audacity is what you need.

Post by **brisk** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:10 pm

I wouldn't bother. If its 3.5 hours, I assume its mixed, so cutting it up will just leave gaps between tracks.

The better solution is to create a cuesheet with track markers. Assuming you use winamp to play your media, you can download mp3cue from inter-land. Foobar2000 has built-in cuesheet support.

Post by **hax103** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:15 pm

hey

a freeware tool is called mp3splitter

http://www.codevisions.de/

works pretty well for me.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:18 pm

Ryoki wrote:It's a live set, which makes it legal!
I think.

Well yea, depends on the band mostly. Some of them don't mind people recording their shows.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:19 pm

R00k wrote:
Ryoki wrote:It's a live set, which makes it legal!
I think.
Well yea, depends on the band mostly. Some of them don't mind people recording their shows.

unfortunately most of those recordings are beyond terrible.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:31 pm

I knew you were going to say that.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:34 pm

R00k wrote:I knew you were going to say that.

well, i didn't mean for me really, but even for someone that doesn't care much about audio, some of these live bootlegs are laughable at best. i don't want to hear people talking/laughing/shouting over the music itself.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:36 pm

take a listen to some of these .mp3's from the Bootleg Directory. a lot are complete garbage.

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:54 am

brisk wrote:I wouldn't bother. If its 3.5 hours, I assume its mixed, so cutting it up will just leave gaps between tracks.

you burn some crappy cds then

and if you dont, something might be wrong with your player. my winamp changes tracks seamlessly.
itunes, however, does not, and leaves like 0.2 secs of silence between tracks. which is gay

Post by **Ryoki** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:59 am

I wasn't able to figure it out yesterday due to laziness, a football match on the telly and software non collaboration (Audacity crashed on me, though i liked the looks of the thing) but i'm gonna be stubborn and try again tonight.

Post by **glossy** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:05 am

goldwave will do this, easy as.

Post by **brisk** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:18 am

MKJ wrote:
brisk wrote:I wouldn't bother. If its 3.5 hours, I assume its mixed, so cutting it up will just leave gaps between tracks.
you burn some crappy cds then
and if you dont, something might be wrong with your player. my winamp changes tracks seamlessly.
itunes, however, does not, and leaves like 0.2 secs of silence between tracks. which is gay

Its a fault of MP3 as a codec, not my software or hardware. There is always a slight gap at the start of any MP3 track, and although winamp and a few others have gapless plugins which go someway to eliminating it, its still not perfect. If you have mixed albums as MP3 on your computer, its always best to use the MP3/CUE system instead. That way, you can burn them to CD without gaps, and have them play properly on your computer.

Post by **Geebs** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:22 am

If you tried to play two MP3s seamlessly without using the fadein/fadeout trick, you'd get the famous Digital Audio Pop.

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:23 am

how odd. millions of years ago, when i was using a 2 speed cd burner on a mac, Toast would burn seamlessly just fine?
oh well. semen