[nflug] Splitting large mp3 files

[Joshua Johnson]

mp3split looks like the way to go. Maybe you can install it from source?

Other than that the only things I can think of are audacity (which you
already tried) and ardour. Ardour I am positive can do it but it is probably
more cumbersome and complicated than audacity for this task.

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:

> I have an audio version of a book in the form of one 11+ hour mp3 file.
> This file is difficult to manage and my stand-alone player gives up
> after about 2 hours.
>
> I'd like to break the file into one hour chunks.  How do I do that?
>
> I tried loading it into audacity (which took 15 minutes).  I figured I
> could select one section at a time and save it to its own file.  I think
> I was able to select a section, but I couldn't find any "Save selection
> to file" option.
>
> Apparently, kubuntu hardy doesn't come with an audacity documentation
> package,
> so the help function doesn't work.  I'm going to try to find it on the web.
>
> I found a utility called mp3split, but could not find a deb that would
> install (found one for it, but not for its library) and could not
> compile it from source.
>
> Normally, I would just load the whole thing, chop it down to one section
> and save as. In this case though, that would take around 3 hours just
> for repeated loading of the original file.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Joe
>
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