[nflug] Splitting large mp3 files

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Fri Dec 26 09:35:06 EST 2008


sudo apt-get install mp3split.
in audacity, select your time section, then export selection, repeat as 
necessary.

Joshua Johnson wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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