[nflug] Splitting large mp3 files

[Joe]

mp3split:
What repository is it in?  My system doesn't find it - and when I
downloaded a deb from the web, it couldn't find libmp3split.

audacity:
I just tried that and it wants to export as a wav file.  Do I have to do
that and then run each segment through lame?

Thanks.
  Joe

Cyber Source wrote:
> 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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