[nflug] Splitting large mp3 files

[Cyber Source]

It's in the repos as mp3splt (dont ask me why). This is where apt-cache 
search as I explained comes in real handy.
It's under edit/preferences/import/export. You must not have poked 
around too hard because it's pretty obvious in the preferences.

Joe wrote:
> I did the uncommenting and adding repositories thing some time ago and I
> still don't find mp3split, so I still need to know what repo it's in so
> I can figure out why.
>
> How do I tell audacity where lame is?  Lame is installed and working.
>
> Joe
>
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>   
>> I would imagine that kbuntu would have the same repos as ubuntu. Edit
>> /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment any repos that might be commented.
>> Then run "apt-get update", then "apt-get install mp3split". You can
>> also search the repos by "apt-cache search words words" and this will
>> find packages based on words, words. You can also limit this to would
>> only be in the names with the optional "--names-only".
>> Tell audacity where lame is, and then choose mp3 as an export type,
>> browse through your options, gotta poke around a bit.
>>
>> Joe wrote:
>>     
>>> 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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