[nflug] Splitting large mp3 files

[Joe]

There's a case the script doesn't handle.  If anyone wants the new
version, let me know.

Joe

Joe wrote:
> I couldn't get that to work.  It wanted -vo instead of -o, didn't
> recognize -tt, etc.   But, I did finally get mp3splt to work with the
> following shell script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ## Audiobook splitter
>
> ## Usage is audiobooksplit [-t minutes-per-part] file.mp3
>
> NAME=$(basename $"0")
> USAGE="Usage is $NAME [-t minutes-per-part] file.mp3"
>
> LENGTH=60
> if [ "$1" == "-t" ]
> then
>   shift
>   LENGTH=$1
>   shift
> fi
>
> if (( LENGTH < 1 ))
> then
>   echo $USAGE >&2
>   exit 1
> fi
>
> if [ ! -r "${1}" ]
> then
>   echo "Cannot read [$1]" >&2
>   exit 1
> fi
>
>
> IN="$1"
>
> OUT="${IN%\.mp3}"
> OUT="${OUT%\.MP3}"
> mp3splt -o "${OUT} part @n.mp3" -t ${LENGTH}.00 "${IN}"
>
> Notes:
> The -o lets you control the names given to the partial files with @n
> giving a three digit part number to make the file names unique.
>
> mp3splt does a less than stellar job of filling in the id3 tags on the
> new files, but at least it tries.
>
> Joe
>
> Corey Reichle wrote:
>   
>> Use mplayer:
>>
>> mplayer -i foo1.mp3 -o bar1.mp3 -s 00:00:00 -tt 00:10:00
>> mplayer -i foo.mp3 -o bar2.mp3 -s 00:10:00 -tt 00:10:00
>>
>> Just keep doing this, or whip up a loop to do it.  mplayer does almost
>> anything with almost any media.  You may need to tweak the command
>> line options, but read the man for it, and it's pretty well done with
>> examples.
>>
>> Dec 26, 2008 02:35:33 AM, nflug at nflug.org <mailto:nflug at nflug.org> 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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