Re: [linux-audio-dev] splicing mp3s, graphically

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] splicing mp3s, graphically
From: Robert Jonsson (ddskrjo_AT_dataductus.se)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 11:03:47 EEST


Kai Vehmanen wrote:

> I can't resist the temptation... :)

:)

>
> >> Lets say you have a few 70MB mp3s that are about an hour or so
> >> long,and you want to extract a song that's in the middle of this
>
> If you don't want to deal with mpg123 and frame offsets, you
> can do this with ecasound (uses mpg123 and lame):
>
> ecasound -i somefile.mp3 -y:120.5 -o newfile.mp3 -tl:60
>
> This splices out 120.50sec -> 180.50sec to a new file.
> And of course, the same works with all other file formats
> supported by ecasound.

Just for the record, ecasound transforms the mp3 file to a raw format in between
and then reencodes it at the end, right?
Which means that for quality reasons this isn't the best alternative,
degradation will probably occur.

>
>
> > There is a hackish utility at http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Mpcut/
> > which lets you graphically cut out peices of a song.
>
> And also, you can load an mp3 file into ecawave (a graphical
> sound file editor), and then just mark-copy-n-paste.
>

/R


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