Somebody scribbled about [expert] Alternatives to editing mp3/ogg files in Audacity? >I regualrily download streaming-mp3 files with XMMS. And I want to clean > them up with Audacity, but above about 20Mb it crashes while loading > the file. For the record my machine is a AMD 2100+ with 512 Mb of RAM > and about 2Gb free under /home.
70+ meg mp3 files? I might have some that big. Much of my hour-length stuff are OTR mp3 which don't require a whole lot of extra space - perhaps 10-15 megs vbr for much of them. It would seem that the trick is to be sure that the whole uncompresssed file (plus edits) is going to fit in memory. >Any ideas on how to edit them? Console would be fine, too, just so long > as I have an indexing method to find the start and stop positions. Depends on what you want to do. If you can export them first as wav, you can do some editing with sox. If you know (roughly) the start and end points, factor in the # of samples and size you can try to do some low level splicing with 'dd'. But that works best with headerless sound files. It's much easier of course to have a visual guide though. Audacity does do a good job overall - except that it crashes here too. I tried noise removal on a part of a sample mp3 and managed to crash it, but I don't think memory was an issue. Also the version I have here (1.1.3 from textar) seems a lot more buggy than the older version I had before I had my wierd system crash a few weeks ago. I'm getting a lot of assert messages on the starting console, for instance, and much is missing, like time marks and such. Audacity also needs *LOTS* of disk space if you save something as a Project rather than exporting to WAV or MP3 formats. And I still notice that exporting to MP3 makes the resulting MP3 double-speed. >Rob -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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