On 02/01/2016 23:42, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-01-02, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have quite a few large audio rip files that need to be split up >> into their respective tracks. > [...] >> I very seldom work with audio files directly, so I'm mostly clueless >> in this area and it's easier to ask folks who do this often what >> packages out there are good at it. > > I have only done it a few times, but I used audacity. It also allowed > me to mix the two channels down to one (it was an audio book, and > mixing the two channles reduced the tape hiss a little).
Good to know, I'll give is a try > >> Bonus points for packages that use musicbrainz or similar > > Not sure how an an audio editor would use something like that. After > you use something like audacity (or just plain sox commands) to split > the file into tracks, you'll have to use a separate program to set the > MP3 tags. I'm thinking that musicbrainz knows the tracks and how long they are. If I supply the exact correct release, and editor could do the splitting at the correct point (so I don't have to guess) If the editor can't update the metadata, then beets can. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
