On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 23:09:27 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I have quite a few large audio rip files that need to be split up into > their respective tracks. They were wrongly ripped back when and the > original CDs aren't available anymore. > > 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. > > Bonus points for packages that use musicbrainz or similar You do not mention whether you by chance have CUE or TOC files that contains time points at which the big files should be split. If yes then Flacon (media-sound/flacon) can be used to split the file according a CUE file. It has also CDDB support (even though I don't remember using it and in fact it shows an error popup when I've tried it now) or you can edit metadata manually. If you prefer command line then media-sound/shntool contains command shnsplit: $ shnsplit -f <cue_file>.cue <audio_file> For more mature metadata editing I recommend media-sound/easytag. If you do not have the CUE file then Ardour (media-sound/ardour) can be used to create it. You would have to manually mark beginning of each track and then export. (It requires Jack server so it is not a lightweight solution but I like working with it.) Also good old media-sound/gramofile should be able split files automatically, but I have no experience with it. Robert -- Róbert Čerňanský E-mail: ope...@tightmail.com Jabber: h...@jabber.sk
