On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Guruprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > Recently I was trying to join and split mp3 files for some purposes. > While joining the files, I tried using 'cat' for joining mp3 files and > 'mp3splt' for splitting the files. I followed > http://lyncd.com/2009/02/how-to-merge-mp3-files/ for the instructions > to join the mp3 files. > > The merging operation happened ok but the timing information attached > with the concatened file was incorrect and changing while the audio > was playing. For example if I had joined 3 audio clips into 1. The > timing information for the combined clip was correct till the first > clip part of it was playing. As soon as the second clip part started, > the timing information started to change continuously. I realize that > this is due to some data/metadata present in combined file is > incorrect and needs to be changed. There were some other solutions > involving 'ffmpeg' and other tools like the one in > http://lyncd.com/2009/02/how-to-merge-mp3-files/ but none seemed to > get the timing information correct. But when I tried out the same > thing in Windows using some tools (which were free as in free beer), > the final output files had no issues with the timing. So I guess I am > missing something while trying to do the same in my Ubuntu. Any > explanations/comments are welcome. >
Taking a wild guess. Perhaps the id3 version was wrong? Try with some id3 tag editor. I have been able to use mp3splt but I have perhaps not digged into it as deep as you obviously have. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
