Yeah, there is a silence detection feature. The problem is whether you can
set it to not have too many different tracks created.
I'm not sure I have the latest version of Goldwav, but I suspect the
following procedure still works in versions beyond my 5.52.
1. Open the mp3 file you want to split.
2. Press alt-e for the edit menu, and then you arrow to the cue points
submenu.
3. On the edit cue points submenu, select AutoCue.
4. This will bring up a multi-tab control. There are two tabs, one is mark
silences and the other is spacing. I can't get Jaws to move there by the
traditional method, so if you are on the spacing tab, you'd need to use the
Jaws cursor and left-click the mark silences tab.
5. Now, with the proper tab in focus, you can set the noise threshhold and
length of silence. The threshhold default is -40DB that is minus 40DB. If
you have a file with a bit more background noise, then you may need to
increase the value to -30DB or so.
6. Set the length of the silence for what you need. If you for example had
recorded a record album, you might have 3 seconds between songs. Other
files you may have shorter silences. You may need to experiment with this
setting. If you get too many cue points, you may need to lower the
threshhold or increase the length of the silent period.
7. When you hit auto-cue, it will generate the cue points in that file. It
will then list them.
If you are satisfied, you can go back into the cue points submenu and hit
the Split File button. If you need to change the settings because the
results weren't satisfactory, remember to hit the option to delete all your
existing cue points first, because AutoCue will preserve already-existing
cue points normally.
Steve
Lansing, MI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrin Porter" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MP3 splitter?
Mo,
No. If you simply use the automatic splitter, it will create X number of
files of the exact length you specify and one smaller file containing the
remainder. To the best of my knowledge, there is no silence detection
feature. But, as I said, doing it manually is as simple as listening for
a moment of silence and pressing ctrl-Q to drop a Que point.
Darrin
Darrin Porter
Senior Technical Engineer
United Ocean Services, L.L.C.
601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230
Tampa, Florida 33602
(813) 209-4247 (office)
(813) 744-0011 (cellular phone)
(813) 242-4849 (fax)
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mobeen Iqbal
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 1:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MP3 splitter?
Hi Darrin.
Thanks for your help. If i use the automatically split option, is there
any way of goldwave automatically detecting pauses and splitting based
on when there is a pause? or would i have to use the manual procedure
you described?
Mo.
Darrin Porter wrote:
Mo,
This could easily and quickly be done with GoldWave. Goldwave will
either automatically split the file into segments whose lengths you
specify (regardless of what's happening at the split point) or you can
manually go in and drop que points where you want the file split. This
is pretty quick and easy since you can jump to any part of the file
quickly. For example, if you wanted the file split up into roughly
thirty minute segments, you could simply jumt to, say, 29 minutes and
thirty seconds and start listening, dropping your que point during a
pause or quiet part of the file. Then repeate at 59:30, 1:29:30, etc.
I did this for a two and a half hour lecture series I recorded and
managed to get the entire lecture split into approximately 5 minute
segments in somewhat less than an hour. Another nice feature of GoldWave
is that you can name your que points and tell the program to split the
file at the que points and use the que point names as the split file
names.
Darrin Porter
Senior Technical Engineer
United Ocean Services, L.L.C.
601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230
Tampa, Florida 33602
(813) 209-4247 (office)
(813) 744-0011 (cellular phone)
(813) 242-4849 (fax)
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mobeen Iqbal
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [JAWS-Users] MP3 splitter?
Hi All.
I'm looking for a program that will convert a long MP3 file, say 8 hours
in to manageable segments. Would goldwave do this? I want something
ideally that will detect pauses and split based on when a pause occurs
so for example if i'm converting it in to half hour sections and there's
a pause after 30 minutes and 3 seconds, it'll split where the pause is
and not in the middle of a word. does anything like this exist and
that's accessible? I don't mind using the jaws curser.
Best,
Mo.
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