> have become jumbled somewhere between brain and keyboard. I will try again ;)
I have 2 mp3s I want to join them I don't want to convert them to wav I tried catting which doesn't work (it cant hurt to try) To sum it all up I am looking for program that joins mp3s that runs on linux and that can be used non-interactivity (from the command line). On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 14:00, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:30:46 +1300 > Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have 2 mp3s that I want to join. The first is only a few seconds in > > length, the other is a few minutes in length and is VBR (Variable bit > > rate) encoded . > > > > Do you know of any command line tools that can do this. I dont want to > > first convert them to wav because re-encoding is luckily to decrease > > the Doing a cat 2.mp3 >> 1.mp3 does not work. > > > sorry that does not make much sense. > > cat'ing the two files together will not work because each file has a > header, and you cannot just plomk two files together with the second header > in the middle. Also the different bit rates (ie one vbr, the other not) > might also cause problems. > > There are plenty of wav joining tools, so converting back to wav, > joining, and then re-encoding seems like an option. You have dismissed > that, probably for good reason, but unfortunately your reasons seem to > > You coud try finding out what the mp3 format says about headers, strip > the header off both files to leave the plain encoded file, cat them together > and write a new header at the start of the file (actually probably the > other way round, make the header and then cat in the two files after the > header) > > > > > > Google hasn't turned up much except windoze shareware. > > > > Cheers > > Paul > > > > -- > > > > .''`. Paul William > > : :' : Debian admin and user > > `. `'` > > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system > > > > -- > Nick Rout > Barrister & Solicitor > Christchurch, NZ > Ph +64 3 3798966 > Fax + 64 3 3798853 > http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- .''`. Paul William : :' : Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system
