Actually, the same question was asked on slashdot yesterday.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/16/ 1845204&tid=185&tid=4&tid=218
The answer is basically that you can chop an mp3 file anywhere - you may miss a frame or two but you'd probably never notice. On the other hand, there are loads of programs to chop them properly, including programmatically in the way you want ...
perl -MMP3::Splitter -e 'mp3_split($_,{},[ rand(64800), 30 ], ...) for @ARGV' filename.mp3
will do what the /. article asked for, a series of random chunks. Dump the rand(64800),30 for a different invocation of mp3_split and you'll be in business.
-jim
On Aug 17, 2004, at 11:21 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
I have some large mp3 files (audio books) that I want to divide into a series smaller mp3's, to make it easier to move around in the story, eg the cd player will switch easily from one file to the next, but fast forwarding through a 8 hour mp3 is tedious at best.
can anyone tell me off the top of their head if there is a suitable program to chop them up into, say, 15 minute consecutively numbered files.
