On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:57:19 +1200 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 /. sullied only by the normal tossers who inhabit such space... FWIW the program pointed to by Chris S http://mp3splt.sf.net seems good, a small download, took a 2 minutes if that to download and compile. You can say to it to cut into arbitrary time lengths, and cut at the nearest quiet spot. > > 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. > > > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
