Doesn't 'audacity' concatenate mp3 files?
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 09:46:48PM +0300, the unit calling itself Peter Philipp
wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:41:43PM +0300, Peter Philipp wrote:
> > license for your own programs. Now all I gotta do is bang out my program
> > based on this info. :-)
>
> Just a followup on this, I did bang out this program and have been spending
> the greater part of the day re-concatenating my old mp3 clips. Remember my
> original need for this, I disconnect/reconnect my pppoe every minute. This
> gives me a new IP every minute. Since there is an overlap on the MP3
> streaming server I'm able to concatenate the pieces together based on a
> series of checksums that are part of the MP3 format. If you would like
> to see my program you can download it from
>
> https://ssl-id.de/centroid.eu/peter/merge-mp3-clips.c
>
> [checksum: MD5 (src/misc/merge-mp3-clips.c) =
> 9281305ab48233aa86d2df3c184b0b93 ]
>
> To make it use for your stuff it probably needs a bit of editing/hardcoding.
> I hardcoded the directories and the files have the format "ckln.`date +"%s"`".
>
> The listening of this is a pleasure again without skips, repeats and
> screeches.
>
> This program can also be used for groups on the Internet. Say you want to
> protect your identity from MP3 streaming vendors and have a few friends on
> the Internet you can all download a minute of listening at different offsets
> in time (crontabbed perhaps?) and then change your IP. During the download
> of the stream you don't do any network activity, that way noone can
> correlate your IP to any other service on the Internet (prior to the download
> you also change IP). At the end of each download the MP3 clip is uploaded
> to a central server or on a P2P network and re-assembled with similar
> programs such as this for your uninterupted listening pleasure.
>
> This pretty well protects your privacy globally and noone can be sure who
> is listening into a certain program for a long time, noone can proove that
> you are interested in a certain topic/discussion (say if someone talks about
> coups, rebellions, dissent), all they'll be able to tell is that someone
> listened for a minute and then had enough (hardly incriminating them in
> orwellian societies/states).
>
> Have fun!
>
> -peter
>
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