Re: [SOLVED] Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

Curt wrote:

> That's fine. Please send an exhaustive summary of your findings, as well
> as a thorough enumeration of the steps you've taken to arrive at same,
> to the Linux Debian User authorities in Washington within 10 days
> maximum from the effective closing date of your case.  Failure to do so
> can lead to penalties ranging from fines to prisons terms, or both.
> 
> Thank you for using Linux Debian User.

Thank you for the sarcasm :D

I already send the details and they approved the closing of the case :D

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[Curt]

On 2017-09-29, deloptes  wrote:
>
> Yes thanks, indeed it is using the tag for the name, so in my case I would
> write the tag before splitting and mp3splt will create the proper names.
>
> I consider this case as closed.

That's fine. Please send an exhaustive summary of your findings, as well
as a thorough enumeration of the steps you've taken to arrive at same,
to the Linux Debian User authorities in Washington within *10* days
maximum from the effective closing date of your case.  Failure to do so
can lead to penalties ranging from fines to prisons terms, or both.

Thank you for using Linux Debian User.


> Thank you all and
>
> regards
>
>


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[SOLVED] Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

Thomas Amm wrote:

> You can generate somewhat better file names from the preferences or
> -much better- you could use a tagging tool like exfalso or easytag to
> create metadata and mp3splt will do the naming from these. There's also
> an option to generate metadata (i.e. tags) from the filename but I have
> never tried that.

Yes thanks, indeed it is using the tag for the name, so in my case I would
write the tag before splitting and mp3splt will create the proper names.

I consider this case as closed.

Thank you all and

regards

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[Thomas Amm]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:05:15 +0200
deloptes  wrote:

> Thomas Amm wrote:
> 
> > Have you tried mp3split-gtk? Should do exactly that.  
> 
> I installed now mp3splt-gtk
> 
> It looks like it would do exactly what I need, but when I press the
> play button, it says "gstreamer error: Internal data stream error"
> 
> (22:26:24) Warning: No decoder available for type 'application/x-id3'.
> (22:26:24) gstreamer error: Your GStreamer installation is missing a
> plug-in.
> (22:26:24) gstreamer error: Internal data stream error.
> 
> installed the crap gstreamer1.0-plugins-good and it worked as
> expected.
> 
> The only problem left is that it does not produce the splitted file
> names from the original file.
> 
> It says "description here_part1.mp3"
> 
> I don't know if it is the file name itself is a problem. If you have
> some other nice advice, it's welcome
> 
> thank you all
> 
> regards
> 

You can generate somewhat better file names from the preferences or
-much better- you could use a tagging tool like exfalso or easytag to
create metadata and mp3splt will do the naming from these. There's also
an option to generate metadata (i.e. tags) from the filename but I have
never tried that.


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Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

Thomas Amm wrote:

> Have you tried mp3split-gtk? Should do exactly that.

I installed now mp3splt-gtk

It looks like it would do exactly what I need, but when I press the play
button, it says "gstreamer error: Internal data stream error"

(22:26:24) Warning: No decoder available for type 'application/x-id3'.
(22:26:24) gstreamer error: Your GStreamer installation is missing a
plug-in.
(22:26:24) gstreamer error: Internal data stream error.

installed the crap gstreamer1.0-plugins-good and it worked as expected.

The only problem left is that it does not produce the splitted file names
from the original file.

It says "description here_part1.mp3"

I don't know if it is the file name itself is a problem. If you have some
other nice advice, it's welcome

thank you all

regards

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

didier gaumet wrote:

> from the mp3split manpage:
> [...]
> " mp3splt -s f.mp3 or mp3splt -s -p th=-50,nt=10 f.mp3
> 
> This is silence option. Mp3splt will try to automatically detect
> splitpoints with silence detection and in the first case will split all
> tracks found with default parameters, while in the second 10 tracks (or
> less if too much) with the most probable silence points at a threshold
> of -50 dB. "
> [...]
> 
> if there are no blanks but there are silences or at least less noisy
> moments in your audio file, you could try the -s or -s,-p and -th options?

Thank you but I have read the documentation of mp3splt carefully and nothing
of it applies to my case - the files I want to split are remixes - there is
no silence or even lower point. It does not apply. I want to schedule the
points myself by mouse click.

Thank you for the effort.

If nothing helps I'll have to write a simple gui to do the job. Thanks God
my skills apply of course if time is available.

Regards

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[didier gaumet]

Le 25/09/2017 à 20:14, deloptes a écrit :

> I'll try the GUI, though I prefer not installing packages just for
> testing ... perhaps a VM will server.
> 
> As for the mp3splt - as said before I use it, but I have to enter manually
> the time point to plit, which I expect to be possible to do in a gui, by
> simply doing a mouse click and selecting schedule split here or similar.
> 
> I don't want to type each time point somewhere manually - I'll get old until
> I'm done :)
> 
> thank and regards

from the mp3split manpage:
[...]
" mp3splt -s f.mp3 or mp3splt -s -p th=-50,nt=10 f.mp3

This is silence option. Mp3splt will try to automatically detect
splitpoints with silence detection and in the first case will split all
tracks found with default parameters, while in the second 10 tracks (or
less if too much) with the most probable silence points at a threshold
of -50 dB. "
[...]

if there are no blanks but there are silences or at least less noisy
moments in your audio file, you could try the -s or -s,-p and -th options?

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

Thomas Amm wrote:

> 1. Select region to be saved as a separate track
> 2. Chose "export selected audio" from file menu
> 

too much work for simple task ... I want to right click and say create split
here. I can not export each single track from 10 mp3 files with 20 tracks
each :(

> You might prefer copying or moving the selected audio into a new audio
> track, setting it to "solo" and "export audio" (without "selected")
> instead, if you need to do this more often. There are many roads
> leading to Rome...

obviously so far we've not found the shortest way to Rome :)

thanks and regards

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

didier gaumet wrote:

> found a similar question on the web:
>  https://askubuntu.com/questions/27574/how-can-i-split-a-mp3-file/27637
> 
> I have not experimented these solutions myself, but Audacity seems not
> to be the best way. Mentionned here are mp3split (CLI and GUI) and
> ffmpeg (CLI).

I'll try the GUI, though I prefer not installing packages just for
testing ... perhaps a VM will server.

As for the mp3splt - as said before I use it, but I have to enter manually
the time point to plit, which I expect to be possible to do in a gui, by
simply doing a mouse click and selecting schedule split here or similar.

I don't want to type each time point somewhere manually - I'll get old until
I'm done :)

thank and regards

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[Thomas Amm]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 09:14:25 +0200
deloptes  wrote:

> jam...@touchtonecorp.com wrote:
> 
> > Have you considered Audacity? I use the Mac version myself, and it's
> > available for Linux and WinDoze as well.  
> 
> 
> Can you add some simple guide/howto setup split points and perform
> the split in Audacity.
> 
> That would be great
> 
> Last time I had a look at Audacity it was like sophisticated audio
> editor... and I have not used one since 2001.
> 
> thanks in advance - regards
> 

1. Select region to be saved as a separate track
2. Chose "export selected audio" from file menu

You might prefer copying or moving the selected audio into a new audio
track, setting it to "solo" and "export audio" (without "selected")
instead, if you need to do this more often. There are many roads
leading to Rome...
 

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Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

Curt wrote:

> If you're referring to an external repository (Marillat's?) I do not; I
> noted simply that mp3splt is not included in Debian Stretch's
> repository for whatever reason.
> 
> Reading the changelog it seems it was "orphaned" in February, removed
> from Stretch, but has since been readopted (exists in testing and
> unstable).

AFAIK multimedia was reorganized.

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multimedia.list
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free

indeed it is from Marillat

regards

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[Thomas Amm]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 07:00:15 + (UTC)
Curt  wrote:

> On 2017-09-24, Thomas Amm  wrote:
> >
> > Have you tried mp3split-gtk? Should do exactly that.  
> 
> I was going to suggest 'mp3splt' myself.
> 
> (Note the 'i' from split has split in the package name).

Outch. Right. 

> It also appears that the package (both command line and gtk gui) is
> missing from Stretch. Why, I dunno. The library and development
> packages are there, but the app itself seems to have gone the way of
> the 'i' in split.
> 
> 

It might help adding these to /etc/apt/sources.list: 

deb http://debian.ids-services.de/debian-multimedia/ stretch main
deb-src http://debian.ids-services.de/debian-multimedia/ stretch main

(replace "stretch" with "buster" or "testing" if running testing and
maybe find a mirror closer to you)

Actually it is helping so nicely, I completely forgot I had added
"debian-multimedia" to sources.list 


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Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[Curt]

On 2017-09-25, deloptes  wrote:
> Curt wrote:
>
>> On 2017-09-24, Thomas Amm  wrote:
>>>
>>> Have you tried mp3split-gtk? Should do exactly that.
>> 
>> I was going to suggest 'mp3splt' myself.
>> 
>> (Note the 'i' from split has split in the package name).
>> 
>> It also appears that the package (both command line and gtk gui) is
>> missing from Stretch. Why, I dunno. The library and development packages
>> are there, but the app itself seems to have gone the way of
>> the 'i' in split.
>
> Yes , see my other post - I have them in stretch - perhaps you don't have
> the multimedia in your source.list.

If you're referring to an external repository (Marillat's?) I do not; I
noted simply that mp3splt is not included in Debian Stretch's
repository for whatever reason.

Reading the changelog it seems it was "orphaned" in February, removed
from Stretch, but has since been readopted (exists in testing and
unstable).

> regards
>
>


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Christopher Hitchens, commenting shortly after the nearly concurrent deaths 
of Lady Diana and Mother Theresa.

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

Curt wrote:

> On 2017-09-24, Thomas Amm  wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried mp3split-gtk? Should do exactly that.
> 
> I was going to suggest 'mp3splt' myself.
> 
> (Note the 'i' from split has split in the package name).
> 
> It also appears that the package (both command line and gtk gui) is
> missing from Stretch. Why, I dunno. The library and development packages
> are there, but the app itself seems to have gone the way of
> the 'i' in split.

Yes , see my other post - I have them in stretch - perhaps you don't have
the multimedia in your source.list.

regards

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

jam...@touchtonecorp.com wrote:

> Have you considered Audacity? I use the Mac version myself, and it's
> available for Linux and WinDoze as well.


Can you add some simple guide/howto setup split points and perform the split
in Audacity.

That would be great

Last time I had a look at Audacity it was like sophisticated audio editor...
and I have not used one since 2001.

thanks in advance - regards

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[didier gaumet]

found a similar question on the web:
 https://askubuntu.com/questions/27574/how-can-i-split-a-mp3-file/27637

I have not experimented these solutions myself, but Audacity seems not
to be the best way. Mentionned here are mp3split (CLI and GUI) and
ffmpeg (CLI).

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> +1 for Audacity.
> 
> BTW, please post your solution when you solve it - especially command
> line apps and options.

In this specific case I will not have a script solution. I expect the
application to be able to do this.

I don't have Audacity installed and I wanted to be sure it can do the job
before installing it.

at the moment I use
mp3splt -t 5.00 -f -a -d XXX yyy.mp3
followed by
cd XXX

for i in `ls -1`; do
 mp3check -e \
--fix-headers  --fix-crc \
--cut-junk-start --cut-junk-end $i;
done

Last part is to fix the headers and some other things that prevent them
playing on my car audio system

But I want a gui to listen to the stream and set up the points to split
because as you see in my solution it splits at each 5th minute.

I'll look at Audacity next

Thank you

regards

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[Curt]

On 2017-09-24, Thomas Amm  wrote:
>
> Have you tried mp3split-gtk? Should do exactly that.

I was going to suggest 'mp3splt' myself.

(Note the 'i' from split has split in the package name).

It also appears that the package (both command line and gtk gui) is
missing from Stretch. Why, I dunno. The library and development packages
are there, but the app itself seems to have gone the way of
the 'i' in split.


-- 
"A simpering Bambi narcissist and a thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf."
Christopher Hitchens, commenting shortly after the nearly concurrent deaths 
of Lady Diana and Mother Theresa.

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[Thomas Amm]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 23:26:40 +0200
deloptes  wrote:

> Hi all,
> I know this topic was discussed quite a few times.
> 
> Now I was thinking that someone of you could know how to solve
> following problem.
> 
> I have some remixes (no silence between tracks). How can I split those
> easily?
> 
> I need a tool, where I can mark the place in the mp3 file for
> splitting (schedule a split or queue a split job or alike) and run
> the split process, which in result should produce the mp3 files -
> preferably in subdirectory with the same name as the file and prefix
> number :).
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Regards
> 
> 

Have you tried mp3split-gtk? Should do exactly that.

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Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:26:40PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Hi all,
> I know this topic was discussed quite a few times.
> 
> Now I was thinking that someone of you could know how to solve following
> problem.
> 
> I have some remixes (no silence between tracks). How can I split those
> easily?
> 
> I need a tool, where I can mark the place in the mp3 file for splitting
> (schedule a split or queue a split job or alike) and run the split process,
> which in result should produce the mp3 files - preferably in subdirectory
> with the same name as the file and prefix number :).

+1 for Audacity.

BTW, please post your solution when you solve it - especially command
line apps and options.

Good luck,

Re: Splitting MP3 files (again)

[jamesl]

Have you considered Audacity? I use the Mac version myself, and it's available 
for Linux and WinDoze as well.
-- 
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Splitting MP3 files (again)

[deloptes]

Hi all,
I know this topic was discussed quite a few times.

Now I was thinking that someone of you could know how to solve following
problem.

I have some remixes (no silence between tracks). How can I split those
easily?

I need a tool, where I can mark the place in the mp3 file for splitting
(schedule a split or queue a split job or alike) and run the split process,
which in result should produce the mp3 files - preferably in subdirectory
with the same name as the file and prefix number :).

Thanks in advance

Regards