From: Johan Vromans <jvromans_at_squirrel.nl>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:35:02 +0200 (CEST)

"Andreas Stemmer" <groovingandi_at_gmx.de> writes:

> Another possiblity would be to put the mp3 together before decoding
> (mp3DirectCut does it, I don't know *NIX equivalents),

I've written a bunch of Perl programs[1][2] to play nice tricks with MP3
files. Cutting and concatenating is one of them. For example:

  % id3v2 -D *mp3
  Stripping id3 tag in "Wish_You_Were_Here.mp3"...id3v1 and v2 stripped.
  % perl mp3cut.pl --verbose Wish_You_Were_Here.mp3.cue
  Processing Wish_You_Were_Here.mp3
     1 _at_ 0:00:00 01_Shine_on_You_Crazy_Diamond_(Part_I-V).mp3
     2 _at_ 13:32:67 02_Welcome_to_The_Machine.mp3
     3 _at_ 21:06:17 03_Have_a_Cigar.mp3
     4 _at_ 26:30:47 04_Wish_You_Were_Here.mp3
     5 _at_ 31:46:57 05_Shine_on_You_Crazy_Diamond_(Part_vi-Ix).mp3
  % cat 0*.mp3 | cmp - Wish_You_Were_Here.mp3
  %

As you can see, the concatenation of the parts is identical to the
original. No need to keep the original and the split parts anymore.

-- Johan

[1] Should run on any platform that can run Perl.
[2] I'll be releasing some of these tools in due time. I wrote them for
    my personal needs and they need some cleanup + documentation
    before general release.
Received on 2003-07-14