Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
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Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
Having just discovered how to rip audio from youtube files, I'm now stuck with one track that is super long. Anyone have any pointers on how to split this up into individual tracks?
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
You can do it in Audacity. Just cut the parts you don't want and export the shortened section as a new MP3.wease wrote:Having just discovered how to rip audio from youtube files, I'm now stuck with one track that is super long. Anyone have any pointers on how to split this up into individual tracks?
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
Sweet. Thanks, LV.
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
Doing that re encodes though so you have a lossy reproduction of an already lossy file.
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
Yeah I tried that once with a concert and it was very hissy
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
Uh...no. You can't edit an MP3 without re-encoding it again. You have to extract the audio in WAV, split the tracks apart with CDWav or something similar, and then make MP3's from that.LoathedVermin72 wrote:You can do it in Audacity. Just cut the parts you don't want and export the shortened section as a new MP3.wease wrote:Having just discovered how to rip audio from youtube files, I'm now stuck with one track that is super long. Anyone have any pointers on how to split this up into individual tracks?
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
The Audacity way still works. If the starting point is a YouTube rip, I think you guys are overthinking this.
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
So you're taking something crappy and making it sound twice as crappy. Makes sense.LoathedVermin72 wrote:The Audacity way still works. If the starting point is a YouTube rip, I think you guys are overthinking this.
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OMG calm down you blowhard
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
He's right about this. Encoding to mp3 from a good source at a good bitrate is no big deal, but re encoding an mp3 from a lossy youtube rip is going to sound like crap.
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
Jesus Christ you are both insufferable when it comes to anything audio-related
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
I'm trying to be reasonable and level headed about this.
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
Your RM interview sounded like garbage
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Yeah Jorge recorded that.
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
I meant Ruddo's
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
you win this round, globehead
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
I didn't mean to start a fight
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Re: Splitting tracks in a big mp3 file
I've ripped concerts from youtube videos that sounded excellent...better than an FM broadcast anyway. But that's because I did everything in WAV, rather than re-encoding an MP3 four times.