[nflug] Splitting large mp3 files

[Cyber Source]

I would imagine that kbuntu would have the same repos as ubuntu. Edit 
/etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment any repos that might be commented. 
Then run "apt-get update", then "apt-get install mp3split". You can also 
search the repos by "apt-cache search words words" and this will find 
packages based on words, words. You can also limit this to would only be 
in the names with the optional "--names-only".
Tell audacity where lame is, and then choose mp3 as an export type, 
browse through your options, gotta poke around a bit.

Joe wrote:
> mp3split:
> What repository is it in?  My system doesn't find it - and when I
> downloaded a deb from the web, it couldn't find libmp3split.
>
> audacity:
> I just tried that and it wants to export as a wav file.  Do I have to do
> that and then run each segment through lame?
>
> Thanks.
>   Joe
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>   
>> sudo apt-get install mp3split.
>> in audacity, select your time section, then export selection, repeat
>> as necessary.
>>
>> Joshua Johnson wrote:
>>     
>>> mp3split looks like the way to go. Maybe you can install it from source?
>>>
>>> Other than that the only things I can think of are audacity (which
>>> you already tried) and ardour. Ardour I am positive can do it but it
>>> is probably more cumbersome and complicated than audacity for this task.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us
>>> <mailto:josephj at main.nc.us>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I have an audio version of a book in the form of one 11+ hour mp3
>>>     file.
>>>     This file is difficult to manage and my stand-alone player gives up
>>>     after about 2 hours.
>>>
>>>     I'd like to break the file into one hour chunks.  How do I do that?
>>>
>>>     I tried loading it into audacity (which took 15 minutes).  I
>>> figured I
>>>     could select one section at a time and save it to its own file.  I
>>>     think
>>>     I was able to select a section, but I couldn't find any "Save
>>>     selection
>>>     to file" option.
>>>
>>>     Apparently, kubuntu hardy doesn't come with an audacity
>>> documentation
>>>     package,
>>>     so the help function doesn't work.  I'm going to try to find it on
>>>     the web.
>>>
>>>     I found a utility called mp3split, but could not find a deb that
>>> would
>>>     install (found one for it, but not for its library) and could not
>>>     compile it from source.
>>>
>>>     Normally, I would just load the whole thing, chop it down to one
>>>     section
>>>     and save as. In this case though, that would take around 3 hours
>>> just
>>>     for repeated loading of the original file.
>>>
>>>     Any ideas?
>>>
>>>     TIA
>>>
>>>     Joe
>>>
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