[nflug] Splitting large mp3 files

[Joe]

I did the uncommenting and adding repositories thing some time ago and I
still don't find mp3split, so I still need to know what repo it's in so
I can figure out why.

How do I tell audacity where lame is?  Lame is installed and working.

Joe


Cyber Source wrote:
> 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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