recording gig with MP3 player ... how to chop up resulting..

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Grant wrote:
>
> My biggest concern (and the reason I'm writing) is that, once I have a a
> single 3- to 4-hour long stereo MP3 file (equals about 400 MB?), it's
> not clear to me how to conveniently chop it up into tracks that I can
> selectively write out to an audio CD. Will I need to render the entire
> MP3 file to WAV format and then find a program (and computer) that can
> load and edit a 2.4 GB WAV file? Or is there a simple way to split up
> the MP3 file into manageable pieces without converting to WAV first?

mp3DirectCut will allow you to chop and adjust volume (including fades) on MP3 files without decoding/re-encoding <http://mpesch3.de1.cc/#mp3dc>

If you want to do more (EQ, compression, etc.) you will have to decode the files to WAV format and then work on them.

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:17:29 -0600, Grant <gpetty@REMOVEaos.wisc.edu>
wrote:

>
>Although I know it's not ideal from a technology point of view, I
>tentatively plan to use my flash memory-based MP3 player to record one
>of my band's live performances. My reasoning is that it's still a better
>option than, say, a portable casette deck, not least because I don't
>have to worry about switching tapes in the middle of a 4-hour set.
>
>Here's the basic set-up: two $30 electret omnis from Radio Shack -> a
>Midiman "Audio Buddy" stereo preamp -> line-in on my MP3 player, which
>has 1GB of memory and can record stereo line-in as a fairly high-quality
>MP3 file.
>
>My biggest concern (and the reason I'm writing) is that, once I have a a
>single 3- to 4-hour long stereo MP3 file (equals about 400 MB?), it's
>not clear to me how to conveniently chop it up into tracks that I can
>selectively write out to an audio CD. Will I need to render the entire
>MP3 file to WAV format and then find a program (and computer) that can
>load and edit a 2.4 GB WAV file? Or is there a simple way to split up
>the MP3 file into manageable pieces without converting to WAV first?


If you're ending up with an audio CD, it's going to convert to wav in
any case. It doesn't really matter at what point this happens -
before or after editing.

What program are you using to burn the CD? Many come with a basic
wave editor, allowing you to split and trim a long file into
individual tracks. Or even to insert track boundary markers into a
long file, allowing it to play continuously but with track marks for
convenience.

If you use Nero, the supplied wav editor will do this.

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