From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Aug 14 10:22:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCD737B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.qc.uunet.ca (mail2.qc.uunet.ca [198.168.54.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB86143E4A for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:22:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx) Received: from xtanbul (IDENT:506@[216.94.147.34]) by mail2.qc.uunet.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02367; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:22:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:11:51 -0400 Subject: Re: editing MP3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org To: Alex Marandon From: Antoine Beaupre In-Reply-To: <20020814155858.A59193@alpage.org> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 09:58 AM, Alex Marandon wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:31:19AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: >> >> So, I have an MP3 of a Net radio show. Part of this radio show >> includes an interview. I want to "trim" the mp3 to only include that >> interview, so I can burn it to CD and send it to my mom. (The >> interview is with me, and she's quite intent upon hearing it.) >> >> I've poked around /usr/ports/audio, and found some "sound editors", >> but have no idea which are any good for something simple like this. > > /usr/ports/audio/audacity can do it well. Audacity is indeed a good sound editor. The problem with such editors is that they edit a "rendered" (or internal) version of the sound file. In raw file (lossless) formats such as WAV or AIFF, that is not a problem, but with MP3, there is a slight loss of quality at each re-encoding. I suggest taking a look at audio/mp3asm. It can edit mp3s directly, without decoding+encoding it. >> I'm sure I could make it work by hook and crook, but I'm going to do >> an article about this and want to discuss a reasonable solution, not >> some screwball solution I cook up for this one event. :-) > > It as simple as drawing a selection with the mouse and pressing the > Delete key to supress the unwanted audio data. If you're more of the command line type, you could also take a look at the very powerful ecasound suite. It's a bit tricky to use because of the many command line switches, but it can probably do what you want. A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message