From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 21:57:01 2005 Return-Path: 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 4C20316A4D4 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:57:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEAC443D45 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:56:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.4) with SMTP id IAA21634; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:56:47 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:56:46 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: John Wilson In-Reply-To: <20050102161639.7dad47bf.BSD-Mail@nyc.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MP3 editing tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:57:01 -0000 On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, John Wilson wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew of any ports in the ports tree, or otherwise > for that matter, that would allow one to lop off the first few seconds > of an MP3 file... but not touching the file in any other way, as in being > able to do this without having to convert the file to any other format and > then being required to reconvert it back to an MP3. MP3s are self-synching .. modulo losing any tag header info, we've had good results just seeking anywhere into hour-long MP3 recordings of an FM station's logging files, and just cutting out sections using dd .. Cheers, Ian