[LAU] splitting a large file

[David Adler]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Emanuel Rumpf <xbran at web.de> wrote:
> Oh, I forgot to change the topic, so again..
>
> Hi
>
> I'd like to split a large file ( in w64 wav format )
> into smaller pieces of about 3 minutes length.
> (and later convert the pieces to mp3)
>
> Any suggestions how to reasonable (fast and simple) accomplish that?
>

If it is an option to convert before splitting you could
use anything (ecasound) for conversion and then
qmp3cut from the quelcom audio utilities or mp3split.
They cut without re-encoding.

For a gui I'd use audacity.
I'm Just pondering about command line options, things
could be automated then...

qwavcut from quelcom doesn't seem to like .w64 files,
I don't know about tools for cutting them.

best,
david