[LAU] Piecing together audio files

[Brett McCoy]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:33 AM, jonetsu at teksavvy.com
<jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:

>   I would like to build an audio file using several other audio files,
> preferably with some 2-4 seconds silence between them.  Actually this
> is to upload to youtube a series of songs as one single file, that does
> not need the use of a playlist.  The files are currently in wav (Ardour
> export) and ogg.  Which tool can be used to construct such a file ?
>
>   Very quickly I'd think of using Ardour to put all the files one after
> another and then export the result, but that seems overkill, and
> possibly taking more time to do. There has to be something more like a
> 'tool' to do that.  Suggestions ?

If you are looking at a command-line tool for this, sox can concatenate files:

http://sox.sourceforge.net/Docs/Features

I believe there is a way you can insert silence at the beginning of a
file, but you'll have to read the man page on that.

On the other hand, Ardour is a perfectly fine way to do what you want
to do, especially if you need to do any last minute
leveling/compression or EQing to keep the tracks consistent

-- 
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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