Re: [linux-audio-user] graphic MP3 editor

On Friday 05 December 2003 13:44, Dave Phillips wrote: Well, I don't see how to use Maaate or its GUI Bewdy as an mp3 editor in the style of MP3 Editor. I'm talking dead simple Audacity style interface, only you're looking at MPEG frame peaks and cutting on boundaries/fading in and out, simple things like that, and it saves the unmodified MPEG frames back out, recompressing the changed frames (through fading or whatever) on the fly. I'd send a screenshot but for some reason they don't seem to exist. There is a console MP3 cutter, "MPGEDIT" at http://www.mpgedit.org that looks like it might be wrappable by a GUI app like the one described above (they have a Tk thing called xmpgedit but it just works on index points like the command line and curses apps) but again, I haven't found the time to start working on that (maybe Maaate's visual analysis features would be good to reuse in such an app.) However, your post did remind me of the existence of your sound apps page, and I went and looked and discovered mpcut, which looks and acts much like a stripped down Data Becker MP3 Editor. Of course, it hasn't been updated in about 3 years, has no fading, locks up for the duration of playback, and chokes on most of the mp3's I tried it on (guessing it has issues with VBR) but it does qualify in theory. Rob