[linux-audio-user] Directly editing mp3 files

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On Sat May 27, 2006 at 10:47:39PM -0700, Robert Persson wrote:
> Is there a tool that will allow me to directly edit mp3 files (i.e. without 
> decompressing them first)? I remember that I used to use a program that would 
> do that in mac os 9.
> 
> There are a couple of situations in which I need to crop or chop up very long 
> audio recordings and where precision is not important, but the time it takes 
> for the various audio editors to read or write huge uncompressed wav files, 
> as well as to compress the edited files, is a real problem.
> 
> For instance I sometimes collect sonic doodles on a dictaphone, which means 
> that I need to be able to sample an entire side of the tape, go through it 
> very quickly and save the interesting bits for future reference. I don't want 
> to spend hours doing this.
> 
> I'm not at all bothered whether I use mp3, ogg or something else as the 
> compressed format. If there is something simple that might work under wine I 
> would happily give that a go.

mp3directcut goes great w/ wine: http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html

> 
> Many thanks
> Robert
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