[linux-audio-user] Directly editing mp3 files

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Robert Persson escribió:
> 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.
>
> Many thanks
> Robert
>   
Have you tried either Audacity or ReZound? If you have the needed libs, 
you can directly edit mp3s and save them to mp3, ogg, FLAC or wav or 
raw, or whatever format you need.