How to cut a MP3 in half?

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the uuencode / bzip2 is useless.

#split it binary in 500k chuncks
split -b 500k track.mp3 splittedTrack
#now just check it
rm result
cat splittedTrack* >> result
#both md5sum should be same
md5sum result
md5sum splittedTrack

Duncan Anderson a écrit :

>On Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:52, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:06 -0600, Wade Smart wrote:
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>>>I have to upload an mp3 but its to large (and I didnt create it).
>>>Is there a way to cut it in half and then upload it?
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>>Maybe you could just "compress" it to ZIP or tar.gz or whatever format,
>>since most archivers can split an archives into several small files,
>>typically to fit it onto multiple floppy disks.
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>>--
>>Vince
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>The "old-fashioned way" of doing this, (speaking as an old UNIX support 
>person), is the following:
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>uuencode Track.mp3 Track.mp3 > Track.uu
>LINES=`wc -l Track.uu`
>SPLITLINES=`expr $LINES / 2`
>split --lines=$SPLITLINES Track.uu Track
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>This will produce two uuencoded parts which can then be compressed:
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>bzip2 Track??
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>resulting in Trackaa.bz2 and Trackab.bz2
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>These can be uploaded, and then later downloaded. The reassembly goes like 
>this:
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>bunzip2 Track??.bz2
>cat Track?? > Track.uu
>uudecode Track.uu
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>You will now have the EXACT original file, no loss of any kind.
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>cheers
>Duncan 
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