How to cut a MP3 in half?

[Wade Smart]

03302006 1144 GMT-6

Freakin 'a'. That is awesome! I had no idea it was going to be
that easy! I was going to try audacity but I wasnt sure what
I was going to do.

Again, this is why I LOVE the linux platform - and why this
group is the best.

Thanks.

Wade



Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

>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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>You could just use 'dd', it already on your system.
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>For example:
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>dd if=song.mp3  of=truncated_song.mp3 bs=1024 count=1000
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>This will keep only the first megabyte of the song.
>Adjust the "count" variable accordingly.
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>If your song weights say 5MB, use count=2500 , and so on.
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>--
>Vince
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