MP3 Question

[Jonathan Kaye]

Toby Dickenson wrote:

> James Takac wrote:
> 
>> On Sunday 01 July 2007 01:13:59 Chris wrote:
>>> Hiya folks -
>>>
>>> Is that an application that will allow me to split up an MP3
>>> album?  It seems a friend of mine somehow gave me a CD in one huge MP3
>>> file.
>> 
>> Audacity will do the job
> 
> Audacity will do the job badly. MP3 encoding is lossy, therefore there
> will be an additional loss of quality when audacity reencodes the split
> mp3 files.
> 
> Try the mp3splt package, which can do this without reencoding.

I agree with Toby. mp3splt will do the job much more easily than audacity.
If you can find the .xmcd file here:
http://www.freedb.org/
then you can feed that to mp3splt and it will automatically split the file
at the right times and label the tracks correctly. It works a treat.
Cheers,
Jonathan

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