Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Splitting large audio files into tracks

[Alan McKinnon]

On 02/01/2016 23:42, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-01-02, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> I have quite a few large audio rip files that need to be split up
>> into their respective tracks.
> [...]
>> I very seldom work with audio files directly, so I'm mostly clueless
>> in this area and it's easier to ask folks who do this often what
>> packages out there are good at it.
>
> I have only done it a few times, but I used audacity.  It also allowed
> me to mix the two channels down to one (it was an audio book, and
> mixing the two channles reduced the tape hiss a little).

Good to know, I'll give is a try

>
>> Bonus points for packages that use musicbrainz or similar
>
> Not sure how an an audio editor would use something like that.  After
> you use something like audacity (or just plain sox commands) to split
> the file into tracks, you'll have to use a separate program to set the
> MP3 tags.


I'm thinking that musicbrainz knows the tracks and how long they are. If
I supply the exact correct release, and editor could do the splitting at
the correct point (so I don't have to guess)

If the editor can't update the metadata, then beets can.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com