I gotz a long mp3, you gotz seperationz?

August 8, 2009 8:11 AM

Looking for a program that separates a long mp3 file into individual tracks based on silent gaps in between.

I used to have a program that would take an hour long mp3 file and separate it into individual tracks, based on volume (so if there was a silent gap, it would separate what was on either side into two different tracks.

This was years ago, it was free, and I can't remember what it was called. Googling is not helping.

Bonus points for: works with Mp3s natively (i.e. don't need to convert to Wavs).

Bonus points for any other suggestions on how to handle large files (concert recordings) efficiently...I end up taping a lot of house music sessions and being able to separate a 1.5 hour mp3 into 15 different files very quickly would be very useful.

Thanks!

posted by sully75 to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Your Google-fu must be failing. This search provides some appropriate results.
posted by nostrich at 8:15 AM on August 8, 2009

mp3splt does this on linux.
posted by a robot made out of meat at 8:41 AM on August 8, 2009

Goldwave can do it. I used it to split long audiobooks this way.
posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 2:23 PM on August 8, 2009

I sometimes feel like I'm always touting it, but Praat can do this if you run the "word chomper" script. This is fairly trivial. Should work with mp3s.
posted by knile at 11:48 AM on August 9, 2009