On Sat May 27, 2006 at 10:47:39PM -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > Is there a tool that will allow me to directly edit mp3 files (i.e. without > decompressing them first)? I remember that I used to use a program that would > do that in mac os 9. > > There are a couple of situations in which I need to crop or chop up very long > audio recordings and where precision is not important, but the time it takes > for the various audio editors to read or write huge uncompressed wav files, > as well as to compress the edited files, is a real problem. > > For instance I sometimes collect sonic doodles on a dictaphone, which means > that I need to be able to sample an entire side of the tape, go through it > very quickly and save the interesting bits for future reference. I don't want > to spend hours doing this. > > I'm not at all bothered whether I use mp3, ogg or something else as the > compressed format. If there is something simple that might work under wine I > would happily give that a go. mp3directcut goes great w/ wine: http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html > > Many thanks > Robert > -- > Robert Persson > > Conspiracy Bears: > Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... >
