fastest way to split an mp3?

[vital]

i have a 1gb mp3 file and i need to split it in half... what's the fastest way without decoding to wav and reencoding to mp3?

 

[JonnyBlaze]

use adobe audition.

JB

 

[CTho9305]

if you have access to cygwin tools (or a linux/unix machine)
dd if=in.mp3 of=out1.mp3 bs=1048576 count=512
dd if=in.mp3 of=out2.mp3 bs=1048576 count=1000 skip=512
(the second count is higher since I assume your file isn't exactly 1 GB)

to put them together again: cat out1.mp3 out2.mp3 > new.mp3