looking for a program to splice two or more mp3's together

[ECHO]

freeware would be nice

 

[Zugzwang152]

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

 

[Need4Speed]

mpgtx

 

[ECHO]

I downloaded audacity last night but, while it looks like a great program and has some wonderful tools, it's WAY more than I need and I really don't want to spend 3 weeks learning the program. To me, it's not very intuitive and the help menus pretty much suck. I can't find any instructions at all on simply splicing two mp3 files together lineally. I'm sure the program can do it; the developers just seem to be keeping it a secret or require one to have a PhD in computer science to figure it out.

Also, I tried downloading mpgtx but it's in some strange format: mpgtx-1.3.1.tar.gz what am I supposed to do with that??

There has to be a SIMPLE program that takes two mp3 files and combines them into one. I can't imagine that I'm the first person that has wanted to do this...

 

[JonnyBlaze]

the easiest way would to use a dos command.

type this at a command prompt:

copy /b filename1.mp3 + filename2.mp3 outputfilename.mp3


make sure your in the right folder.

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
the easiest way would to use a dos command.

type this at a command prompt:

copy /b filename1.mp3 + filename2.mp3 outputfilename.mp3


make sure your in the right folder.

But then you'd have ID3 tags embedded in the middle of the mp3.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

Originally posted by: igowerf

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
the easiest way would to use a dos command.

type this at a command prompt:

copy /b filename1.mp3 + filename2.mp3 outputfilename.mp3


make sure your in the right folder.

But then you'd have ID3 tags embedded in the middle of the mp3.

i tested it and it works.

hes gonna have to redo the tags anyways.

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze

Originally posted by: igowerf

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
the easiest way would to use a dos command.

type this at a command prompt:

copy /b filename1.mp3 + filename2.mp3 outputfilename.mp3


make sure your in the right folder.

But then you'd have ID3 tags embedded in the middle of the mp3.

i tested it and it works.

hes gonna have to redo the tags anyways.

I just combined two files that have ID3 1.1 and ID3 2.3 tags and it only worked partially. WMP can play all of the file, but foobar only plays the first song. foobar probably found the ID3 1.1 tag and stopped scanning after that.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

Originally posted by: igowerf

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze

Originally posted by: igowerf

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
the easiest way would to use a dos command.

type this at a command prompt:

copy /b filename1.mp3 + filename2.mp3 outputfilename.mp3


make sure your in the right folder.

But then you'd have ID3 tags embedded in the middle of the mp3.

i tested it and it works.

hes gonna have to redo the tags anyways.

I just combined two files that have ID3 1.1 and ID3 2.3 tags and it only worked partially. WMP can play all of the file, but foobar only plays the first song. foobar probably found the ID3 1.1 tag and stopped scanning after that.

damn. good find. i only tried it in winamp. ill see if theres a way to strip the tags first.

 

[Need4Speed]

mpgtx is a simple cli exe that does exatly what you guys are trying to do with the copy command.

 

[ECHO]

Originally posted by: Need4Speed
mpgtx is a simple cli exe that does exatly what you guys are trying to do with the copy command.

Need4Speed: It might be the perfect program and exactly what I am looking for but I can't do anything with the file that I downloaded, see my post above.

 

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: ECHO

Originally posted by: Need4Speed
mpgtx is a simple cli exe that does exatly what you guys are trying to do with the copy command.

Need4Speed: It might be the perfect program and exactly what I am looking for but I can't do anything with the file that I downloaded, see my post above.

it looks like you clicked on the link for the source code...you want the windows binary

http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mpgtx/mpgtx.zip

 

[ECHO]

it looks like you clicked on the link for the source code...you want the windows binary

http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mpgtx/mpgtx.zip

got, executed it, nothing. Am I missing something here?

 

[Need4Speed]

you need to run it from the command line...double clicking on it wont do anything.
here are examples:
http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/#Examples