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Post by Rabbit on Jul 21, 2013 16:58:43 GMT
Is there a decent (preferably free) programme to join files together?
I have some older MP3 files and wavs that have split albums into tracks when they're supposed to be gapless. (Yes, I know, get a gapless player like Foobar) However, the Ipods are funny - they play gapless on their own format but not MP3. It's very annoying.
So if I make a great big file, at least I can listen without blips.
I have tried copying and pasting sections together in a music editing programme, but you can (just) hear the joins which is also annoying. (Like someone doing a mini cough in a concert!!)
Anyone know of a decent MP3 merger?
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Post by Crispy on Jul 21, 2013 19:15:45 GMT
Is there a decent (preferably free) programme to join files together? I have some older MP3 files and wavs that have split albums into tracks when they're supposed to be gapless. (Yes, I know, get a gapless player like Foobar) However, the Ipods are funny - they play gapless on their own format but not MP3. It's very annoying. So if I make a great big file, at least I can listen without blips. I have tried copying and pasting sections together in a music editing programme, but you can (just) hear the joins which is also annoying. (Like someone doing a mini cough in a concert!!) Anyone know of a decent MP3 merger? Ian, how many files are you talking of? If it is not too many I can join them for you using Adobe Audition, or you could send me say ten at a time etc until they are done. Regards Chris
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Post by Javier on Jul 21, 2013 19:34:58 GMT
Why not simply convert to ALAC, AIFF or M4A?
It'll be very easy to convert the WAVs to AIFF using Foobar, converting to ALAC will require a little more effort to setup the FFMpeg encoder but not rocket science either.
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Post by Rabbit on Jul 21, 2013 19:40:49 GMT
Actually it's quite a few things that I have that are in mp3 or in Wav format as individual files, but the pieces should have no breaks, so generally, when I rip files like this, I do an image of the CD and create one long wav, but I have a lot of older stuff that is split and I just want to stitch them together without having to manually do it which I have tried, but you actually hear the joins very slightly!!
I just wondered if there was a utility that just stitches them up for you.
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Post by Javier on Jul 21, 2013 20:41:42 GMT
There are quite a few apps that can merge/join MP3s and WAVs though no idea if the merged file they produce have inaudible joins or you'll still get a click. I've never used them.
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Post by Rabbit on Jul 21, 2013 20:59:01 GMT
I could manually take the 'clicks' out but it would very slightly upset the timing.
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Post by Javier on Jul 21, 2013 21:20:32 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2013 15:42:04 GMT
Nero do a free wav editor (which IIRC works with mp3 as well). I use the wav editor to join tracks and they play seamlessly and click-free. Try this - Official Nero Free Wav EditorHere's the page its taken from : - Free Nero d/lsScroll to near the bottom where it shows "Nero Free Applications" They do a Soundtrax program which might be of special interest to you as its more musician-based
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Post by Rabbit on Jul 22, 2013 16:22:22 GMT
Thanks both, I'll take a look. It's getting them to link without an audible sound on the joining point that's difficult.
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Post by drymdrum on Jul 23, 2013 0:00:46 GMT
Hi Ian, I use Audacity to record an audio book from the Scottish Farmer weekly magazine each week. The resultant digital copy is then sent out to around thirty registered blind clients by USB stick. In general each article is recorded to one track and saved as a separate sound bite, allowing the listener to easily go back and listen again should they wish. On occasion I might wish to marry two or three tracks which have a related theme and have found that you can eliminate the pop or crack which almost always inserts it's self at the join by using fade in and fade out on the section of silence between both sound bites. It's best to do any reduction in the gap first before fading. I always fade out each track then fade in the next when building an album of music, it eliminates those pops and gives a smooth transition between recordings. Hope this helps, yes it takes a little time to do and you may have to fade in several times over the same section to get a result. Regards, Alan
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