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Title: Best way to cut up MP3 without recompressing?
Post by: shadowfax1007 on March 27, 2017, 11:35:12 AM

Hey guys,

What would be the best way to seperate an MP3 file into multiple MP3's without reencoding each file?
I managed to get a hold of some old, rare recordings of a band I love but the taper keeps them in single long mp3 files. The quality is already fairly compressed so I'd rather not further degrade the recordings.

Cheers

Title: Re: Best way to cut up MP3 without recompressing?
Post by: bombdiggity on March 27, 2017, 11:19:51 PM

You can use an MPEG cutter like MPEG-schnitte or some others. 

Audition also deals with MP3 so you can track them out in it... 

Title: Re: Best way to cut up MP3 without recompressing?
Post by: lpmaskman on March 28, 2017, 02:42:25 PM

mp3directcut

It works with aac codec too.

Title: Re: Best way to cut up MP3 without recompressing?
Post by: andante on March 30, 2017, 11:48:53 AM

^ seconded for mp3directcut (it's free!)

mp3DirectCut
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html

I use it all the time.

Super easy too:
Just drag your mp3 into the program and click the lower left button "Cut/Cue" on your split points then go to *File* and "Save Spit" and it outputs all of your tracks in order.  I can't remember but I think I may have originally set the preferences so that the naming convention had the track number at the beginning as well.