Mp3splt-gtk: powerful MP3 and OGG file splitting utility
Description: Mp3splt-gtk is a free multi-platform tool that can split large MP3 or OGG files without re-encoding. It offers a number of different ways to do this, including autodetecting silences, using a a local CDDB or CUE file, and downloading album and track length info from freedb.org . Other options include splitting by fixed time segments and unwrapping Albumwrap or MP3wrap files.
If you need a program that can split large MP3 or OGG files, look no further than Mp3splt-gtk. What makes this program noteworthy is the number of different ways that it offers to determine split points inside your audio file. Here are more notes on this program:
Split by autodetecting silences: you will need to provide the parameters for this such as the threshold level to mark a "silence", the cutpoint offset (0 is the beginning of the silence, 1 is the end), minimum silence length to detect, how many silences to process, and whether to remove the silences between tracks. It actually is quite easy and intuitive; you’ll be on your way the first time you use this method.- Downloading album info from the internet: (my favorite feature) if what you are splitting is a commercially available recording you can simply search for the audio/album you want to split in the "FreeDB" tab and select the correct match from the list of results. Mp3splt-gtk will use the downloaded track length information to determine the split points, which you can then audit and/or modify if needed in the "splitpoints" tab. This is also a great way to import tag info into your split files.
- Create, view, and edit splitpoints: you can do this visually from the "player" tab (press the play button to get your audio file to load and play your file using the internal player; can also use SnackAmp as an external player). Or you can click on the "Splitpoints" tab and create or edit split points there by typing in or editing time values (by minutes, seconds, and hundred fractions).
- Split by CDDB or CUE files: if you have access to these Mp3splt-gtk is able to use this information for quick audio file splitting.
- Wrapped files: can process files created with Albumwrap or the open source MP3Wrap (these programs can convert multiple audio files into a single file while enabling playing the components individually and maintaining tag information).
- Split by fixed time segments: also supported.
Wish list (or how this program can be even better)
- The option to autodetect silences and create split points without actually splitting (i..e. stopping short of splitting, but creating splitpoints in the "Splitpoints" and "Player" tabs). This will give the user the opportunity to audit these by listening to the result and/or edit them before actually splitting.
- Visually representing the audio waves in the "Player" tab, in the style of a sound editor such as Audacity. A little bit of eye candy that could be a really cool addition (although I would settle for just implementing the first point of the wish list above).
The verdict: if you are looking for a program to split MP3 and OGG audio files Mp3splt-gtk is one of the best free programs out there and certainly one of the most feature-rich and most innovative. Highly recommended!.
Version Tested: 0.5.2 (Windows).
Compatibility: WinAll, Linux, MacOSX
Go to program page to download the latest version (approx 17 megs).
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I’ve been using MP3DirectCut up to now. Not only does Mp3splt-gtk handle OGG files as well, but it seems to have many more settings than MP3DirectCut. I’ll give it a try.
Do you know of a program that does the opposite of this? One that takes many mp3 files and makes them into a single file? I have several audiobooks that I ripped from CDs, but there are dozens of tracks on each one, and when a book goes through 6 CDs you can imagine how many files that is. I’d love to be able to put them in order and turn them into one file for my Ipod if possible.
MP3 Album Maker http://www.makeitone.net/audio/mp3albummaker.htm will join/split sets of MP3s. Audiobooks are commonly split every 3 minutes or so to make it easy to move between the parts. Songs are short and MP3 players are optimized for that.
Doesn’t Audacity do this too? I’ve always resorted to it for this type of work.
Audacity converts the song to ‘wav’ and then reconverts the ‘wav’ to mp3 or ogg. The process is very slow and the result could lead to loss of quality.
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-Doesn’t support ID3v2 tags. AAAAAIIIIIEEEEEE!!
-Fouls up VBR files encoded with LAME, produces tracks with glitches.
Swear to god I’ve tried every splitting program out there, and they’ve all got issues with LAME VBR files and/or poor tagging support.
Why is this program so big (17MB)?? It makes me quite amazed at what mp3DirectCut can do when the executable is only 53.0KB (!!!) and it’s truly portable. If you already have CUE sheets and know how to edit split points in the CUE sheets, I’d stick with mp3DirectCut.